Digital Cable / Satilite

Hey Everyone

Just Wondering if anyone else has Accomplished This?

What i would like to do, is i have 2 Digital Satellite Sources(Identical)
and i would like to bring them into my Hauppauge 500 MCE. I will of course
have XP MCE, and i would like to be able to record from one source and watch
another, but Also use my MS Remote to control the channels.
Is this easy? From what i understand, what ever is on the output of either
Satellite is the only thing the turner will see, hence i will not be able to
download a program guide for time shifting / movie recording.
Or am i missing something about MCE? (Never used it before)

any insight would be great.

Lee

What you are proposing is very doable. The Hauppauge 500 card comes with =
an additional backplane adapter so that you can use two different set =
top boxes (composite or S-Video) with Media Center. You can't use RF =
(coax) out of the STB's, as there is only one RF input, and that signal =
is split internally. The tuner doesn't need to see the guide data, =
that's all handled via download from the Internet by Media Center.

For an excellent tutorial by MVP Barb Bowman, on using dual STB's with =
Media Center, go here:

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/mce/expert/bowman_dualtuners.msp=
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Thanks for the info,

Just one more question, Does MCE support Guide's from Canadian STB's? Also,
will i still have to use my STB remote to change channel's, or will my MS
Mouse do that for me?

thanks

Lee

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