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<blockquote data-quote="villosil" data-source="post: 358662" data-attributes="member: 87101">Hi all, I'm new in this forum.I'm in the process of a new HTPC. My main use of the HTPC is gonna be TV watching-recording, so I'm looking for a good DVB-T card with two tunners for recording and viewing at the same time. I dont' mind if the card is PCI or PCI-e, but thinking about speedness, I could think that a PCI-e card should go better with channel switching, or maybe not, just guessing. Also I would prefer not to buy a card with analogic tv tuner, since here in Spain in less than one year analogic tv will dissapear, and I consider a waste to spend money on this, but I'm open to everything as long as it is fast when changing channels.Some weeks ago I bought a Pinnacle PCTV Dual DVB-T Pro PCI and I tried it with MP RC4. The channel switching was pretty slow, 7-8 seconds or even more. I don't know if this is normal, or it was card's or MP fault.I would like to know your generally experiences with your cards about this issue, even if they have single dvb-t tuner cards. Also I've read in some places bad experiences with mediaportal about slow switching, saying that a same card with a different program worked fine (mostly with the software that came with the card), and with mediaportal didn't. Does this happened to you? And even someone claimed that the Server-Client structure of TV-Server makes channel switching slow. Is it that true?Well, just waiting for your opinions. Thank you in advance <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="villosil, post: 358662, member: 87101"] Hi all, I'm new in this forum. I'm in the process of a new HTPC. My main use of the HTPC is gonna be TV watching-recording, so I'm looking for a good DVB-T card with two tunners for recording and viewing at the same time. I dont' mind if the card is PCI or PCI-e, but thinking about speedness, I could think that a PCI-e card should go better with channel switching, or maybe not, just guessing. Also I would prefer not to buy a card with analogic tv tuner, since here in Spain in less than one year analogic tv will dissapear, and I consider a waste to spend money on this, but I'm open to everything as long as it is fast when changing channels. Some weeks ago I bought a Pinnacle PCTV Dual DVB-T Pro PCI and I tried it with MP RC4. The channel switching was pretty slow, 7-8 seconds or even more. I don't know if this is normal, or it was card's or MP fault. I would like to know your generally experiences with your cards about this issue, even if they have single dvb-t tuner cards. Also I've read in some places bad experiences with mediaportal about slow switching, saying that a same card with a different program worked fine (mostly with the software that came with the card), and with mediaportal didn't. Does this happened to you? And even someone claimed that the Server-Client structure of TV-Server makes channel switching slow. Is it that true? Well, just waiting for your opinions. Thank you in advance :) [/QUOTE]

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