Advice needed.. (1 Viewer)

[Hildebrandt]

Looking for a replacement for my terratec 2400i card... Love it, but it's a bit too sensitive Re: signal strength...
Must be DVB-T - dual tuner if possible... PCI, PCI-E x1 or USB...

Any recommendations???

 

[elliottmc]

Hi,

I've had good results with a Hauppauge Nova-t 500. This is a dual PCI tuner, which is effectively two USB tuners on one card with a PCI-USB bridge. Some people have reported problems with this setup, mainly with resuming from hibernate (IIRC) but I leave my server on 24/7 so this is not a problem.

This card is also not compatible (yet) with XP SP3, but works perfectly for me with SP2.

Good luck.

Mark

 

[Eeyore]

I have a Hauppauge Nova-T-500 working fine on XP Pro SP3 running MP1.0. no issues so far.

 

[Hildebrandt]

Thx guys - any idea how it handles weak reception???

 

[Eeyore]

sorry, no. I live about a 10 minute drive from the tv tower in this part of the city, so i get pretty good signal strength

 

[elliottmc]

Thx guys - any idea how it handles weak reception???

Hi,

I am also pretty close to a transmitter, but I have had other cards (blackgold) which had poor reception, and the nova-t 500 is fine, so I would be inclined to say that it will handle weak reception pretty well.

Mark

 

[duggyfresh]

It certainly does. I currently have a Nova-T-500 twin tuner in an HTPC and a 22-in tv with built-in Freeview decoder running from the same signal booster. I live in an area that is not supposed to receive Freeview but I get more channels in better quality on the Nova-T than the tv.

Regards,
Duggy.

P.S. I am also running XP Pro SP3 with no problems.

 

[Hildebrandt]

Thx, guys... I'll probably hold off on buying new - found beta driver on the terratec website, and i've nad no problems since installing it..