Lets say the following scenario:
Bill wants to watch sports on a media director in one room, Jill wants to watch soaps on a media director in another. If I have the dual-input PVR-500 can they both watch live tv at the same time? I ask because I noticed that the PVR-500 doesn't appear to have dual sound outputs.
The PVR-500 has dual tuner inputs for coax, but nothing else. If you're dealing with multiple cable boxes, you'll need to get multiple discrete tuner cards.
-Thom
Quote from: nosebreaker on November 17, 2008, 08:00:30 PM
Lets say the following scenario:
Bill wants to watch sports on a media director in one room, Jill wants to watch soaps on a media director in another. If I have the dual-input PVR-500 can they both watch live tv at the same time? I ask because I noticed that the PVR-500 doesn't appear to have dual sound outputs.
We us PVR-500 to capture & encode 2 sources of analog composite video & Stereo Audio simultaneously (you need the PCI blanking plate with the 2nd analog inputs connected back to the PVR-500's on-card header). This allows us to stream those sources simultaneously and independantly.
Andrew
:)
That is what I was thinking. You just have to add the daughter card, and plug it into the 2nd header.
I was actually thinking that I would get 2 of these cards to replace my 2 pvr150 cards. I am hopeful that eventually they will drop in price now that the analog phase out here in the states is impending in February.
But I am glad someone remembered that.
Regards,
Seth
So you can watch 2 separate channels on the analog card? Say I were to have basic analog cable TV, I could in theory record 2 different channels (with audio) then if I had 2 cable boxes? I presume with basic cable you could do that with just one card.
Quote from: nosebreaker on November 18, 2008, 09:28:28 PM
So you can watch 2 separate channels on the analog card? Say I were to have basic analog cable TV, I could in theory record 2 different channels (with audio) then if I had 2 cable boxes? I presume with basic cable you could do that with just one card.
If you are planning to use the SD analog capture on the pvr-500 to capture video from two independent sources (ie two Sat/Cable boxes) then yes you would have two independent streams.
Andrew
Yea, I use the pvr-500 and it definitely records both audio streams separately. If it didn't, you'd be recording shows without audio. I'm pretty sure every card advertised as dual-tuner will do this.