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<blockquote data-quote="feizex" data-source="post: 847941" data-attributes="member: 96644">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<a href="http://www.eyo.com.au/117260_dvico-fusionhdtv-dvb-t-dual-digital-4-tv-card-two-channels-pip-pci-revision-2-black-pcb-dvi-130.html" target="_blank">http://www.eyo.com.au/117260_dvico-fusionhdtv-dvb-t-dual-digital-4-tv-card-two-channels-pip-pci-revision-2-black-pcb-dvi-130.html</a>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.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="feizex, post: 847941, member: 96644"] 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 [url]http://www.eyo.com.au/117260_dvico-fusionhdtv-dvb-t-dual-digital-4-tv-card-two-channels-pip-pci-revision-2-black-pcb-dvi-130.html[/url] 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. [/QUOTE]

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