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Hauppauge Personal Video Recorder WinTV-PVR 500 MCE White box PCI Interface - Retail

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OverviewCustomer ReviewSpecificationsProduct Tour
Ever want to watch the ball game while your favorite late night TV show is on? Well, the WinTV-PVR-500 MCE innovatively features two complete TV tuners to allow you to watch one channel while recording another - meaning you don't have to choose which show to watch. Just record that late night TV show while you continue to watch the ball game with full PVR capabilities. The WinTV-PVR-500 MCE is fully compliant with Microsoft Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005, and features dual onboard hardware MPEG-2 encoders to greatly reduce CPU utilization while recording, and will even record two TV shows at once!

Review Summary (read more reviews)

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Total Reviews: 258

Some suck Some rock! Call Newegg and make sure you get the type A

white Reviewed By: Read Me! on 12/21/2006
Rating + 5
Tech Level Tech Level: high - Ownership: 1 month to 1 year
Pros: They are making the Type A card again. Make sure you don't get stuck with a samsung tuner.
Cons: Type B cards dont work well and they both have the same part number.
Other Thoughts: OK there is a type A and a type B. the Type B is the samsung tuners. they really suck! Diffrent drivers help some problems but make other ones.

Now the good news! Hauppauge knows this and went back to the type A card.

Type B is so bad A major software maker of PVRs that sells these cards with there software is now letting people exchange them for the type A for free.
41 out of 42 people found this review helpful. Did you? Yes No

Great card

white Reviewed By: YEL on 7/6/2006
Rating + 5
Tech Level Tech Level: high - Ownership: more than 1 year
Pros: Windows and Linux drivers available. Full hardware encoding. This minimizes CPU load when recording, watching, and/or streaming. This also means that a lower end proc can run multiple cards with ease. Internal amp is better then other cards I've tried. Solid product. Works well in my MythTV server.
Cons: Really when compared to it's competitors there are none.
Other Thoughts: Before you review any product you should insure you take as many vars into account as possible. Many people will be splitting a cable line 4+ ways (modem, TV, this card etc.) and expecting a clean picture. Every time you split cable you are halving it's power (actually each split gets less then half). If you do this and it gets fuzzy talk to your cable provider. They may be able to up the amp into your house or if this fails you can buy an amp from a hardware store. You can use multiple splitters to isolate the amp from the cable modem if needed (Recommended) Further info can probably be found at
26 out of 27 people found this review helpful. Did you? Yes No

Quick Specs (view all30)

Model1081
TypeTuner Card
TV TunerAnalog Tuner
TV StandardsNTSC
FM TunerYes

Review Summary (read all 258 Reviews)

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Good Card

white Reviewed By: AUlm27 on 7/4/2008
Rating + 5
Tech Level Tech Level: high - Ownership: 1 month to 1 year
This user purchased this item from Newegg
Pros: Card is easy to install and works great with MythTV setups.
Cons: I have none.
Other Thoughts: I use this card with a DISH sat via SVideo recording. I'm very happy with results.
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New Egg Problems or Hauppauge?

white Reviewed By: on 6/10/2008
Rating + 2
Tech Level Tech Level: somewhat high - Ownership: less than 1 day
This user purchased this item from Newegg
Pros: Nothing good about my short time owning this product.
Cons: Had a capacitor missing, didn't bother to try it without it, now knowing whether the card would overhead and damage my computer.

It also came perhaps too tightly packed in the white box.

