Hauppauge HD PVR with Component In! Available May 1, 2008

[Maxell]

Record your high definition TV programs to your PC, using high quality H.264!
HD PVR
model 1212

HD PVR is the world’s first High-Definition video recorder for making real-time H.264 compressed recordings at resolutions up to 1080i. HD-PVR records component video (YCrCb) from cable TV and satellite set top boxes, with a built-in IR blaster to automatically change TV channels for scheduled recordings. Audio is recorded using AAC or Dolby Digital.

The recording format is AVCHD, which can be used to burn Blu-ray DVD disks. Two hours of HD recordings, recorded at 5 Mbits/sec, can be burnt onto a standard 4.7 GByte DVD-R or DVD-RW disk for playback on a Blu-ray DVD player.

The HD PVRs amazing recording quality allows personal archival of your favorite high definition TV programs from any component video HD set top box. The HD PVR also has standard definition composite and S-Video inputs so you can record your old home video tapes into an AVCHD format for creating Blu-ray DVD recordings.
Features

* Built-in hardware H.264 high definition encoder, for high performance, high quality TV recordings
* Component video input from most high definition cable TV and satellite TV receivers. Optical or stereo audio inputs.
* Record high definition video at up to 1080i resolution, 720p or VGA/D1
* Record at datarates from 1Mbs to 13.5Mbs, constant and Variable Bit Rate
* Blu-ray format AVCHD recordings, so you can burn your TV recordings onto a standard DVD disk (up to 2 hours of video at 5MBits/sec) and playback on Blu-ray DVD players
* Includes HD software video player, so you can playback recordings to your PC screen
* Audio / Video component video loop through to allow HD recording and viewing at the same time
* High Performance Noise Reduction Function
* NTSC,PAL and SECAM Support
* IR receiver for remote control
* IR Blaster to change the TV channels in your set top box


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http://www.hauppauge.com/site/products/hd_pvr.html
Price: $249.00

[iwanttobeabmoviestar]

i want that european add on dvr thing for ps3

[Sylin]

Originally Posted by iwanttobeabmoviestar

i want that european add on dvr thing for ps3

Amen to that!

Hauppauge gets an A for features, but in terms of cosmetics, this product = fail. If I put this next to my PS3, my PS3 would kick it out the window and then slap my momma!

[DarknessBDJM]

I know this is an old thread, but I recently saw a post asking for the best settings for the HD-PVR and it didn't come up in a search.

After you hook up the HD-PVR to your PC, open up graph edit.
Create a new graph.
Add the following Direct Show filters and have them flowing into one another in this order....
Hauppauge HD-PVR Crossbar>Hauppauge Capture Device 0001>Hauppauge HD-PVR Encoder>Filter Dump (choose a random .ts name like dump.ts).

This will allow for more control options.

Right click on the HD-PVR Encoder filter and select filter properties.
Go to the Encoder Development tab and select Advanced No IDR GOP, and set MF Enable Luma to 1 and MF Enable Chroma to 4, hit Apply.
Go to the Video Encoder tab and set Bit Rate mode to Constant, then slide Bit Rate to 13.5/max and Peak Bit Rate to 20.2/max, hit Apply.
Go to the H.264 Encoder tab and make sure to slide the Max Bit Rate tab to 13.5/max, then put your Luma setting at 20 (otherwise the video sharpness/detail levels are dulled), and your Chroma setting at 0 (otherwise colors are over saturated and can produce artifacts. After that set For 2 Channel Audio Sources to AC3, then hit Apply.
Save your graph.
You can then exit Graph Edit
Now you need to power cycle your HD-PVR. I've noticed that doing so at least 12 times yields better picture than even doing it 8 times, I usually go for 16+ times. I do have a 2009 revision as well because my old PVR became buggy and I got a free replacement. I'm not sure if the power cycling that many times is the same for everyone else, but you can always test it out, but you do need to power cycle whenever starting it up or after changing settings.

The main reason for going into Graph Edit is to be able to go into the Encoder Development tab, which is unavailable in the Arcsoft Capture Device settings options. I spent a LOT of time comparing a DVHS Cap bit for bit MPEG-2 source of various programs on different channels (including high end stations like HD-Net and HD Theater) to the same scenes captured with the HD-PVR on various settings (image capture with a still h.264 HD-PVR frame does not yield the same quality image you see in the paused frame, though a paused DVHS Cap frame image captured is of the same quality, so I compare the paused HD-PVR frame to the captured MPEG-2 image). I can say that these settings yielded the best picture results with accurate colors and detail levels and the fewest artifacts.
I'm not really sure about the Video Proc Amp settings you can set when the Arcsoft Capture Device is open or in the HD-PVR Crossbar tab under Graph Edit. I think that deals with how the video looks on the Capture Device and not necessarily the final encoded file.

As far as the output file type settings, that all has to do with what you are playing the files with.