Hi,
I have been using MCE 2005 successfully with a Hauppauge PVR 150 TV card
connected to an NTL set top box via a composite video port.

I would now like to add a 2nd TV card to enalbe viewing of Digital TV too.
I have bought a Digital Nova-T pci card but I am having a little touble
setting it up!

Can someone please clarify if MCE will work with these two different TV cards?
Thank you.

On Wed, 26 Oct 2005 13:39:10 -0700, "Lagoon Blue"
<LagoonBlue@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

>Hi,
>I have been using MCE 2005 successfully with a Hauppauge PVR 150 TV card
>connected to an NTL set top box via a composite video port.
>
>I would now like to add a 2nd TV card to enalbe viewing of Digital TV too.
>I have bought a Digital Nova-T pci card but I am having a little touble
>setting it up!
>
>Can someone please clarify if MCE will work with these two different TV cards?
>Thank you.

Sorry, partly because of the requirement to have a single Electronic Programme
Guide it's an either/or thing. You cannot use both tuners together.

--
Nigel Barker
Live from the sunny Cote d'Azur

Thanks for your reply, altough its a shame it cannot cope with the two
different cards. This would have been a good combined solution.

"Nigel Barker" wrote:

> On Wed, 26 Oct 2005 13:39:10 -0700, "Lagoon Blue"
> <LagoonBlue@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
>
> >Hi,
> >I have been using MCE 2005 successfully with a Hauppauge PVR 150 TV card
> >connected to an NTL set top box via a composite video port.
> >
> >I would now like to add a 2nd TV card to enalbe viewing of Digital TV too.
> >I have bought a Digital Nova-T pci card but I am having a little touble
> >setting it up!
> >
> >Can someone please clarify if MCE will work with these two different TV cards?
> >Thank you.
>
> Sorry, partly because of the requirement to have a single Electronic Programme
> Guide it's an either/or thing. You cannot use both tuners together.
>
> --
> Nigel Barker
> Live from the sunny Cote d'Azur
>

I believe that the answer given was incorrect. You can have more than
one tuner card -- I believe, in fact, that you can have up to 3 tuners
(two analog (NTSC) and one digital (ATSC) tuner). But you can only have
one program guide, so they have to see the same channel setup.


Lagoon Blue wrote:
> Thanks for your reply, altough its a shame it cannot cope with the two
> different cards. This would have been a good combined solution.
>
> "Nigel Barker" wrote:
>
>
>>On Wed, 26 Oct 2005 13:39:10 -0700, "Lagoon Blue"
>><LagoonBlue@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>>>Hi,
>>>I have been using MCE 2005 successfully with a Hauppauge PVR 150 TV card
>>>connected to an NTL set top box via a composite video port.
>>>
>>>I would now like to add a 2nd TV card to enalbe viewing of Digital TV too.
>>>I have bought a Digital Nova-T pci card but I am having a little touble
>>>setting it up!
>>>
>>>Can someone please clarify if MCE will work with these two different TV cards?
>>>Thank you.
>>
>>Sorry, partly because of the requirement to have a single Electronic Programme
>>Guide it's an either/or thing. You cannot use both tuners together.
>>
>>--
>>Nigel Barker
>>Live from the sunny Cote d'Azur
>>

On Thu, 27 Oct 2005 19:22:12 -0400, Barry Watzman <WatzmanNOSPAM@neo.rr.com>
wrote:

>I believe that the answer given was incorrect. You can have more than
>one tuner card -- I believe, in fact, that you can have up to 3 tuners
>(two analog (NTSC) and one digital (ATSC) tuner). But you can only have
>one program guide, so they have to see the same channel setup.

The answer I gave was correct. It is not possible to use an analogue TV capture
card & digital DVB-T card at the same time.

The OP specified that he wanted to use a digital Hauppauge Nova-T DVB-T card
with an analogue Hauppauge WinTV PVR150. As he wants to use DVB-T he is
obviously not in the US & thus able to NTSC or ATSC tuners. Incidentally 2 NTSC
& 2 ATSC tuners are now supported by MCE2005 with Rollup 2.

--
Nigel Barker
Live from the sunny Cote d'Azur