Mediasonic HW150PVR

5 reviews

Apr, 2024

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Consumer review (newegg.com)

Great Little PVR

A wishlist of improvement opportunities: 1. 30-second FF and RW option would be awesome. 2. Add networking capability to stream MTS files elsewhere (but I have a work-around... see below). 3. As others have stated, embed the show title in the recorded...

1. Green-- uses little power (<10W on; <0.8W standby). I have 3 units-- two of them have 1GB USB powered drives that energize only when the unit is on ; 2. Very active and responsive manufacturer support in the forums ; 3. For less than $100...

Zilch, so far

Oct, 2013

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Consumer review (newegg.com)

Not for Sissies

Makes Cable-Cutting a valuable pass-time. If you're a Honey Boo Boo fan, this PVR is way out of your league.

Does what it's supposed to do, if you take the time to develop a "feel" for it. Best OTA DVR on the market. Manufacturer releases firmware updates. Update the firmware before even attempting to use it. Seems resources for channel skip/delete and EPG...

Seems the TV industries don't want us recording OTA like we did in the VCR days. They want you to pay for what was once free. Thus, the box exists in a hostile world, and I applaud Mediasonic for this valuable device

Sep, 2013

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Consumer review (newegg.com)

Pretty good

For the price it's a great little box.

All functions work as described

Output looks like SD, no matter what settings or cable I use. Recordings are uncompressed, about 5-6 GB per hour. Remote buttons are not very intuitive (for example to playback a recording press "USB") but you get used to it

Sep, 2013

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Consumer review (newegg.com)

Great service/great product

might try this as a PVR attached to a digital tv as well

Ordered on Tuesday, received on Thursday after shipping from NJ and finding its way to southwestern Ontario. Unit was extremely easy to set up and does everything as advertised. This is attached to an "analog" tv & output is first rate. 3 other TV's...

none

Aug, 2013

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Consumer review (newegg.com)

Not for Clear Channel Cable - Only Antenna Reception

Since virtually any TV you would buy today has both OTA and clear signal cable capability, I can only surmise this box uses a really old digital tuner chip. I needed to view in-the-clear channels off my cable system, which it couldn't, so I returned...

Small, low cost, PVR capability

This box will not work with any "clear" channels broadcast over a cable, which is what I bought it for. Works with antenna input only (ATSC). Does NOT have a QAM tuner to receive cable signals that a normal TV would. Don't buy this if you plan to...

Aug, 2013

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