I'm out over $20 for the shipping costs.
Other Thoughts: New egg sent me a card with a capacitor clearly knocked off. I send it ground shipping across the US for a replacement and by the time it arrived (taking nearly a week) they were out of stock.
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Great if you have XP Media edition

white Reviewed By: Linux Adv. on 5/29/2008
Rating + 1
Tech Level Tech Level: somewhat high - Ownership: 1 month to 1 year
This user purchased this item from Newegg
Pros: It works, I think its a great buy. Hauppauge makes the best TV tuners from what I have read.
Cons: You need windows xp media centre edition, or Vista with the correct addons. I didn't know this so i use mythTV with Ubuntu
Other Thoughts: I can't play video games on it, there is too big of a lag. I am not sure if it is the hardware or software but I cant get it to work on mythtv or beyondTV,
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Model
Brand Hauppauge
Model WinTV-PVR 500 MCE White box
General
Type Tuner Card
TV Tuner Analog Tuner
TV Standards NTSC
FM Tuner Yes
Remote Control No
Interface PCI
Features
Windows Vista Certified for Windows Vista
Features Watch one channel while recording another with the WinTV-PVR-500MCE and Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005. WinTV-PVR-500MCE contains two complete NTSC TV tuners, each with their own hardware MPEG encoder!
Ever want to watch the ball game while your favorite late night TV show is on? Well, with WinTV-PVR-500MCE, you don't have to chose which show to watch. Just set the Media Center Edition to record that late night TV show while you continue to watch the ball game, with full PVR capabilities. Pause live TV, replay and skip forward, all while your other TV show continues to be recorded to your PC's hard disk .
Specifications
Video Encoding Hardware Encoding
PVR Yes
Ports In FM in
TV in
S-VIDEO in
COMP VID in
System Requirements
Processor Pentium IV processor 1.2GHz or faster
Available Slot Free PCI slot
Operating Systems Supported Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005, Windows XP Home or Windows XP Professional
Note: when using the WinTV-PVR-500 MCE with Windows XP, you need a third party TV application such as SageTV or BeyondTV
Others Sound card
DVD decoder certified for use with Media Center 2005
Packaging
Package Contents WinTV-PVR 500 MCE White box
Driver Disk
FM Cable
Back Panel Composite/S-Video Plus Stereo Audio Inputs
Consumer Alert
Consumer Alert This television receiver has only an analog broadcast tuner and will require a converter box after February 17, 2009, to receive over-the-air broadcasts with an antenna because of the Nation's transition to digital broadcasting. Analog-only TVs should continue to work as before with cable and satellite TV services, gaming consoles, VCRs, DVD players, and similar products. For more information, call the Federal Communications Commission at 1-888-225-5322 (TTY: 1-888-835-5322) or visit the Commission's digital television website at: www.dtv.gov
Manufacturer Warranty
Parts 2 years limited
Labor 2 years limited

Introduction

Ever want to watch the ball game while your favorite late night TV show is on? Well, the WinTV-PVR-500 MCE innovatively features two complete TV tuners to allow you to watch one channel while recording another - meaning you don't have to choose which show to watch. Just record that late night TV show while you continue to watch the ball game with full PVR capabilities. The WinTV-PVR-500 MCE is fully compliant with Microsoft Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005, and features dual onboard hardware MPEG-2 encoders to greatly reduce CPU utilization while recording, and will even record two TV shows at once!



Highlights

newegg Dual TV Tuners
The WinTV-PVR-500 MCE includes dual 125-channel cable-ready TV tuners - each with a dbx-TV stereo decoder which makes it possible to receive two TV channels at the same time.
newegg Dual Hardware MPEG-2 Encoders
The WinTV-PVR-500 MCE features dual high-quality MPEG-2 video and audio encoders based on the Conexant CX23416 MPEG encoder solution to greatly reduce CPU utilization while recoding.
newegg Two On-board A/V Headers
In addition to the back panel Composite/S-Video plus stereo audio inputs, the WinTV-PVR-500 MCE also features two on-board A/V headers allowing connections to two more A/V sources.
newegg One FM Radio Receiver
The WinTV-PVR-500 MCE’s FM radio receiver allows you to enjoy FM radio broadcasts via your computer and record FM programs onto your hard drive for further enjoyment or editing.
newegg Ready for Windows XP MCE 2005
The WinTV-PVR-500 MCE is fully ready for Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005.

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