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Hauppauge (UK) Ltd
Hauppauge WinTV-Nova-t PCI Freeview Receiver for 38 Plus Channels in DVD Quality DVB Radio / Remote control / And Doubles as a PC Video Recorder
- quickfind code: 27669
- manufacturer #: 909
Buying Information
119 in stock for next day delivery
Thursday, 11th February
108 reviewsOverview
Product Description
Receive free-to-air digital terrestrial TV and radio directly on your PC! WinTV-NOVA-pci-t is an internal PCI device which brings digital terrestrial broadcasts (TV and radio) to your PC. Digital reception provides incredibly sharp TV pictures and near CD quality audio and radio.WinTV-NOVA-pci-t turns your PC monitor into a high quality digital TV receiver. With WinTV-NOVA-pci-t, you can watch digital TV broadcasts in a resizeable window or full screen. You can also receive digital radio channels and listen to digital radio in stereo.
WinTV-NOVA-pci-t lowers the cost of digital TV reception by using your PC's processor to decode the TV image. If you have a 500MHz Pentium III or faster, you can use WinTV-NOVA-pci-t to display TV while still running other PC applications. Surf the net while you watch high quality digital TV!
Your personal Digital VCR: With WinTV-NOVA-pci-t, you can record your digital TV programs to your hard disk, and play them back to your PC screen. TV programs are recorded using high quality MPEG-2, so videos look just as good played back on your PC screen as the originals!
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Works fine witn Linux
operating system:
LinuxI've had one of these cards for about a year and have used it on a Pentium 90 and an Athlon 650 machine under Linux (SuSE 8.1). It has always been a success. I have digital video recorder software running which just records TV / Radio programs on a schedule. The card never gives any trouble an the output is great. Can't comment on the supplied software since I just don't use that.
GREAT!
operating system:
Not ApplicableI bought this product after wanting a digital tuner card for some time for a HTPC, I bought this card before seeing these reviews here so I was a bit worried upon finding them. After receiving the product and I installed it it worked great first time.
I do not know why so many people have been having trouble with this card as it installed fine first time with no problems, the software included worked fine and it found every freeview channel there is first time (using the crystal palace location, which out of the south east loctions wasnt the nearest to me). My postcode is also listed as not being able to receive all of the channels although I still do!
Much better picture quality then my freeview set top box and with the added functionality of recording in mpeg2 which I can author straight to dvd. Overall a great and functional product.
WINTV Nova T PCI and Windows MCE Media Center Edition
operating system:
Windows XPGot this card from eBuyer. Wow a big box with not much inside...LOL
I am building a Media Centre, using a ASUS Pundit P4, Pentium 4 3Ghz,512Mb Ram,200 Gb hard drive.
I have tried the Pinnacle 300i but this card had very slow responses to the remote, crashed with the latest download of the software, and when working would only pick up the BBC Freeview Channels, even when my set top FTV box picked up the lot. So the Pinnacle 300i was not successful.
Tried also the ARTEC USB FTA box. This was good, but it was not compliant with MCE 2005. Also when rebooting, failed to initialise via the USB port, the programme closing down it's self saying no BOX Connected?
So it was down the WIN TV NOVA T PCI CARD to return my faith in TV Cards.
Follwed the instructions and installed the drivers that came on the disc. MSE 2005 then saw the card and asked to find channels. It found them all. However....when clicking on MY TV/LIVE TV, MSE 2005 gave a message regarding video codec’s?
I then found out I needed a 3rd party video MPG2 codec for the TV to be shown using MSE 2005. I downloaded a trial version ( 30 Days ) from NVIDIA, MSE 2005 Version.
Straight away, up came the picture, and it was very clear with great sound.
As for the remote, it will work with MSE 2005, but is very limited. Record,Play,Stop,Volume seemed to be the only buttons that worked. Apparently, you can alter the infrared ini file, so it works more functions on MSE, but it seems to be a bit hap-hazard. You would be best in getting the official MCE Remote and sensor.
Now the odd bit...I can not get the WINTV 2000 programme to work at all. It wont tune in and crashes all over the place. I have downloaded all updates, with no success. Still I am not bothered as MCE 2005 has PVR facilities and has a great GUI.
So all in all....1 out of 5 for the software, but this generally the case when it comes to software for TV cards for some reason. For the hardware...5 out of 5.
Word of caution if fitting in a ASUS Pundit barebones......It's a tight fit, but it will go in.
SO there you go, if your using this card on MSE 2005, don't forget your video codec’s.
Good card for Linux users
operating system:
LinuxThis card now uses (Nov 04) the Conexant chip set and uses different linux drivers to the old card.
Here is what I had to do to get it working with the 2.6.8.1 kernel
http://www.linuxtv.org/mailinglists/linux-dvb/2004/11-2004/msg00618.html
and if you use 2.6.9 kernel read this
http://www.linuxtv.org/mailinglists/linux-dvb/2004/11-2004/msg00619.html
This card performs better than the AverMedia DVB card which gave me a lot of errors regardless of signal quality.
Pleased
operating system:
Windows XPBought this a few weeks ago now, fitted it, took Rauri MacNeill's advice from an earlier post but for some reason the new software on the hauppage site kept on crashing so i used the software off the disk. Changed my offset values in the txt document and it works fine. Very simple to install. Good product, would recommend it to anyone.
WinTV Nova-T PCI
operating system:
Windows XPThis is a very good bit of hardware nobbled by some very poor coding - as most users will agree. Later drivers fix most of the hardware issues but the awful interface still remains - With more delays on start up than a Bank Holiday flight from Heathrow and crashes more often than not when changing channels. (Mine came with Version 2.16). However using the card with Showshifter DVB and Digiguide 6 it becomes what it should have been with no crashes and very little delay on launch. Picture quality brilliant - recordings just as good and proper TIVO like capabilities such as Daily/Weekly Record, live TV pause etc. become a reality. Who needs XP Media Edition!
Works like a bute !
operating system:
Windows XPBought this product about 2 weeks ago, had trouble with video displaying correctly - turns out the Nimo Codec pack I had installed had messed about with the Intervideo codec the card uses to display the video, took it off and works perfectly.
Picture is crystal and can recieve around 41 video channels plus over 10 radio channels.
Now ships with new 2.15a software so no worries about the previous reviews, if in doubt BUY ONE it wont disapoint !!
Works great
Followed the instructions in the box - everything worked exactly as it should have. No problems with installing the card or software, receiving channels, viewing the picture. Does exactly what it says on the tin. However, very glad I'd read all the negative feedback others have left - better to be warned!
New Chipset does not work with Win ME etc.
I have just received one of these with the new chipset which does not have drivers available for older versions of Windows such as ME, 98 etc.
The drivers supplied are designed for XP sp1 and will not work on ME.
Luckily for me, it does work with new Linux Kernels (or my 'old' 2.6.10 Mandriva 2005 LE with Andrew Morton's Multimedia MM kernel) so I can use Kaffeine (or Xine) to view/record/PVR.
Works great in linux
operating system:
LinuxJust a quick note to say this works great in linux (suse linux 9.3)
It's doing a cracking job in my mythtv setup.
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