PVR500 and MCE

[james636]

Does anyone know if the WinTV PVR-500 has to have two seperate cable boxes in order to operate the watch one channel while recording another funtion?

[Baldrick]

try the www.shspvr.com forum

[edDV]

Does anyone know if the WinTV PVR-500 has to have two seperate cable boxes in order to operate the watch one channel while recording another funtion?

The PVR-500 can handle 2 analog channels at a time or one analog and one composite/S-Video input from a cable box. Only* the cable box can tune the digital channels.

*exception, some QAM tuners can get some digital channels. It all depends on your cable company.

[SHS]

edDV it can do two Composite or S-Video all 500 come with PCI A/V Cable Set
As for the Analog TVout on Cable box that eazy just matter flipping channel on one box to 3 the other on 4 and 2-way splitter/combiner or the rigth diplexer also you should beware that not all reg 2-Way splitter are Bi-Directional

[reboot]

all 500 come with PCI A/V Cable Set

No they don't. Some "whitebox" resellers don't include the cables or header.
I ordered two PVR-500's from the same place, at different times.
One has it, one doesn't.

[SHS]

Well I can't help you with that problem reboot but one that order from hauppauge whitebox do.

[edDV]

Newegg has the cable/connector set if you didn't get it.

[mike909]

Does anyone know if the WinTV PVR-500 has to have two seperate cable boxes in order to operate the watch one channel while recording another funtion?

digital cable/satallite = yes
analog cable = no

I currently tune two sat. boxes with a wintv500 (svideo and composite audio) and usb-uirt. works great.
Ordered from www.pcalchemy.com and it came with header/cable set for 2nd inputs.