simple PVR 500 question

[JUC]

Hey all, thinking about upgrading my lonely TV card to the dual tuner version (yes, I am one of the few holdouts with only one PVR card in my system). I have DTV. Which inputs will I be able to use to input two sources? Coaxial, S-Video, and Composite---choose 2 out of the three? Or is it only coaxial and S-video?
Thanks
JUC

[Mahoney]

Choose any two out of the three. And you can, if you want, use the coaxial twice I believe.

[Mahoney]

Oh, and you can get another back plate that plugs into the card for abouot £15, so that you can have two composite or two S-Video inputs going into the same card.

[dagar]

The RF feed has an internal bridge (single coax-in for tuner). You can utilize 2 SVid inputs if you get the external adapter plate. PCAlchemy has 'em for ~$14. Do you mean Digital "cable" TV by DTV? Or do you mean D*? As in DirecTV?

[Crashless]

I use one coax, and one rca, but as others said, there are options.

I just wanted to make sure you weren't throwing away your current tuner, because my 500 works great with my 350. Why settle for 2 when you can have 3?

[mdmint]

Originally Posted by Crashless

I just wanted to make sure you weren't throwing away your current tuner, because my 500 works great with my 350. Why settle for 2 when you can have 3?

Why settle for 3 when you can have 6! (2x500, 2x250 )

Just to reiterate the input flexibility of the PVR500, one PVR500 can have ANY combination of the one or both or it's tuners being feed by coax, SVid or composite.

[deadtoaster2]

Why settle for 3 when you can have 6! (2x500, 2x250 )

In all seriousness here, are there ever 6 things on you want to watch at once?

[ToxMox]

Originally Posted by deadtoaster2

In all seriousness here, are there ever 6 things on you want to watch at once?

For me, yes. Sometimes even 7.

[mdmint]

Originally Posted by deadtoaster2

In all seriousness here, are there ever 6 things on you want to watch at once?

Watch at once no, record at once yes. Also allows for padding and/or accomodating some of the weird start/stop times without as many challenges...

[JUC]

I love it when I forget that I started a post. Anyway, thanks for the info--for some strange reason when the 500 first came out I thought that you could only use the two inputs if you were using them as tuners (no idea why i thought that though). Well, looks like i will be adding a dual tuner to my lonely single setup!
JUC

[Crashless]

Yay! Now expect to run out of recording space next week, and start looking for deals on HDs.

[JUC]

Tell me about it. This is going to require a big configuration change for me. I'll be going from a single tuner shuttle to a 3-tuner client/server setup having my shuttle act as my client. But, i'm going to need to buy another XP license, the 500, and more HD's....oh well--its been way too long for me to be using sage to only have one tuner
JUC