[RodS]

Yesterday I bought my first PVR (Hauppauge 150), and while I haven't even begun to install it yet, already my head is spinning from all the reading I've done about driver patches, registry patches, third-party utils etc etc.

My PC setup:

Asus TUSL2 motherboard
Intel P3-S 1.2GHz
512MB RAM
ATI Radeon 9800 Pro (non-AIW)
Win2000 SP4
DirectX 9.0C

My requirements from the PVR-150 are fairly basic: viewing of live TV (analog cable) and VHS tapes, recording from these two sources, and occasional scheduled recording.

Considering these basic needs, am I better off just sticking with Hauppauge's drivers and WinTV2000? At least from posts in this forum, it seems that with every BTV driver update, some people get a given problem fixed and others don't -- or a new problem altogether gets created. I've been down this road before with other PC hardware and would like to avoid the same experience.

Thanks,
Rod