Hauppauge WinTV-DCR-2650 Dual Tuner Digital CableCARD Receiver $59.99 After Rebate + Free Shipping (Starts at 3PM PST)

whoa... is this good?

Yes it is a good deal... if you are ready to build a htpc

personally a fan of the network based tuners (HDHomeRun) but not a bad price if it works as well as the Prime does.

Great for HTPC ( better than TIVO DVRs)

I bought one around Black Friday and got the rebate back almost two weeks ago.

How well would this wrk with an external HDD and a Raspberry Pi?

Quote from hightop32 : personally a fan of the network based tuners (HDHomeRun) but not a bad price if it works as well as the Prime does.

I agree. I own this and it works great but I may retire it for a HDHomeRun Prime. The networked tuners just have more uses like with multiple PC's, smartphones and tablets, etc. in the same home.

I paid $10 less than the current offer around Black Friday. I don't know why but then the unit wasn't advertised with a MCE remote included but it does have one. It looks like NewEgg still hasn't included the remote in the description.

UPDATE 2/16/03: Check showed up today!

Quote from Bosnoval : I paid $10 less than the current offer around Black Friday. I don't know why but then the unit wasn't advertised with a MCE remote included but it does have one. It looks like NewEgg still hasn't included the remote in the description.

Be careful. I have yet to receive my $40 rebate from the November deal and when I email the address printed on the form (rebates @ hauppauge . com ) I get a bounce back ( 551 5.1.1 user does not exist ).

Quote from Myst3ryx : How well would this wrk with an external HDD and a Raspberry Pi?

Read about MythTV on a Raspberry Pi here [mythtv.org].

Quote : The Raspberry Pi does not have sufficient CPU power for software decoding, and MythTV does not currently support the hardware video decoder. This device will not be usable directly as a native mythfrontend until this requirement and other memory consumption concerns have been met.

If your cable company has flagged channels as copy-once, then you can only watch and record those channels using Windows Media Center. Time Warner Cable flags everything but local channels as copy-once.

Deal is LIVE now.