Recommend me a good dual digital tv tuner (1 Viewer)

[coopers]

Hi folks,

I was all geared up to buy a FusionHDTV DVB-T Dual Digital4:
http://www.fusionhdtv.co.kr/ENG/products/DVBTdual4.aspx

But after reading here on the forums... these seem to have driver issues.

So what is a good dual digital tuner card? Has anyone got any recommendations?

I am in Australia, so it will have to work here.

thanks!

 

[Gixxer]

from what i have read the SINT. TDT HAUPPAUGE WINTV NOVA T500 PCI is a good one. i will buy it for christmas so i cant tell you for sure. but thats what i have been told.

if anyone has any other suggestion, i am also interested.

 

[petsa]

Hi guys,

I have been through three different cards. First I used the Twinhan 3040 (now obsolete I think). Caused me a lot of problems when using it with S3 standby. I then bought a Hauppage T-500 (see above) and hoped the problems would be gone, but no... It also had the problem that the drivers got screwed up when resuming from S3 standby.

So I started searching this (and other) forums. In he end I decided on the Terratec 2400i. It is also a DVB-T card with dual tuners. The difference is that it has a PCI-E interface (rather than PCI) and somehow this solved the problem with standby/resume. It also works with HDTV (h264, 720p) very well.

Good luck!

/Peter

 

[Marcusb]

my favourite is the DigitalNow Dual Hybrid. It has excellent reception and two digital tuners and two analog tuners.
http://www.digitalnow.com.au/dvbtcards.html
For $149 it's hard to go wrong. I had a Dvico Dual and it never worked very well, cost a lot more and had no analog tuners. the thing about it and the huappauge that cause issues most is that they are really two USB cards built onto a USB bridge. This causes issues when you hibernate or suspend.

Note that I never got the analog tuners to work with MP, but then again, I never really tried very hard, since I am all digital.
The TV engine v3 picks up the tuners perfectly, not sure about the standard tv engine but that has issues with the dvico cards too.

 

[OgdenP]

Another recommendation for DigitalNow. Both their support and gear are excellent. I have been using a USB TinyTwin for some time with MP and TVE3 and have had no problem at all with it.

Don't discount USB as a possibility. I have had no problem re-starting after suspending my HTPC (the success of this often has more to do with the Motherboard than the USB devices themselves).

 

[Hildebrandt]

2400i works very well for me.. Only problem is, that it doesn't handle weak signals well..