Originally Posted by
amdavies
Although the HVR-1300 has 3 options for inputs, I believe that only one can record at any particular time (I may be wrong, I don't have mine in a windows machine to test) whereas you can record two programs or watch one and record another on the Nova-T 500.
As a warning, if you're thinking of trying Linux in the future, then some of the Nova-T 500s aren't compatible at the present time because hauppauge changed the design on some of them. The older ones work well but the Nova-TD (diversity) had issues the last I checked.