The PVR-150 has software to allow programming from. Notice I had to add the digital sub-channel as part of the normal channel for wintv-2000. Here is a screen shot of the channel config for wintv-2000. Here is a screen shot of the blaster config that I settled in on: It was a bit of a trick to get the ir blaster configured so that WINTV-2000 could change the channels reliably on the RCA DTA800. So I went to the local Wal-Mart and picked up an RCA DTA800 converter box. The government is sponsoring a program to get you 2 $40 credits toward the purchase of those. So I decided to try hooking up an over-the-air digital to analog converter to the PVR-150. I really didn't want to upgrade the whole computer to just be able to continue doing what I was doing.

In fact, the system I am using is only a Celeron 1Ghz machine. It doesn't take much of a computer system for this to work well. It works quite well, since there is on-board hardware support for the digital conversion. So this presented a problem, since the PVR-150 only records analog. Amanda and I watch the recordings on our computers. I access it with VNC and simply record shows onto a drive that is shared across our LAN. I don't have that computer hooked up to a monitor or a tv. I don't use the latter in the traditional PVR way. I have a couple of PVRs: a ReplayTV 2000 and a computer system I set up with a Hauppauge PVR-150 tv capture card. I'm one of the few people left that doesn't have cable or satellite and still relies on over-the-air tv. So, this whole digital tv switchover has caused me to do some work.

Wintv pvr 150 software