Re: Hauppage PVR-500 dual tuner or not?

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From: SHS (shs_at_nowhere.com)
Date: 02/03/05 

Date: Wed, 2 Feb 2005 21:18:09 -0500

> If you have no cable boxes, the PVR will get signal from the single coax
> input and use it for both tuners (other coax is for FM radio). This will let
> you tune one channel and record another, but only the "out of the wall"
> analog cable channels - no decoder boxes in the line.
Ture

> If you have one cable box, then you can only use one tuner. You cannot
> connect the cable box to the SVideo input and analog cable to the coax input
> since MCE needs BOTH tuners to have the exact same channel lineup. You
> cannot record one channel and watch another with this setup.
Part this not ture being SageTV, GR-PVR, BeyondTV and few other can do this with same channel lineup with Multi-Input Source like
below
BOTH Tuners (Trick is to setup each receiver on diff tuner output channel that where 3/4 switch come in handly)
Setup 1st receiver using Tuner Output and setup the 2nd receiver using S/Video or Composite.
I have setup (2) Dishnetwork DP301 receivers with one receiver using S/Video and other receiver using Tuner output or I can Tuner
output all way.
unlike MCE which doesn't allow switching to auxiliary video inputs so your SOL unless you get REAL PVR app that dose way more then
MCE.
What I don't know if MCE will allow to setup Tuner Cable or Sat for from diff channel like said with BOTH Tuners Trick above.

> If you get two cable boxes as required by MCE to use dual tuners, you will
> have nowhere to plug the second box into the PVR-500 card.
Not ture but that depend on receiver box on weather or not it has 3/4 channel switch.

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