Hauppage PVR-500 question

[nosebreaker]

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.

[tschak909]

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

[totallymaxed]

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

[seth]

 
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

[nosebreaker]

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.

[totallymaxed]

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

[Afkpuz]

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.