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Posted by Lee H - Fri 20 Oct 2006 12:04
Ooh thats great news as I've got 1 of these myself :)

Nice to see that I can reuse this when Vista comes out and I build a new PC
Posted by Bob Crabtree - Fri 20 Oct 2006 12:21
One disappointment, though - there is no Vista beta software available to download, in the expected place as best as I can see.

Is there somewhere else that Hauppauge squirrel's away its betas?
Posted by Lee H - Fri 20 Oct 2006 12:32
Yes there is actually Bob :)

http://www.hauppauge.com/pages/support/vista.html

There is also a forum for support with the Vista 32 and 64 bit drivers for the cards.

I never venture to their site anymore as I check the forums daily for tips, tricks and updates to their drivers etc :)

I hope this information helps.

Best Regards,
Posted by Bob Crabtree - Fri 20 Oct 2006 15:39
Lee @ SCAN;893706
Yes there is actually Bob :)

http://www.hauppauge.com/pages/support/vista.html

There is also a forum for support with the Vista 32 and 64 bit drivers for the cards.

I never venture to their site anymore as I check the forums daily for tips, tricks and updates to their drivers etc :)

I hope this information helps.

Best Regards,

Lee,

VERY useful - well worth bookmarking - thanks muchly!

On the downside, though, the list of products not supported by Windows Vista betas is topped by, er, well, check out the list below…


WinTV products not yet supported under Vista

Product name
WinTV-NOVA-T 500 WinTV-NOVA-T Stick
WinTV-NEXUS-S
WinTV-HVR-930
WinTV-GO+
WinTV-Radio
Posted by Steve - Sat 21 Oct 2006 13:37
I have one of these in my Media center PC (Shuttle SN21G5, 1GB RAM, GeForce 7300LE, Athlon XP 3200+, MCE 2005). It's pretty good, save a couple of things.

The design of the tuner is such that the tuning hardware is actually connected over USB, like Hauppauge's TV sticks. However, the PCI card has its own VIA USB controller. On leaving S3 standby, the device needs to renumerate, leaving the remote inoperative and the tuners unavailable for 10-20 seconds.

The remote is pretty good, although sometimes goes a bit mental for no apparent reason.

Dual tuning/recording with the T-500 is fairly reliable. Sometimes flakes out, but I blame MCE more than anything.
Posted by Lee H - Sat 21 Oct 2006 13:42
I couldn't speak for the Hauppauge remote as I use the Microsoft hardware kit, but I've not had mine lockup as yet but then again I don't have the system powering down as it's on all the time.

I do like having BBC3 in one window and then FIVE US in another while chatting on MSN :)
Posted by Funkstar - Sat 21 Oct 2006 16:47
Steve
The design of the tuner is such that the tuning hardware is actually connected over USB
If that stil the case with this card? There is no USB sochet on the card and a free USB port isn't as a requirement in the specs.

Or does it include it's own USB chipset and just connect internally to that?
Posted by BigBry - Mon 23 Oct 2006 07:29
No need for a USB port, it's just an internal way of fiddling 2 tuners to 1 PCI slot.
Posted by Funkstar - Mon 23 Oct 2006 09:32
Some dual tuner cards do require a USB port to work. The Fusion HDTV DVB-T Dual for example.

http://www.kustompcs.co.uk/acatalog/info_4338.html

It's good that this one doesn't, less cables etc.

Seen the Nova-T 500 for about £80 is is a cracking price for two tuners.
Posted by BigBry - Tue 24 Oct 2006 07:50
This ones new I believe, I haven't seen any reviews of it yet and it's only £59

http://www.scan.co.uk/Products/ProductInfo.asp?WebProductID=483571
Posted by Funkstar - Tue 24 Oct 2006 11:28
now that is bargain!

i wonder is this would produce less heat that two regular DVB-T tuners? as they are based on the small low powered USB and PCMCIA tuners i would like to think they would. This might cut the ambient heat inside my HTPC. hmmmmm….
Posted by directhex - Tue 24 Oct 2006 12:11
coo, apparently linux support is coming in the next linuxtv release - http://www.linuxtv.org/wiki/index.php/DVB_USB#DiBcom_USB2.0_DVB-T_devices_.28based_on_the_DiB0700.29

tempting…
Posted by Bob Crabtree - Tue 24 Oct 2006 14:34
BigBry
This ones new I believe, I haven't seen any reviews of it yet and it's only £59

http://www.scan.co.uk/Products/ProductInfo.asp?WebProductID=483571

D'oh!

You reminded me that Pinnacle sent me some info about three new PCTV products a good few days ago and that I meant to put this up - which I have done here now.
Posted by Steve - Tue 24 Oct 2006 15:49
Compro have one too, can't remember how much it costs. Still need to write about it. Must get around to it…
Posted by directhex - Tue 24 Oct 2006 16:17
BigBry
This ones new I believe, I haven't seen any reviews of it yet and it's only £59

http://www.scan.co.uk/Products/ProductInfo.asp?WebProductID=483571

no linux support though :'(