dschur:

- The channels work just fine over extenders.

The channels will only work on extenders that can display HD (i.e. the 360), they do NOT work on the other extenders. (i.e. Linksys). I know because I have one.

Thanks!

So I assume that I just follow the instructions for installing HDHomeRun on a MCE 2005 box substituting Vista Drivers and Vista apps (tuner priority) and I am ready to go?

Are dschur are you actually using HDHomeRun over the network (connected to your router) or are connecting it directly to your Vista machine?  If directly to your machine how do you go about doing that.  My appologies for all the newbee questions.

Thx

My HDHR is on a network.

 

If you wanted to connect it directly, you would use a crossover cable to the NIC card in the MCE.

what is the latest on deal?  is qam supported

Pardon a newbie question. I haven't messed with HD recording before, but this looks like a great solution to add this feature to my MCE '05 box via Comcast. An analog one hour recording runs about 3.5GB. What's the average size of an HD one hour recording? I wanna make sure I have enough drive space to make this practical.

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I have my quality set at the highest level for recording, and depending on how much your cable company is compressing your signal, I saw yesterday that a half hour of hidef for me is about 3 gb, and an hour is 6 gb. Which is about the same as my analog recordings.

baldbear:

I have my quality set at the highest level for recording, and depending on how much your cable company is compressing your signal, I saw yesterday that a half hour of hidef for me is about 3 gb, and an hour is 6 gb. Which is about the same as my analog recordings.

Hmm. That's odd. I also have my quality level set for "Best", yet an hour of analog is only 3 and a half gigs. Wonder why the difference.

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I'm sure the difference is due to the mpeg encoder that is on you Analog card. I use a Hauppage 250 and a 150 MCE model (which sucks in comparison to the old 250 card).

Baldbear nailed it -- it's due to your analog tuner enncoding.  Since the HD recordings should just be captured MPEG2 streams (no re-encoding) the sizes are relatively the same and around 5-7GB for me.  I have noticed that OTA recordings are about 1-2 GB more for an hour recording than what comes over Comcast, due to their compression.

Just pick up one of these 500gb SATA 300 drives at NewEgg for $139 and you'll be set:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?ATT=22144016&CMP=AFC-SlickDeals&Item=N82E16822144016

I'm using a 150 MCE also (NVidia Purevideo decoder) . Are you saying you get a better quality (file size) recording from the 250?

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slightlyseven:

Baldbear nailed it -- it's due to your analog tuner enncoding.  Since the HD recordings should just be captured MPEG2 streams (no re-encoding) the sizes are relatively the same and around 5-7GB for me.  I have noticed that OTA recordings are about 1-2 GB more for an hour recording than what comes over Comcast, due to their compression.

Just pick up one of these 500gb SATA 300 drives at NewEgg for $139 and you'll be set:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?ATT=22144016&CMP=AFC-SlickDeals&Item=N82E16822144016

Well, I'm still not completely clear on why my 150 MCE analog recordings are about half the size of what Baldbear is getting, but assuming an HD recording is gonna run an average of 6 gigs, I should be ok adding another Seagate 320 SATA 300 drive to the one I already have and running 'em in RAID 0.

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bikeboy:

what is the latest on deal?  is qam supported

Dude - really - look at the thread title.

My analogs run about 3.2gb per hour.  It's not so much a question of size as quality -- my old 250 was better than the 150 I am using now.  If you want big files, I'm pretty sure you can edit the registry values in MCE to record at higher bitrates.  I don't know that you'll gain much noticible difference.  I didn't, though it's been a while since I tried.

slightlyseven:

My analogs run about 3.2gb per hour.  It's not so much a question of size as quality -- my old 250 was better than the 150 I am using now.  If you want big files, I'm pretty sure you can edit the registry values in MCE to record at higher bitrates.  I don't know that you'll gain much noticible difference.  I didn't, though it's been a while since I tried.

Ahh, ok. So when Baldbear says

Baldbear:

I saw yesterday that a half hour of hidef for me is about 3 gb, and an hour is 6 gb. Which is about the same as my analog recordings.

he probably edited his registry values to get the higher analog bitrate. Having never seen anything better than what I have now, it's hard to say if I'm missing anything quality-wise with the 150.

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In regards to getting HDHomeRun working with QAM could someone point me in the direction of a set of instructions that will work with Vista?  Thx!