Hi Guys,
After getting tired of trying to figure out why the DTV cards I had were not reliable and would just stop working after a while, I decided to bite the bullet and replace them.
I am sooo glad I did. Although there were some teething issues, including clearing the BIOS and changing pci slots a few times and doing MP reinstall (and fiddling with DB credentials), my MP is up and running with the following dual DTV tuner...
DViCO FusionHDTV DVB-t Dual Digital 4 TV Card, Two Channels, PiP, PCI, Revision 2 (Black PCB) DVI-130
http://www.eyo.com.au/117260_dvico-...els-pip-pci-revision-2-black-pcb-dvi-130.html
It was pretty cheap too AU$40 + delivery - YAY!
I know it may have been better to go pcie but for that price who cares? BTW, it also has analogue on it - but who uses that?
The two dud cards it replaces are:
- Winfast DTV2000H (PCI)
- Avermedia TwinStar A825 (USB dual tuner)
Sooo much better when you have a card that works reliably!
I got to the point with the old cards where I didn't trust them to record anything so I gave up with MP for a while.
I even gave up just trying to watch remotely with MP client. The tuners would screw up and not deliver video.
I think this DViCO one is much snappier with startup channel tuning and channel change too.
Now All Good! =)
Regards,
Feizex.
After getting tired of trying to figure out why the DTV cards I had were not reliable and would just stop working after a while, I decided to bite the bullet and replace them.
I am sooo glad I did. Although there were some teething issues, including clearing the BIOS and changing pci slots a few times and doing MP reinstall (and fiddling with DB credentials), my MP is up and running with the following dual DTV tuner...
DViCO FusionHDTV DVB-t Dual Digital 4 TV Card, Two Channels, PiP, PCI, Revision 2 (Black PCB) DVI-130
http://www.eyo.com.au/117260_dvico-...els-pip-pci-revision-2-black-pcb-dvi-130.html
It was pretty cheap too AU$40 + delivery - YAY!
I know it may have been better to go pcie but for that price who cares? BTW, it also has analogue on it - but who uses that?
The two dud cards it replaces are:
- Winfast DTV2000H (PCI)
- Avermedia TwinStar A825 (USB dual tuner)
Sooo much better when you have a card that works reliably!
I got to the point with the old cards where I didn't trust them to record anything so I gave up with MP for a while.
I even gave up just trying to watch remotely with MP client. The tuners would screw up and not deliver video.
I think this DViCO one is much snappier with startup channel tuning and channel change too.
Now All Good! =)
Regards,
Feizex.