Hauppauge WinTV-PVR-500 MCE Internal Analog PCI

<b>Dual Tuner board for use with Microsoft's Windows Media Center application in Windows Vista Home Premium or Ultimate, and Windows XP Media Center Edition.

WinTV-PVR-500 MCE brings TV watching with background recording to Windows Media Center.

Also compatible with third party TV applications such as BeyondTV or SageTV.</b>

Watch one channel while recording another with the WinTV-PVR-500 MCE and Windows XP Media Center Edition or Vista Home Premium or Ultimate. WinTV-PVR-500 MCE contains two complete 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-500 MCE, 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.

<b>For Windows Vista Home Premium or Ultimate or Windows XP Media Center Edition users:</b>
-Watch TV with the MyTV button in Media Center.
-Watch one TV show while recording another using WinTV-PVR-500's built-in dual hardware MPEG encoders.
-Record two TV shows at once.

<b>WinTV-PVR-500 MCE includes:</b>
-Dual 125 channel cable ready TV tuners, each with a dbx-TV stereo decoder (Nicam stereo decoder in Europe).
-Dual high quality MPEG2 video and audio encoders based on the Conexant -416 MPEG encoder.
-One back panel composite/s-video plus stereo audio inputs to connect to cable or satellite set top boxes.
-Two on-board A/V headers, to connect to two more A/V sources.
-One A/V back panel set with S-Video, composite and left/right audio input connectors.
-One FM radio receiver.
-Note: the WinTV-PVR-500 MCE does not come with a remote control or a software DVD decoder. If you are building Media Center systems, please check with Microsoft for a list of MCE certified remote controls and DVD decoders.