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Hauppauge WinTV-NOVA-T 500 - Dual Digital Freeview TV tuner

Hauppauge WinTV-NOVA-T 500 - Dual Digital Freeview TV tuner
From HAUPPAUGE

Price: £55.40

Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days
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Product Description

Are you within range of a TNT emitter?  With the TV WinTV-NOVA-T-500 card, receive programmes on your PC with exceptional quality thanks to DVB-T ultra sensitive reception technology.  Installed in front of your computer, you can watch on full screen or in a window.  You also have the choice of pausing the TV programme with the Program Pause function or navigate with the rapid forward or rewind with the Instant Replay function.With the TV WinTV-NOVA-T-500 card, you don't have to hesitate anymore as to which TNT programme to record.  You can programme the recording in MEPG-2 on your PC.  WinTV-Scheduler and EPG 7 Days give you the possibility of programming multiple recordings.  In addition, thanks to the WingSE software that comes with the TV WinTV-NOVA-T-500 card, you can record in the MEPG-2 format as well as in a format that enables you to transfer the recording on your Apple iPod or Sony PSP.  You also benefit from the digital radio reception as well as teletext function.The ergonomic remote control has been conceived to give you easy control of all the new features of the TV and radio of your PC.

Product Details

  • Amazon Sales Rank: #6808 in Consumer Electronics
  • Brand: Hauppauge
  • Model: 289
  • Released on: 2006-08-23
  • Platform: Windows XP
  • Dimensions: 2.20 pounds

Editorial Reviews

Manufacturer's Description
WinTV-NOVA-T-500, the dual digital DVB-T receiver for your PC! WinTV-NOVA-T-500 is a high sensitivity dual DVB-T receiver. Connect a digital TV aerial to the WinTV-NOVA-T-500, and you can watch and record DVB-T digital TV on your PC, in a window or full screen. With the dual digital tuners on WinTV-NOVA-T-500, you can record one digital TV channel while watching another. Or record two digital TV programs at once!

Box Contents

  • WinTV-NOVA-T-500 PCI card with two built-in high sensitivity DVB-T receivers
  • Infra-red remote control transmitter and receiver
  • Software on CD-ROM, including WinTV-Scheduler and WingSE
  • Quick Installation Guide.

    • Customer Reviews

    Excellent card, Windows software poor, works fine in Linux3
    I purchased this card because I wanted to build my own Media centre, and it was on the MythTV compatibility list.
    It works perfectly with MytThV on Linux, just needed a bit of fiddling to get the Low Noise Amplifiers switched on. The remote works fine too.
    I use MythBuntu on my HTPC, a surprisingly good distro,easy to use and set up.
    With the latest version of MythTV , I can even record multiple channels from one multiplex on each tuner. At the moment, I have it set up for four channels max per tuner.

    impressive, only loses a star for the bundled software4
    I bought this to put into an old desktop that I'm rebuilding for a friend to run as a home entertainment system. I have tried it out in an area which according to the Digital TV webpage shouldn't have good quality reception and I've managed to pick up straight away over 30 channels, all incredible quality. I've half a mind to keep the computer myself now!

    As ever with a Hauppauge product, what lets the product down (and means this gets 4 stars, not 5) is the archaic bundled winTV software> Do yourself a favour and download the latest MediaPortal and use that to manage your TV with this PCI card. It will probably take you a short while to figure out how to configure it all, get the EPG running, etc, but its time well invested for a far superior UI. Then you've effectively got your own Windows Media Centre computer system.

    No good for PVR on 2k3, its Let down by driver problems, poor software, and the requirement of an external amp.2
    I bought this product to test out building my own PVR solution.
    I wanted to try it on Windows Home Server (based on Windows 2003 small business edition). There are no drivers for Win2k3! Using the certified drivers for 2000, it causes my system to crash every single day!

    I found I couldn't get any signal from my huge tv aeriel without an external aeriel amplifier, even though the aerial on it's ownt powers my freeview box & tv & dvr-r perfectly

    The software that comes with the card is terrible - the UI looks like it was made for Windows 3.1 and hasn't been updated since, and it's very confusing. Also there doesn't seem to be any support for picking up the EPG off the digital EPG channel, only hauppage's internet software which didn't work, and required an extra web service to run!

    Frustrated I looked into trying it with a Linux setup (MythUbuntu) but I'd have to mess around compiling the driver and them activating the onboard amp :(

    For building your own PVR, buy a Terratec or something else! Happaugge may be the most well known brand for TV card but I would have expected better!