DVBLink for HDPVR - thr answer to all our HD prayers?

well here it is:

http://dvblogic.com/hdpvr.php

DVBlink, a really nice piece of kit. This is a software application that will work alongside your HDPVR.

what this does is install virtual satellite tuners (4 of them) on your PC. W7MCV thinks these are physical tuners and works as it should with any other physical satellite adapter, pretty impressive stuff.

So your Sky HD is connected to the HD PVR -> USB to PC ->The DVBlink tuner grabs the signal -> pipes it into W7MC retaining Full quality & 5.1 sound

Now, I would recommend reading up on the DVBlink products, there was a little learning curve for me, but the setup & install is fairly simple to be honest, ahem, once its done right!

System requirements:

Windows Vista with TV Pack or Windows 7 (32 and 64 bit)

Hauppauge HD PVR

Supported clients:

Windows Vista with TV Pack or Windows 7 Media Center

Windows Media Center Extenders

Hardware and software UPNP clients (Sony PlayStation 3, Power DVD 9, Nero ShowTime 4 and others)

Features:

High-Definition H.264 Video with AC3 5.1 Dolby Digital Sound

Set-top box control from Media Center using HD-PVR's integrated IR Blaster, any MCE-compatible IR blaster or the firestb application

Set-top box remote control key learning (requires a MCE-Compatible IR Receiver)

Multiple tuner support

Guide a la Carte: per channel selection of EPG information source – xmltv listings or native Media Center Guide

UPNP Server to stream live TV to UPNP-enabled clients

Easy-to-use Windows Media Center channel synchronization wizard

Ok, so let install this and get it up & running!

The readme for install is ok, just be sure to follow the steps exactly & reboot when prompted.

Current version is HDPVR 2.0 Beta 1 at time of writing.

ok, so I got my 4 tuners setup in media centre, then fire up the Source Configuration

This will walk you thru the setup of your TV provider & obtain EPG listings.

Please note I am based in Cork, Ireland so the listings for Sky + were not 100% accurate but were good enough to get up & running, I will go into depth on how to fix this later - not a free option unfortunately.

Ok, so this software was fairly easy to setup, I now have all my channels listed (kind of!) in the EPG, the Sky HD signal is viewable thru W7MC - nice!

uh oh - how do I change channels? read next post......