Product Description

WINTV NOVA-T 500 INC REMOTE AND DRIVERS UK

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #24138 in Consumer Electronics
• Brand: Hauppauge
• Model: 289
• Released on: 2006-08-23
• Dimensions: .0" h x .0" w x .0" l, .71 pounds

Features

• WinTV-NOVA-T-500

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!

Customer Reviews

Finally - a DVB card that can handle poor TV signals
I've had a media center setup for a year or so (initially under MCE2005 and now vista), but whereas my TV has been able to decode Freeview with no problems, most TV tuner cards for PCs are so sensitive that without a perfect signal the media center loses reception resulting in a blue screen.

this is the third DVB tuner I've tried (both PCI and USB) and it works brilliantly - perfect, faultless reception and not a blue screen in sight (having a dual TV card rather than two singles also seems to help - possibly requiring less signal)?

Highly recommended, and with MS Vista it's brilliant if you want an integrated system for TV, Photos, Video and Music.

Fantastic Product
I built my own media centre. All was going well except the TV tuner. I had bought the Compro t-750 and it is unbeliveably useless. I sent it back and bought the this one from Hauppauge and it works likes a dream, wish I had bought this first, would have had more hair left!!
I use it with MCE 2005 and only use the supplied drivers. Recording is easy and clear, even when recording on both channels and watching back a recording, whilst being recorded does not cause it to worry. Does not like poor signals, booster fixed this. Otherwise, this is the card for me, Great!!

Fantastic picture quality - software could be better....
Finally thought I`d post my first ever review on Amazon, after using this
card for a few weeks now.

Installation is a breeze, but the WinTV2000 software instructions are poor
when it comes to being able to record one tuner whilst watching another.
This is actually done by setting the Scheduler to `Background recording`
for the tuner to record, and then just starting up a seperate session of
WinTV2000 to watch the programme you want to watch.

As far as converting to DVD goes, I`ve just about messed with every
combination of post-capture software there is, and I can say that the
easiest and quickest method of getting the captured .mpg file to DVD is
to throw it at a programme called `VideoReDo`, and tell it to do a
`Quickstream Fix`, which fixes the file to be a proper DVD-Mpeg Stream.
Then you can re-load it into VideoRedo and trim the start and finish
points, and re-save the file. This file can then be thrown at Nero to
be converted to a DVD. Simple process, quick to do, and gets a final DVD
with no lip-sync issues, which I found I was getting with lots of the
other post-capture processing software methods.

Hope this helps someone, as it really is a good bit of hardware, but it
can be frustrating due to the poor instructions from Hauppauge.

Following the routine above will give you stunning DVD quality results.