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<blockquote data-quote="resa" data-source="post: 550830" data-attributes="member: 68500">helloi have tried a big variety of analouge, digital and hybrid cards and my resume:i can recommend hauppauge as well too, they works almost without problems and audio/video-quality is always fine.but: i nearly never get both tuners of an hybrid-card (not only hauppauge) worked at the same time in MediaPortal... or not without hang-up the card, when switching between the tuners.so i am using now an hybrid hauppauge card only for DVB over terrestical (wich will be called ATSC in the US, but here in Germany it has such a poor quality, so you can call it for analogue quality ;-) and an additional card with DVB over cable (which supports HD and best quality here in Germany... i using it instead of Satelite-TV)and this will be my recomendation too: take 2 cards! one for analouge and one for digital. there are so much more benefits with that and MediaPortal.. you can record one programme and view another one ... or you can even record 2 programms at the same time ;-))the prices for analouge cards are so low, that it really doesn't matters anymore (just take a look over ebay for a used one) and you don't have to think about compromises in quality or options/compatibility with MediaPortal for your digital card, wich IMHO will be the important one.the manufactor i generally can not recommend is pinnacle... none of this cards works stable under any circumstances (even not with the original bundled Software).best regards,resa</blockquote>

[QUOTE="resa, post: 550830, member: 68500"] hello i have tried a big variety of analouge, digital and hybrid cards and my resume: i can recommend hauppauge as well too, they works almost without problems and audio/video-quality is always fine. but: i nearly never get both tuners of an hybrid-card (not only hauppauge) worked at the same time in MediaPortal... or not without hang-up the card, when switching between the tuners. so i am using now an hybrid hauppauge card only for DVB over terrestical (wich will be called ATSC in the US, but here in Germany it has such a poor quality, so you can call it for analogue quality ;-) and an additional card with DVB over cable (which supports HD and best quality here in Germany... i using it instead of Satelite-TV) and this will be my recomendation too: take 2 cards! one for analouge and one for digital. there are so much more benefits with that and MediaPortal.. you can record one programme and view another one ... or you can even record 2 programms at the same time ;-)) the prices for analouge cards are so low, that it really doesn't matters anymore (just take a look over ebay for a used one) and you don't have to think about compromises in quality or options/compatibility with MediaPortal for your digital card, wich IMHO will be the important one. the manufactor i generally can not recommend is pinnacle... none of this cards works stable under any circumstances (even not with the original bundled Software). best regards, resa [/QUOTE]

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