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<blockquote data-quote="petsa" data-source="post: 488208" data-attributes="member: 29962">Hi VortexDK,I have tried many different DVB-T cards in the past years, e.g. Nova T-500, Terratec 2400i, Twinhan VP3040, and the card that has worked best is my current HVR-2200. I works well going in/out of standby/hibernate and has never failed on me. I can highly recommend it.To answer your questions:1. To be able to view &amp; record from multiple channels at the same time.2. Yes and no, for DVB-T channels are bundled on multipexers (muxes), e.g. in Sweden (almost) all SVT channels are on the same mux. But TV4 and TV6 are on another mux. If you want to view&amp;record channels that are on the same mux then you only need one tuner, but if you want to view one channel and record another that are not on the same mux then you need multiple tuners.3. You don't have to split the signal, it is taken care of internally on the TV-card.4. HVR-2200 is the card I have had the least problems with and I am not aware of any issues. Anything particular you have heard about?In addition I can also watch HDTV channels (only SVT HD) at the moment with the proper decoder installed in MP.I would go for the HVR-2200 instead of the HVR-1300 but make sure you have a PCI-Express slot available for HVR-2200, since the HVR-1300 works with the PCI connector.Good luck!/Peter</blockquote>

[QUOTE="petsa, post: 488208, member: 29962"] Hi VortexDK, I have tried many different DVB-T cards in the past years, e.g. Nova T-500, Terratec 2400i, Twinhan VP3040, and the card that has worked best is my current HVR-2200. I works well going in/out of standby/hibernate and has never failed on me. I can highly recommend it. To answer your questions: 1. To be able to view & record from multiple channels at the same time. 2. Yes and no, for DVB-T channels are bundled on multipexers (muxes), e.g. in Sweden (almost) all SVT channels are on the same mux. But TV4 and TV6 are on another mux. If you want to view&record channels that are on the same mux then you only need one tuner, but if you want to view one channel and record another that are not on the same mux then you need multiple tuners. 3. You don't have to split the signal, it is taken care of internally on the TV-card. 4. HVR-2200 is the card I have had the least problems with and I am not aware of any issues. Anything particular you have heard about? In addition I can also watch HDTV channels (only SVT HD) at the moment with the proper decoder installed in MP. I would go for the HVR-2200 instead of the HVR-1300 but make sure you have a PCI-Express slot available for HVR-2200, since the HVR-1300 works with the PCI connector. Good luck! /Peter [/QUOTE]

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