Ugh.. ok picked up the hauppage 1250 instead, no stock on 2250 - on order (will not be in before world cup starts and wanted to start recording .. anyways)
Loaded drivers and WinTV software. I'm in Canada so I chose a US zip code (doesn't matter which one - just one so I could continue with channel setup) and picked ATSC digital to scan OTA with my old style aerial antenna (coax hooked into the card). Scanned nicely and picked up a few channels except the one I wanted CBC for the World Cup coverage -- the CBC signal was weak and choppy but viewable through my Tivax box to my old CRT tv.
Of the channels I get, pictures are great. Slightly choppy on one channel but I think that's because I am not using a video card (just using the on board graphics)
I decided to use WinTV because it could record to MPG files right away. The card won't pick up channels that were registering weak on my Tivax signal strength of of 5 to 10. The only problem I'm having now is getting the signal monitor to work. It says "Did not find supported ATSC/DVB demodulator, or device is not powered on HCWSigMon." There was someones solution here I have to check out
http://www.hauppauge.co.uk/forum/sh...ngth-Indicator-v.28026-DOES-NOT-WORK-HVR-2250
I suppose if I got a graphics card, that it would clean up any hesitations in the video. Also if I had the 2250 instead it is hardware encoding as opposed to the 1250's software encoding which would also speed things up.
I'll have to climb my antenna and manually move my broken rotator antenna to try to pull in a good CBC signal. All in all though looking good.
I'm just going to throw this question out there ... Should I keep the Hauppage 2250 on order and buy it, or cancel that and purchase a good video card instead? - to fix the small jerky video on one channel - maybe recording the show with a buffer will erase any choppiness?