Hauppauge card with PAL analog input

[TioSolid]

Hi, is there any hauppauge card that currently supports PAL input from analog (coax)? Im planning to buy a PVR-150 card, but there are mixed opinions about this card.. One says that I can registry patch to enable my card to use PAL (even if I have a NTSC model) and other says that I need a PVR-150 PAL model.

So, witch card should I choose? I tried searching online for a PAL card in the US (amazon and ebay) but I cant find one

Any help or other hauppauge card suggestions are really appreciated

[edDV]

As far as I know Hauppauge sells separate cards to NTSC and PAL markets. You should call and ask if they have a PAL-M model for Brazil. Check to see if there is a Brazil distributor. US cards will not decode PAL-M and will display as noisy monochrome.

[TioSolid]

I tried looking for a hauppauge card here in brazil but no luck ;/

Does anyone recommend a place I can buy a PAL Hauppauge card in the US?

[edDV]

I tried looking for a hauppauge card here in brazil but no luck ;/

Does anyone recommend a place I can buy a PAL Hauppauge card in the US?

They don't sell PAL cards in the USA.

Their PAL cards would be for Euro PAL (50Hz, 4.43MHz subcarier) so would not work for PAL-M (60Hz, 3.58 subcarrier).

[TioSolid]

Thanks for your reply. But wouldn´t be possible for a NTSC card to decode a PAL stream using some kind of software?

[edDV]

Thanks for your reply. But wouldn´t be possible for a NTSC card to decode a PAL stream using some kind of software?

No. Hauppauge does this on purpose. They want to separate marketing regions.

PAL-M is a unique standard in the world.

It is possible to use a device like the HD-PVR with a separate PAL-M decoder where the connection is analog component YPbPr. If your TV or cable set top box exports decoded analog component YPbPr, then there is no difference NTSC vs. PAL.
http://www.hauppauge.com/site/products/data_hdpvr.html

[TioSolid]

Well, the unique solution I have right now is paying for cable TV since it set-up-box comes with a component output and I can either select PAL or NTSC for that.

Is there any other brand I can choose that support PAL, is not shitty like the Pixelview cards and can be bought in the US?

[edDV]

Well, the unique solution I have right now is paying for cable TV since it set-up-box comes with a component output and I can either select PAL or NTSC for that.

Is there any other brand I can choose that support PAL, is not shitty like the Pixelview cards and can be bought in the US?

If the cable box converts PAL-M to NTSC, then any composite or S-Video NTSC product should work. Why then convert from PAL-M? I don't understand what you want to do.

[TioSolid]

Its because our air TV (open) is PAL-M

Im planning to use cable TV soon, but having support for air TV is a must since if I cancel my contract with the cable provider my tv-card will become useless.

[edDV]

Its because our air TV (open) is PAL-M

Im planning to use cable TV soon, but having support for air TV is a must since if I cancel my contract with the cable provider my tv-card will become useless.

Well then you should look to domestic Brazil solutions. Some older simple BrookeTree (BT) based tuner/capture cards support PAL-M but those are less available here since we are converting to all digital broadcast. You will find those older cards in the used market.