TV Tuner Card Recommendation (4 channels decoding) (1 Viewer)

[mpiva]

I plan to buy Irdeto 2 SMIT Professional CI Card supporting 4 channels.
Anyone can recommend me a Media Portal compatible DVB-C card that can use the 4 channels?

Thanks in advance

 

[HomeY]

Hi,

Maybe this helps:
http://wiki.team-mediaportal.com/4_HTPC/HTPC_Hardware/TV_Cards

 

[mpiva]

Yes, thanks. Since there where some updates on daily basis on the TV Core , i needed to know, if the devs recommends some card over others.

The wiki says that the Technotrend cards are capable of multi decrypt. Also i need to know, if they're capable of decoding 4 channels on the above CI, or the devs/ppl recommends other card.

Thanks for your fast response

 

[mm1352000]

Nobody can make any guarantee about the compatibility of CAMs with tuners unless they have the same hardware. Therefore I will not make any recommendation. I can only say that with TVE 3 the code makes it technically possible to decrypt multiple channels on the same transponder if using:

• Digital Everywhere OR
  
• TechnoTrend

...tuners.

With TVE 3.5 (MP2 Native TV):

• AVerMedia
• Digital Devices
  
• Digital Everywhere
• DVBSky
• KNC
• Mystique (clones of KNC, Digital Devices, DVBSky)
  
• NetUP
• Satelco (clones of KNC, TechnoTrend)
  
• TBS
  
• TechniSat (clones of Twinhan)
  
• TechnoTrend
• TerraTec (clones of Twinhan)
  
• Twinhan

Decrypting 4 channels is completely dependent on the CAM and tuner hardware/firmware/driver.

Note for Digital Devices, "MTD" (CAM sharing) is supported. That means two or more tuners can share a single CAM, but each tuner can only decrypt one channel. If you have four tuners with one CAM that can decrypt four channels then you can decrypt four channels from any transponders.

 

[mpiva]

Thanks a lot for your response. It helps me a lot.

Regards