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

    Brand: Hauppauge
    Category: CE

    Buy New: £55.40



    New (11) from £55.40

    Avg. Customer Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars 23 reviews
    Sales Rank: 6330

    Platform: Windows Xp
    Media: Electronics
    Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.7
    Dimensions (in): 12 x 9.4 x 3
    Legal Disclaimer: Warranty does not cover misuse of the product.

    MPN: 289
    Model: 289
    UPC: 785428002897
    EAN: 0785428002897
    ASIN: B000I1RHWA

    Release Date: August 23, 2006
    Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days

    Features:
      • Win Tv Nova-T 500 - HAUPPAUGE - 00289

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    Editorial Reviews:

    Product Description
    Are you withinrange 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-Schedulerand 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.


    Customer Reviews:   Read 18 more reviews...

    1 out of 5 stars EPG will make you go grey!!!!   October 25, 2008
     0 out of 2 found this review helpful

    The EPG for this seriously sucks! So many people cannot get it to work.....but hey, they have your money by the time you find out it looks like its been designed for Win98 and behaves like its from that era.

    I certainly will not buy from Hauppauge again which is a shame as the card is quiet good just I cant program nothing unless I do it manually.

    Hauppauge get your act together!!!!!!



    3 out of 5 stars Excellent card, Windows software poor, works fine in Linux   October 3, 2008
     5 out of 5 found this review helpful

    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.




    4 out of 5 stars impressive, only loses a star for the bundled software   September 4, 2008
     2 out of 3 found this review helpful

    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.



    2 out of 5 stars No good for PVR on 2k3, its Let down by driver problems, poor software, and the requirement of an external amp.   August 8, 2008
     1 out of 5 found this review helpful

    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!



    4 out of 5 stars Does What It Says On The Tin   August 4, 2008
     1 out of 2 found this review helpful

    Can't comment on the software or remote as it went straight into a Media Center machine and that was that. Works fine and worth the money.

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