Re: record one channel while watching another

Thank You ALL,,,
Armed with this knowledge, I will be calling the company and really stick it
to em. Don't think I'll get a refund or an exchange since I had it for a
while. But I'm gonna speak my mind after I let them explain how to get dual
signals from a single signal source. Also since this tuner will be probably
flying out the window sometime soon,,, ANYBODY WANNA BUY A TUNER CARD. LOL.

I will look into the NTV since it sounds promising.

Ill post the out come here. Thanks again ppl



"Peter Near [MCE MVP]" wrote:

> Unfortunately, the Hauppauge PVR-500 is not the best card for your
> situation.
>
> Analog cable / antenna:
> Uses the analog tuners on the card to tune into a signal.
>
> Digital cable / satellite:
> Your cable tv provider scrambles the signal, which makes it impossible
> for the Hauppauge card to use its internal tuner. They have mandated
> that you must use their set-top-box to decode the signal, one channel at
> a time. Once decoded, you can feed this single channel into the tuner
> card to be captured to your MCE machine. Each channel you want to watch
> requires its own set-top-box. That is a limitation of your cable TV
> provider.
>
> The best setup:
> Plug each STB into a tuner card using SVideo and RCA audio cables.
>
> The rub:
> The hauppauge PVR-500, while it is a dual tuner card, does not have sual
> inputs for STBs. Bad design on their part. More info here:
> http://www.thenears.com/?p=102
>
> What you can do about it:
> Get two STBs and pay your cable company the extra fee they charge you
> for doing so. Figure out how to connect that to your tuner card - some
> people have put one STB on coax and the other on Svideo. Better yet,
> buy the daughtercard for the Hauppage PVR500 mentioned in the link above
> and connect the STBs that way. If it were me and I had the option, I'd
> return the PVR-500 and get either two single-tuner cards (like the
> PVR-150) or a single dual-tuner card with dual STB inputs (like the eVGA
> NVTV).
>
> Light at the end of the tunnel:
> The FCC has mandated that cable companies allow subscribers access to
> their TV programming without an STB. This access is known as
> "CableCard" and will allow you to bypass the STB. Rumor has it that
> this might be supported in future versions of MCE.
> http://www.ehomeupgrade.com/entry/672/my_interview_with
>
> Not what you wanted to hear I'm sure, but I hope you appreciate the
> honesty. The card you bought simply doesn't do what you want.
>
> Pete
>
>
> three3peat wrote:
> > Thanks for the responses guys,,, I just ran the setup again and there was a
> > mention of set top boxes. So let me get this straight ,,, I have to get
> > another STB put a splitter on my tuner and connect two boxes to it in order
> > for the dual tuner to split the signals.
> >
> > "JW" wrote:
> >
> >
> >>Yes what they say is true if you are using an antenna or a direct cable feed
> >>to the tuner card then the 2 tuners in the card can each select a different
> >>channel.
> >>However there is no way to get two different program signals out of a single
> >>STB unless the STB also has two tuners and 2 different S-Video and audio out
> >>connections.
> >>
> >>"three3peat" <three3peat@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> >>news:48BAA7E4-5A32-498B-8735-4600B2A772A0@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >>
> >>>Hi,
> >>>Martin Kirk: Well to be honest if thats true about needing 2 set top
> >>>boxes,then MCE 2005 kinda blows. Heres why
> >>>
> >>>Watch and record up to three different shows at the same time: Windows XP
> >>>Media Center Edition now features dual tuner support and adds support for
> >>>a
> >>>3rd over-the-air local DTV/HDTV tuner, so you can watch and record up to
> >>>three different shows at the same time
> >>>
> >>>This is what they boast and at no time saying you need 2 set top boxes. I
> >>>do
> >>>know that the specs from the tuner card I have (
> >>>http://hauppage.com/Pages/products/data_pvr500mce.html)
> >>>says the splitter is internal .
> >>>
> >>>And this is what the tuner company says
> >>>
> >>>For Windows XP Media Center Edition users:
> >>>
> >>>Watch TV with the MyTV button on MCE
> >>>
> >>>Watch one TV show while recording another to disk using the
> >>>WinTV-PVR-500's
> >>>built in dual hardware MPEG encoders.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>Record two TV shows at once
> >>>
> >>>So now I'm really confused
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>"Martin Kirk" wrote:
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>>[A quick caveat that I am in the UK, and my experience of US cable TV is
> >>>>a
> >>>>little sketchy.]
> >>>>
> >>>>Do you use the IR senders to allow MCE to change channel on the set top
> >>>>box?
> >>>>Do you have the set top box connected to the MCE system with a single
> >>>>cable
> >>>>and a splitter? If so, I suspect that your problem is that you are
> >>>>feeding a
> >>>>dual channel tuner with a single source. Here in the UK standard set top
> >>>>boxes are only able to output a single channel. I would need a second set
> >>>>top
> >>>>box to enable dual channel recording.
> >>
> >>
> >>
>
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