Latest opinions on dual tuner cards under Vista?

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Posted by Steve Procuniar on April 4, 2007, 4:18 pm

Just about ready to build a Vista MCE machine and wanted to pick everyone’s
brains regarding dual tuner cards. There’s tons of posts regarding this
issue but I just wanted to see what the LATEST opinions were regarding dual
NTSC and dual ATSC cards…

Which ones perform well and more importantly which ones play nice with Vista?

For the dual NTSC side my first impulse is to go with either the Hauppauge
WinTV-PVR-500MCE or the nVidia DualTV (however the buzz is that nVidia is
lacking somewhat on their Vista support). Thoughts/inputs?

For the ATSC side my first impulse is to go with the Avermedia AVerTVHD MCE
A180. Is there a dual tuner version of this card out yet? If not other dual
ATSC cards? Thoughts/inputs?

Posted by Gary Tsang on April 5, 2007, 1:05 am

For NTSC dual tuner, go with the Hauppauge PVR500. NVidia's support of that
product has been dismal, and I don't see it improving.

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> Just about ready to build a Vista MCE machine and wanted to pick everyone's
> brains regarding dual tuner cards. There's tons of posts regarding this
> issue but I just wanted to see what the LATEST opinions were regarding
> dual
> NTSC and dual ATSC cards.
> Which ones perform well and more importantly which ones play nice with
> Vista?
> For the dual NTSC side my first impulse is to go with either the Hauppauge
> WinTV-PVR-500MCE or the nVidia DualTV (however the buzz is that nVidia is
> lacking somewhat on their Vista support). Thoughts/inputs?
> For the ATSC side my first impulse is to go with the Avermedia AVerTVHD
> MCE
> A180. Is there a dual tuner version of this card out yet? If not other
> dual
> ATSC cards? Thoughts/inputs?

Posted by jolt on April 5, 2007, 5:38 am

The dual atsc ntsc tuner cards should also be considered if you would like
to keep the budget lower. The Avermedia M780 white box or Hauppauge HVR 1600
run 89.95 or less and would give you 4 tuners at a reasonable price.

http://www.pcalchemy.com/index.php/cName/hdtv-tuner-cards?osCsid=2495c695c0226e5223bc6b13e053b156"Steve

build a Vista MCE machine and wanted to pick everyone's> brains regarding dual
tuner cards. There's tons of posts regarding this> issue but I just wanted to

see what the LATEST opinions were regardingdual> NTSC and dual ATSC cards.>>
Which ones perform well and more importantly which ones play nice withVista?>>

For the dual NTSC side my first impulse is to go with either the Hauppauge>
WinTV-PVR-500MCE or the nVidia DualTV (however the buzz is that nVidia is>

lacking somewhat on their Vista support). Thoughts/inputs?>> For the ATSC side

my first impulse is to go with the Avermedia AVerTVHDMCE> A180. Is there a dual
tuner version of this card out yet? If not otherdual> ATSC cards?

Thoughts/inputs?

Posted by JW on April 5, 2007, 9:07 am

I concur. I saw one post from a user that had 2 1600 cards installed and
was able to record 2 NTSC programs and 2 ATSC programs at the same time
while playing back a 5th recording.

> The dual atsc ntsc tuner cards should also be considered if you would like
> to keep the budget lower. The Avermedia M780 white box or Hauppauge HVR
> 1600 run 89.95 or less and would give you 4 tuners at a reasonable price.
>

http://www.pcalchemy.com/index.php/cName/hdtv-tuner-cards?osCsid=2495c695c0226e5223bc6b13e053b156"Steve

> ready to build a Vista MCE machine and wanted to pick everyone's> brains
> regarding dual tuner cards. There's tons of posts regarding this> issue
> but I just wanted to see what the LATEST opinions were regardingdual> NTSC

> and dual ATSC cards.>> Which ones perform well and more importantly which
> ones play nice withVista?>> For the dual NTSC side my first impulse is to

> go with either the Hauppauge> WinTV-PVR-500MCE or the nVidia DualTV
> (however the buzz is that nVidia is> lacking somewhat on their Vista

> support). Thoughts/inputs?>> For the ATSC side my first impulse is to go

> with the Avermedia AVerTVHDMCE> A180. Is there a dual tuner version of
> this card out yet? If not otherdual> ATSC cards? Thoughts/inputs?
>

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