Will these bits do what I want?

[nullfork]

Hi everyone,

First post -- so easy on me

I'm putting a Freeview solution together for my mother and have 2 options:-

1) Buy a HUMAX 9200T box for £190 and be done with it.
2) Buy a dual tuner PCI freeview card + a tv out card and GBPVR.

I'm open to either option, I'm not scared of PCs, I'm dead confident with construction and configuration. Plus I'm a software developer so I'm not scared of software like GBPVR either...

What I need to know from you experts is will the following hardware...

Hauppauge Nova-T 500
<unknown> TV out card (ATI/Nvidia/etc.)
GBPVR
Pentium 3 800MHZ w/ 256mb
ATA100 7200RPM IDE

...enable my Mum to watch a freeview channel while she records another freeview channel on her SCART'd Panasonic widescreen TV?

Also, is there a remote control option for GBPVR, and do you think it would be easier for me to buy a shrink wrapped solution (i.e. Humax 9200T) considering my mother will be the end user?

If the above is possible, what I really need to know is what TVOUT card to get, obviously I'm looking at one with hardware decoding considering the spec of the PC.

MANY thanks in advance, and sorry if this question has been asked six million times before!

Stuart

[herbs]

I'm afraid to say Number 1, my parents have the 9200t and it works almost faultlessly (odd hiccup nothing major). On pc there is the extra running costs of electricty and you will not be called for windows support. I would have never suggested to my parents as they are not pc literate enough to fix problems. I have 2 gbpvr setups and love them, I have more flexibility than the humax but for my parents a pc would be a nightmare.

[sub]

Yeah, when it comes to parent, I'd have to suggest the same.

[nitrogen_widget]

I'm pretty sure i've read that the p3 isn't enough grunt for HDTV if that is what freeview is.

Also, i've found that windows will die before GBPVR does so if I were to do something like this for my parents I would use 2 HD's.
A boot drive & a media drive.
I would have a windows back-up run every night to the media drive in case of failure & I would also have a bootable ghost image on a DVD.

That way I can just re-image the HD & apply the last back-up to get them up & running.

I've thought about this a lot.

[nullfork]

Thanks for the responses guys, figured you'd say that

I'm still looking into building an HTPC for my own needs so I'll still be getting a GBPVR system setup anyway.

Any thoughts on a decent TVOUT card?

[cosmocat]

I use a cheap ( I forget the exact make / model) nvidia5200 card with a TV out. Plenty powerful enough for HTPC display and fanless so silent in operation (important if the HTPC is with the telly).