Pick my tv tuner

[imported_tiburon]

Im looking for a dual tv tuner, which one do you suggest . I am leaning towards the pvr500MCE. Just a couple qestoins about it, can you use a coax input and a composite input on MCE, and does the MCE remote work for this PVR?

If anyone else has different suggestions id be glad to hear them. I would love to have a tuner card that accepts dvi HDTV from my sattellite but i dont think they make that do they?

 

[jpeyton]

If you're going to use the PVR card with regular analog cable, the coax input goes straight from the wall into your PVR card.

If you have digital cable or satellite, your PVR card no longer acts as the tuner; it merely displays and records the signal it is fed via S-video or composite. In such a setup, you must use an IR blaster to relay the signal from your MCE remote to your digital cable or satellite set top box.

The MCE remote is designed to work with all Hauppauge MCE PVR cards.

And lastly, if you are using digital cable or satellite TV, you really can't make use of the "dual-tuner" function of the PVR-500 because your set top box is still doing to tuning.

ATI's HDTV Wonder will tune HDTV signals off the air and through coax, but I don't think it will decode satellite HDTV signals. It might have an option to allow you to input an HDTV signal with an external tuner, but I'm not sure.

 

[imported_tiburon]

yeah, true enough, but i would to b able to hook up my satwellite with coax, and my ps2 on the composite so i could cature the video if i wanted? thats why i wondered if you could use both