Recording and watching on Hauppage 350?

[onestar]

Hi all, I have been searching the forums, but couldn't find a few answers that I hope someone kind enough here will answer.

Using a Hauppauge 350 (just about to buy), is it possible to use this application to record (schedule) a program while at the sametime watch another already recorded program via the tvout?

Second, when using the tvout of the card, can you view the menus on a tv, using the remote , ie control the application.

Basically I want to use the system like a pvr/mediacenter. I bought the pinnacle 300i, which seems good, except it uses software encoding and decoding and it starts to sputter at times. So thinking a HW encoder/decoder should be much much better. But before spending another 100+ anyone answer the questions please.

Thanks

[Darx-starz]

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Using a Hauppauge 350 (just about to buy), is it possible to use this application to record (schedule) a program while at the sametime watch another already recorded program via the tvout?

Yes you can. Thats what i used to do. However, I wanted to be able to watch Divx AVi's and watch DVD's. The PVR350 does not support those.

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Second, when using the tvout of the card, can you view the menus on a tv, using the remote , ie control the application.

Yes it will do this. However you will never see windows. You may or not think that is a good thing  

[onestar]

Wow thanks for the quick reply. Although Divx would be nice, I figure I'll either use the 300i or record discs as MPEG to view (and get a bigger harddisc)