AverTv Purity 3D MCE 500 TV Tuner

[vsenapati]

I am planning to get AverTV Purity 3D MCE 500 TV tuner. I am interested to know whether it is compulsory to use Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005 to use this card. Or, can I use other Media Center Softwares such as Beyond TV 3 / Sage TV V 5 etc ?

[vsenapati]

Well, I had written to Support of Avermedia and I got the reply: Yes this TV tuner card can be used with Beyond TV 4 as well as Sage TV 5.

[edDV]

Well, I had written to Support of Avermedia and I got the reply: Yes this TV tuner card can be used with Beyond TV 4 as well as Sage TV 5.

Check the BeyondTV and SageTV sites for listing under hardware encoding suport. I know nothing about either card but what you need is a card that is supported for hardware encoding. If the card is only supported for software rendering, your PC is usless for any other task during PVR use.

Next search the BeyondTV and SageTV user forums to find other's experiences with these cards. Some "supported" cards have pages of user horror stories.

[SHS]

Yes that card is support in SageTV and BeyondTV it just like the nVidia DualTV, but you my want read this before going buying one.
http://www.htpcnews.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=23900