Re: Windows MCE - dual tuner card, bit confused

["Geraint Williams" <aclcsc@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Helps a great deal Stuart.
I had sort of thought from my research today that whilst the PVR500
is dual tuner, it would require one coax and one s-video from two
different boxes, and a few people on US forums had opted for two
cards instead.

I'm sure mine came with a piggyback board, but high and low I can't
find the thing.

I also understood MCE2005 did not yet support two cards ?

I have the MCE remote and the two blasters so that part makes sense.

So i guess two identical sky boxes aren't going to confuse it too
much. I was thinking the IR from remote would change the channel
direct, but now i understand it just controls the MCE and then it in
turn sends signals to the boxes.

Time to get a couple of new digiboxes then and get my subscription
upped to multi-room (still think thats a ripoff from sky, grrrr)

Now have to decide if a pair of pvr150s are a better bet, and if i
have enough pci slots on new mobo etc.

Many Thanks
Geraint.



--- In ukha_d@xxxxxxx, "Stuart McMillan" <stuartmc@g...>
wrote:
> Geraint,
>
> You pretty much have it right. Two Sky boxes and a standard and
multiroom
> subscription gives you two independent tuner sources for MCE.
>
> The PVR500 may not be the best card for you to use. Although this
is a dual
> tuner card it ships with only one set of composite inputs on the
back panel.
> There is a back plate adapter that adds the extra set of inputs
but it has
> been difficult to get these in the UK. I know that it is available
in the US
> and someone in Ireland was also able to get one. Most people just
go with
> two separate MCE150 analogue tuners.
>
> The MCE remote control receiver has two IR blaster outputs on the
back of
> it. One of these should be attached close to each Sky Box to issue
the
> channel change commands by IR. In simple terms just like Sky Plus
one box is
> used for watching live TV and the other is purely for recording
another
> channel that needs to be recorded at the same time. Once MCE has
decided
> which is which it pretty much doesn't matter to you as MCE knows
which one
> to change.
>
> Hope some of this helps.
>
> Stuart
>
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> From: ukha_d@xxxxxxx [mailto:ukha_d@xxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of
> Geraint Williams
> Sent: 02 June 2005 15:57
> To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> Subject: [ukha_d] Windows MCE - dual tuner card, bit confused
>
>
> Afternoon all,
>
> Please feel free to slap me with a kipper if this is a stupid
> question that i'm over complicating.
>
> I am in process of building a HTPC with MCE2005 (been testing upon
> it for a while, and now a dedicated machine is being built)
>
> I have a Haupagge PVR500 dual tuner card which the intention was
to
> use this to allow two sat boxes to be hooked up to the card and
> allow recording of one, watching of another etc.
> Currently have a TiVo which the mrs has really got into so it's
got
> to be the same ease of use if not more so before I can justify
> moving over to the HTPC system.
>
> What I can't understand is can I literally have two Sky boxes with
> two sky cards and MCE be able to handle this ?
> If the boxes are the same make and model, then how does the
control
> of the channel changes occur ?
>
> Any help be most appreciated.
>
> Regards
> Geraint.
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