[mythtvnz] Nova T-500 cards

[Brett Miller]

What I always understood the nova-t-500 to be:

The original Nova-T-500 is a USB device.
Two USB tuners & USB hub on  PCI card.

Simple cheap clever way to get dual tuners on one PCB.

I read something on the web about a reason for going to two antenna inputs.
Don't remember the details, but seems pointless & annoying as will have more 
loss with one antenna thru' splitter.
Only benefit would be pointing the two UHF antenna in different directions.


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Stephen Worthington" <stephen_agent at jsw.gen.nz>
To: <hoiho.nz at gmail.com>; "MythTV in NZ" <mythtvnz at lists.linuxnut.co.nz>
Sent: Monday, November 16, 2009 7:48 PM
Subject: Re: [mythtvnz] Nova T-500 cards


> On Mon, 16 Nov 2009 19:00:43 +1300, you wrote:
>
>>On Mon, 16 Nov 2009 14:50, Stephen Worthington wrote:
>>> I ordered a Hauppauge Nova T-500 card from Ascent:
>>>
>>>   http://www.ascent.co.nz/productspecification.aspx?ItemID=373800
>>>
>>> What has just arrived is not the model I ordered - it is a Nova TD-500
>>> Model 298.
>>>
>>> So, has anyone out there used one of these Nova TD-500 Model 298
>>> cards?  Do they work?  Does the remote work?  The FM radio?
>>>
>>> _______________________________________________
>>Well to heap further confusion on the pile
>>
>>I ordered a NOVA-T-500 fromm Ascent about 12 months ago.
>>
>>The package that arrived pictured a card with a single ariel input but the 
>>box
>>was labeled "Dual Tuner"
>>
>>The box was originally printed with the model Designation WinTV-NOVA-T-500
>>model 289and a barcode number of 7 85428 00289 7
>>
>>This printing was covered up by a label with that said WinTV-Nova_T-500-HD
>>with the barcode now stating 7 85428 00298 9.
>>
>>I just wacked it in my PC and it worked first go. The remote works fine 
>>but
>>there is no reference to FM radio.
>>
>>Two other labels on the box were
>>
>>1 Assembled in Indonesia (Instead of Assembled in Malaysia)
>>
>>2 HD High Definition MPEG-2/-4 HDTV Ready.
>>
>>So I got a HD card in a modified SD box is how I read all this.
>>
>>In your case I wonder what the D stands for after the T  I can see that 
>>you
>>might be concerned that at stands for Diversity.
>>
>>Would not know how to advise you further.
>>
>>Regards
>>
>>TOny Sauri
>
> Thank you - that label and barcode number exactly matches mine.  I had
> not noticed that the barcode had also had a new sticker put on top of
> it.  So mine should work just like yours.
>
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