Re: Aditional TV Turner recommendation

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Hauppauge now sells a daughter board for the PVR-500 that will let you hook
up two STB via s-video or composite. They have it on there web site for
$14.95. Here is the link.
http://registration.hauppauge.com/webstore/hardware.asp#av_cable

Nathan

"Bob [MVP]" <bob@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Oscar,
>
> I agree with Steve that two identical tuners would be
> the best. The "next best" would be to get a second
> tuner from the same MFGR. So adding a PVR-150 might be
> an acceptable, more cost-effective compromise.
>
> And I'd stay away from the PVR-500, because as you noted
> it does NOT support two STBs - poor design from Hauppauge.
>
> There are other makes of dual-tuner cards available. But
> if you have a spare PCI slot, your most cost-effective
> option would be to just add another single-tuner card.
>
> --
> -Bob
> _______________________________
> Microsoft MVP
> Windows XP Media Center Edition
> http://www.microsoft.com/ehome
>
>
> "Steve Punter" <punter1445@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:2P-dnUI-A4WjDtbfRVn-tA@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> Actually, it isn't so much safety that might make getting a different
>> tuner card a problem, but rather your sensibilities. If one of your 2
>> tuner cards is superior to the other, you'd obviously want to ensure that
>> was used most often to record shows. I have no knowledge of how MCE
>> chooses which card to record from, and it might not be possible to set
>> it.
>>
>> Even if you were able to do define which card was used primarily you
>> would still be disappointed when 2 shows had to be recorded
>> simultaneously. One of your recordings would be inferior to the other. It
>> really depends upon how sensitive you are to this.
>>
>> If it were me, I would make sure that both the tuner cards were the same,
>> regardless of which one I chose. In fact, my MCE2005 machine has two
>> identical Hauppauge PVR-150MCE cards, though only because I built it form
>> the ground up that way.
>> ---
>> Steve Punter
>> http://www.arcx.com/sites


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