Ive also emailed dvico about their fusion 5 as it seems as it has an analoge tuner as well. Am I correct then if I just purchase a fusion 5 i wouldnt need another 150?
Sorry if this has been asked already Here’s the short answer. You must distinguish between a plain Windows XP box and a Windows Media Center box. In a plain WinXP, the analog and HD tuners of the Fusion 5 will work In a Windows MCE, only the HD tuner of the Fusion 5 will work and then only if you also have a separate analog tuner like the Hauppauge 150 present. The reason for this is that Microsoft designed WMCE so that it will accept only analog tuners that did hardware MPEG encoding. The difference between an hardware encoder analog tuner and a software encoder is that the video transcoding in a hardware encoder is performed by the tuner card itself instead of by the CPU where a software encoder is employed. By relieveing the CPU of encoding, WMCE was more likely to perform better. The Fusion 5’s analog tuner is a software encoder, so it doesn’t work in WMCE. So, if you intend to use WMCE, you will need the Hauppauge 150 alongside the Fusion 5. If you will use WinXP, then the Fusion
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