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Ok, let's do one more today. One that is a bit related to previous chapter:

TV tuner cards

Most tuner card have only one tuner, but with the current shift towards digital television in Europe, hybrid tunercards become more interesting, which have multiple tuners. And then there are people who have multiple tunercards in their computer, or even multiple hybrid cards. And then there are those that don't even use MP to watch TV, and don't have any tuners at all. So how many tuners does the average MediaPortal user have?

• Average number of tuners per computer: 1.7

Having multiple tuners is very popular, either to be able to receive both analog and digital TV, or to watch one channel and record another. But the number of people with only one tuner in their HTPC is also still considerable.

Here is the distribution of types of tuner cards:

• analog: 29%
• digital: 58%
• hybrid: 13%

And in some more detail, the analog cards:

• software encoding: 3%
• hardware encoding: 98%

The digital tuners:

• DVB-S (satellite): 47%
• DVB-T (antenna): 43%
• DVB-C (cable): 10%

And the hybrids:

• software encoding / DVB-T: 46%
• hardware encoding / DVB-T: 54%

As for the brands, there is really only one brand that is being used for analog tuners:

• Hauppauge: 92%

But with such a big percentage, I can at least give some more details:

• WinTV-PVR-150: 47%
• WinTV-PVR-500: 31%

The choice between digital tuners is a bit more evenly distributed:

• Hauppauge: 18%
• Technisat (Skystar): 14%
• Technotrent: 13%
• Digital Everywhere (Fire/FloppyDTV): 13%

The numbers here are too low to dig up more details...

For hybrids, it's the old story again, though this time a bit less overwhelming:

• Hauppauge: 57%

The other 49% is distributed over too many different producers to display any usable numbers, but we have some details on Hauppauge:

• WinTV-HVR-1300: 55%
• WinTV-HVR-4000: 20%

Okay, that's all for today! Any more requests? I still have quite a few numbers in my spreadsheet