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<blockquote data-quote="mh99hojo" data-source="post: 26026" data-attributes="member: 16397"><p>Hello!</p><p></p><p>I have three questions before I decide what TV-card to buy:</p><p></p><p>1) Are there any advantages/disadvantages to having two separe cards rather than one with dual tuners if you want to be able to watch and record at the same time?</p><p></p><p>2) Does having a card with hardware MPEG2-encoder mean that you can build your HTPC around a much "weaker" CPU and VGA card (i.e. does a card without encoder require a lot of CPU time to encode whatever you are recording - and can you at all use timeshift if the card doesn't have build in encoder?)</p><p></p><p>3) In a year or two the broadcast where I live will change from analog to digital. Are capture card for only one or the other, or are there cards that will accept both type of signals?</p><p></p><p>Thanks!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="mh99hojo, post: 26026, member: 16397"] Hello! I have three questions before I decide what TV-card to buy: 1) Are there any advantages/disadvantages to having two separe cards rather than one with dual tuners if you want to be able to watch and record at the same time? 2) Does having a card with hardware MPEG2-encoder mean that you can build your HTPC around a much "weaker" CPU and VGA card (i.e. does a card without encoder require a lot of CPU time to encode whatever you are recording - and can you at all use timeshift if the card doesn't have build in encoder?) 3) In a year or two the broadcast where I live will change from analog to digital. Are capture card for only one or the other, or are there cards that will accept both type of signals? Thanks! [/QUOTE]
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