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Nov 16, 2007, 7:27 AM

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Dual Tuners - HDTV - suggestions

I have 2 hdtv, ota, tuner cards on my backend.....
can anyone suggest a dual, 2 tuner hdtv card that
I can replace them with. I'd prefer to get two tuners
from a single PCI slot if possible, but they have to
by HDTV cards that I can get OTA signals from.

jack
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darren.richards at gmail

Nov 16, 2007, 7:34 AM

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Re: Dual Tuners - HDTV - suggestions [In reply to]

On Nov 16, 2007 8:27 AM, jack snodgrass <mrlinuxgroups [at] gmail> wrote:

> I have 2 hdtv, ota, tuner cards on my backend.....
> can anyone suggest a dual, 2 tuner hdtv card that
> I can replace them with. I'd prefer to get two tuners
> from a single PCI slot if possible, but they have to
> by HDTV cards that I can get OTA signals from.

I'd recommed a HDHomeRun. It has dual HD tuners, and it'll free up not one,
but two of your PCI slots. I picked mine up a couple months ago and have
been very happy with it.

mythtv at rodsbooks

Nov 16, 2007, 8:02 AM

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Re: Dual Tuners - HDTV - suggestions [In reply to]

On Friday 16 November 2007 10:27:43 jack snodgrass wrote:
> I have 2 hdtv, ota, tuner cards on my backend.....
> can anyone suggest a dual, 2 tuner hdtv card that
> I can replace them with. I'd prefer to get two tuners
> from a single PCI slot if possible, but they have to
> by HDTV cards that I can get OTA signals from.

Please say where you live; the HDTV offerings vary from one part of the world
to another. My suspicion is that you're in the US, so I'll continue on that
assumption....

I don't know of any dual-tuner HDTV PCI cards; AFAIK, all HDTV PCI cards are
single-tuner devices. There is, however, the HDHomeRun, which is an external
Ethernet-interfaced device with two HDTV tuners. IIRC, the HDHomeRun doesn't
have any analog tuners, so you'll need to keep your current tuners for analog
content. The HDHomeRun does support both ATSC (for over-the-air) and QAM (for
unencrypted digital cable).

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lindsay at softlog

Nov 16, 2007, 5:06 PM

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Re: Dual Tuners - HDTV - suggestions [In reply to]

Rod Smith wrote:
> On Friday 16 November 2007 10:27:43 jack snodgrass wrote:
>
>> I have 2 hdtv, ota, tuner cards on my backend.....
>> can anyone suggest a dual, 2 tuner hdtv card that
>> I can replace them with. I'd prefer to get two tuners
>> from a single PCI slot if possible, but they have to
>> by HDTV cards that I can get OTA signals from.
>>
>
> Please say where you live; the HDTV offerings vary from one part of the world
> to another. My suspicion is that you're in the US, so I'll continue on that
> assumption....
>

My apologies, I was very slack on details.

Australia (Brisbane)
DVB only, not fussed about analogue

> I don't know of any dual-tuner HDTV PCI cards; AFAIK, all HDTV PCI cards are
> single-tuner devices. There is, however, the HDHomeRun, which is an external
> Ethernet-interfaced device with two HDTV tuners.

Its a shame the HDHomeRun is not available is Australia, it seems a very
good solution.

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lindsay at softlog

Nov 16, 2007, 6:16 PM

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Re: Dual Tuners - HDTV - suggestions [In reply to]

Thanks for the feedback guys, the Hauppauge Nova-T-500 looks like a good
choice, so long as I'm fully uptodate on the V4L drivers.

Though the DVico Fusion Dual 4 Dual Digital also looks good.

The USB support is better than I thought too, the linuxtv wiki lists:
http://www.linuxtv.org/wiki/index.php/DVB-T_USB_Devices
- DViCO FusionHDTV DVB-T Dual USB
- Pinnacle PCTV Dual DVB-T Diversity (PCTV 2000e USB)
- TerraTec Cinergy DT USB XS Diversity
- Hauppauge WinTV-NOVA-TD-Stick

though again, *latest* V4L and firmware...

Thanks all - definitely got me off in the right directions.

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Nov 16, 2007, 8:00 PM

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RE: Dual Tuners - HDTV - suggestions [In reply to]

I just got the DVico Fusion HDTV Dual Digital 4. It has two HDTV tuners on the one card with one co-ax input. Its PCI but there is also a PCI Express version. I just followed the setup instructions here: http://fremnet.net/article/228/dvico-fusionhdtv-dual-digital-4-under-linux and everything worked perfectly. The only thing that doesn't work is the remote that comes with it because it plugs into the card, but apparently some people are working on this. I live about 60km from the broadcast towers and I get 66% signal strength and 0% or 1% signal noise on my outdoor antenna. Never had it glitch even once. Original Message:I have 2 hdtv, ota, tuner cards on my backend.....
can anyone suggest a dual, 2 tuner hdtv card that
I can replace them with. I'd prefer to get two tuners
from a single PCI slot if possible, but they have to
by HDTV cards that I can get OTA signals from.

jack
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Nov 17, 2007, 2:55 AM

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Re: Dual Tuners - HDTV - suggestions [In reply to]

Just wanted to confirm something... your new DVico dual-channel card
does DVB-T ( non-usa ) and won't work with usa's ATSC format used
for OTA broadcast.... I'm not 100% up to speed on the different HDTV
signals... I am pretty sure that DVD-T <> ATSC and since I'm in the
US using ATSC... this won't work for me... DVico does not seem to
have any dual tuner ATSC cards.....

jack

On Nov 16, 2007 10:00 PM, Dan Cotter <dancotter2003 [at] hotmail> wrote:
>
> I just got the DVico Fusion HDTV Dual Digital 4. It has two HDTV tuners on
> the one card with one co-ax input. Its PCI but there is also a PCI Express
> version. I just followed the setup instructions here:
> http://fremnet.net/article/228/dvico-fusionhdtv-dual-digital-4-under-linux
> and everything worked perfectly. The only thing that doesn't work is the
> remote that comes with it because it plugs into the card, but apparently
> some people are working on this. I live about 60km from the broadcast towers
> and I get 66% signal strength and 0% or 1% signal noise on my outdoor
> antenna. Never had it glitch even once.
>
> Original Message:
> I have 2 hdtv, ota, tuner cards on my backend.....
> can anyone suggest a dual, 2 tuner hdtv card that
> I can replace them with. I'd prefer to get two tuners
> from a single PCI slot if possible, but they have to
> by HDTV cards that I can get OTA signals from.
>
> jack
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