[mythtv-users] will Nova-T 500 work?

Paul thannet at gmail.com
Wed Apr 25 17:36:52 UTC 2007


On Mon, 2007-04-23 at 12:57 -0700, Frank Mckinney wrote:
> Hi all, soon-to-be new user here...
> 
> I'm building up a system and in an enthusiastic impulse eBaying spree
> I purchased a Nova-T 500 tuner card without doing a lot of research if
> it will work or not. In doing much reading after I got the card I've
> found out the 500 is from an older generation of cards, and the
> preferred Hauppage card seems to be the PVR 350 or 150. So basically
> I'm just checking of the Nova-T 500 will be okay, relatively easy to
> set up, etc.? 
> 
> I haven't even started building up the system yet but this is what I'm
> planning for phase one of the MythTV box:
> AMD Sempron 2600+
> Hauppage Nova-T 500 ??
> 384mb of RAM (PC133)
> 250w P/S
> Ubuntu Linux
> 
> Not truly impressive specs but everything apart from the CPU and tuner
> card was free (yay Freecycle!). I'm hoping to make the MythTV box a
> backend and use an Xbox system as a frontend. Which brings to mind my
> next question for another post...
> 
> Anyway, I'd really appreciate if anyone can point me to a guide,
> walkthrough, etc., about using the Nova-T 500, or just tell me simple
> 'yes, it will work' :)
> 
> If it matters, I'm in the UK and planning to connect everything to
> either a Freeview aerial (one reason for the Nova-T 500) and/or a Sky
> digibox...
> 
> Cheers,
> Frank
> 
> 
> 
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I can highly recommend the Nova-T 500, works really well. I followed two
guides to get mine working, one was wiki.effcientpc.co.uk for the Nova-T
500 and the other was www.parker1.co.uk, both these guys have written
really great instructions, even a noob like me understood them.

Paul.



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