Hauppauge Colossus HD PVR Officially Announced
At CES today Hauppauge officially announced their new Colossus High Definition H.264 Video Recorder. It is similiar to their existing USB HD PVR but is an internal PCI-E card and includes unencrypted HDMI up to 1080i.
In the same press release SageTV announced support for the Colossus in SageTV 7.x. We hope to have a hands on with the Colossus while at CES so if you have any questions please leave a comment.
Is this a dual tuner? What
Is this a dual tuner? What are the input and output connections?
Pricing??
Thanks!
How is the reliability of
How is the reliability of this one compared to the HD-PVR?
How does it handle resolution changes?
How does it handle audio stream changes?
How quickly can it tune a channel?
How quickly does it start recording, once it receives a signal? The HD-PVR needed about a 4000ms delay setting in SageTV in order to properly start recording.
Sorry, meant to include that.
Sorry, meant to include that. The Colossus will have a MSRP of $159 and will be available late January 2011.
VINYLFREAK4 it not a dual
VINYLFREAK4 it not a dual tuner see spec here
http://www.shspvr.com/smf/index.php?topic=12325.0
George Schmauch
How is the reliability of this one compared to the HD-PVR?
This should far more reliability then USB model
How does it handle resolution changes?
That depins on what you are ref to
How does it handle audio stream changes?
That depins on what you are ref to
How quickly can it tune a channel?
Just like all other Hauppauge Product with onboard IR Blaster
SHSPVR wrote:How does it
[quote=SHSPVR]How does it handle resolution changes? That depins on what you are ref to [/quote] The HD-PVR has issues if it’s recording something and the resolution changed. The “lock your STB to 720 or 1080” fix is what I’m getting at here. [quote=SHSPVR]How does it handle audio stream changes? That depins on what you are ref to[/quote] The HD-PVR had to stop and restart when the audio stream changed. If the audio stream wasn’t sent perfectly by the broadcaster, it also tended to lock up. The “use analog audio if you want reliability” fix is what I’m getting at with this one. [quote=SHSPVR]How quickly can it tune a channel? Just like all other Hauppauge Product with onboard IR Blaster[/quote] I should have deleted this question. My next one about how long it takes for the Colossus to begin recording was what I was getting at. The HD-PVR has issues at the beginning of recordings, which is why we needed to set it to wait 4000ms before recording. SageTV even added a config property just because of this issue. This leads to the beginning of shows being missed. As long as I have your attention, how extensive has the testing been with Dish Network? That still seems to be the most problematic provider, while DirecTV tends to be the most reliable.
skirge01 wrote:
The HD-PVR
[quote=skirge01]The HD-PVR has issues if it’s recording something and the resolution changed. The “lock your STB to 720 or 1080” fix is what I’m getting at here.[/quote]
There no way round that problem with auto 720p/1080i swiching that why you have lock down the stb to one rez becuases broadcaster doing it so there for the encoder can’t deal with it in real time which it wasn’t made to do in frist place and can’t done any way reliability.
So keep that in mind that broadcaster only steam video which they mix bag of rez and hardware Decoder can deal with thoses video in real time just not hardware Encoder that we get.
Oh there nothing you can about the bad digital audio steam from other input you see analog has auto error correction build in where digital audio dosen’t.
I heard that some people need that high delay time before recording thing in sagetv but I don’t know what the cuases it there are just to min possable as why that happing to small number of people.
As for Dishnetwork I had it for very long time and I didn’t have any major problem it how ever I didn’t use the on IR Blaster I all ready had a USB-UIRT becuases I also had a TWC stb box in mix with SageTV and few other tuner input air, analog cable, qam, atsc.
Now that I move it going be only DirecTV due where I move to
Thanks for the link.
Thanks for the link.
Will the driver support two
Will the driver support two or more cards natively in windows media Center?
Thanks,
PJ
pjto wrote:
Will the driver
[quote=pjto]
Will the driver support two or more cards natively in windows media Center?
Thanks,
PJ
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I could be wrong but I don’t believe that will be supported initially. I’ll be able to give you a definite answer tomorrow or Saturday.
I can give one rigth now yes
I can give one rigth now yes driver will support two or more cards or sagetv would be unhappy camper if didn’t hehe.
For SageTV it has never been
For SageTV it has never been limited to a single HD PVR like it is for Windows Media Center. Can you confirm you are refering to Windows Media Center as that was the original question.
Windows Media Center will
Windows Media Center will most likey be limited as USB model which not a device driver problem
Keep in mind that MS dosen’t make things eazy like SageTV.
Can we have 2 of them in the
Can we have 2 of them in the same machine?
Won’t the be any heat problems with such an internal card?
If this works great with MCE, this will be a fabulous product.
Chasseur wrote:
Can we have 2
[quote=Chasseur]
Can we have 2 of them in the same machine?
Won’t the be any heat problems with such an internal card?
If this works great with MCE, this will be a fabulous product.
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I don’t believe heat will be an issue. Since the Colossus is a full height card I expect it will be installed in chassis with adequate airflow.
Good news and I’m glad they
Good news and I’m glad they have this coming. I’ve always wanted a PCI-e version in order to reduce the # of boxes I have. I’ve still got lockup problems on my 2 HD-PVRs though, so, I won’t be buying one until I see the reliability has been solved. The HD-PVR has been the single most stressful part in my system but I really have no other options so I am stuck with it.
After meeting with Hauppauge
After meeting with Hauppauge I believe the lockup problem will no longer exist. It is my understanding that the lockups were largely due to the chip used on the HD PVR combined with the IR design. The Colossus uses a different chip and the PCI-E allows for more control. I’ll hopefully be able to test that very soon.
mikinho wrote:
After meeting
[quote=mikinho]
After meeting with Hauppauge I believe the lockup problem will no longer exist. It is my understanding that the lockups were largely due to the chip used on the HD PVR combined with the IR design. The Colossus uses a different chip and the PCI-E allows for more control. I’ll hopefully be able to test that very soon.
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The $160 dollar question: Since Hauppauge has admitted bugs with the HD-PVR, will Hauppauge let us trade in our HD-PVR for the Colossus? Or at a minimum, give us credit towards the Colossus?
The retail value of the HD-PVR was $250 which most of us paid that price.
Looking forward to seeing the
Looking forward to seeing the reliability of this. At least it will eliminate the hassle of isolating your HD-PVR from other USB devices.