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<blockquote data-quote="mm1352000" data-source="post: 1208039" data-attributes="member: 82144">Generally speaking: no. If USB is convenient for you, that's what I'd recommend you get.The only problem I recall being reported which is specific to USB tuners is that occasionally on certain machines (ie. this problem may never affect you) Windows assigns them a new device identifier. This in turn causes TV Server to recognise the tuner as a new tuner with no configuration, which means recordings and live TV will fail until you copy the configuration to the &quot;new&quot; tuner. My memory is that this has been reported only a handful of times in all the years (5+) that I've been working on MP. Therefore the chances of it affecting you are extremely slim. I only mention it because you asked if there are any disadvantages.Yes, definitely - by a lot of people. I'd guess as many or more people use USB tuners as compared with PCIe or PCI.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="mm1352000, post: 1208039, member: 82144"] Generally speaking: no. If USB is convenient for you, that's what I'd recommend you get. The only problem I recall being reported which is specific to USB tuners is that occasionally [I]on certain machines [/I](ie. this problem may never affect you) Windows assigns them a new device identifier. This in turn causes TV Server to recognise the tuner as a new tuner with no configuration, which means recordings and live TV will fail until you copy the configuration to the "new" tuner. My memory is that this has been reported only a handful of times in all the years (5+) that I've been working on MP. Therefore the chances of it affecting you are extremely slim. I only mention it because you asked if there are [I]any[/I] disadvantages. Yes, definitely - by a lot of people. I'd guess as many or more people use USB tuners as compared with PCIe or PCI. [/QUOTE]

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