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<blockquote data-quote="gurabli" data-source="post: 639697" data-attributes="member: 105904">Thank you all for your help!Sorry for confusing quality of the picture with the type of the tuner, I was not aware of the fact that the tuner in case of digital signal is not responsible for the picture quality (like on the analogue cards, where the type of chip used was crucial for quality). Does this mean that there are no big differences what kind of a digital HD tuner I buy? What is important for me is that it is reliable (especially the driver part), so no freezing, windows crash, etc. and to be able to receive DVB-C and to work perfectly with MediaPortal.I first wanted a PCI or PCIe card, but now I am thinking to have a USB version. I see no disadvantage of having the USB version over PCI(e).I would like to have the best possible tuner available now (OK, for reasonable price around 100EUR). I was looking at Terratec devices, but I am confused what are the differences between these three tuners, which one should I get (one that works best, has the best drivers, MediaPortal support, and works with DVB-C mpeg4)?TerraTec H5Cinergy C PCI HDCinergy HTC USB XS HDThank you again!</blockquote>

[QUOTE="gurabli, post: 639697, member: 105904"] Thank you all for your help! Sorry for confusing quality of the picture with the type of the tuner, I was not aware of the fact that the tuner in case of digital signal is not responsible for the picture quality (like on the analogue cards, where the type of chip used was crucial for quality). Does this mean that there are no big differences what kind of a digital HD tuner I buy? What is important for me is that it is reliable (especially the driver part), so no freezing, windows crash, etc. and to be able to receive DVB-C and to work perfectly with MediaPortal. I first wanted a PCI or PCIe card, but now I am thinking to have a USB version. I see no disadvantage of having the USB version over PCI(e). I would like to have the best possible tuner available now (OK, for reasonable price around 100EUR). I was looking at Terratec devices, but I am confused what are the differences between these three tuners, which one should I get (one that works best, has the best drivers, MediaPortal support, and works with DVB-C mpeg4)? TerraTec H5 Cinergy C PCI HD Cinergy HTC USB XS HD Thank you again! [/QUOTE]

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