Twin DVB-S2 PCI-Express card or 2x DVB-S2 USB receiver better? (1 Viewer)

olli14

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Hi,
at the moment I have a htpc with the single Intel Atom chip (230) and nvidia ION chip. I'm using this htpc for my videos, bluray, my music and my pictures. At the moment I doesn't have a tv card inside my htpc.
Now I'm thinking about building a new htpc with Intel Atom 330 (Dual core) and ION chip for watching tv too. I tested already tv files with the file format 720p and 1080i recorded with my digital satellite receiver Humax iCord HD and these files where running perfect on my single atom baord.
Now when I'm building this new htpc I wanna have twin tuner inside. My question: what's better? Two DVB-S2 USB sattelite receivers (e.g Tevii S660) or a Twin (Dual) DVB-S2 PCI-Express card?
 

mbuzina

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    Do you want to view FTA only? If so, there should be no big difference. If you want to use a CI Module, I think having a twin card is better, since (some) can decode on both channels at the same time.
     

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