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euanandrews

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#21599 1-May-2008 21:30

Does anyone had any expereince with this brand or product in particular?

Pinnacle 7010i PCIe Dual DVB-T/DVB-S/Analogue TV/FM Radio/Tuner

I am looking to finally make my HTPC purchase next week, and just reviewing all my selection again, fine tuning...

I was thinking while I prefer and plan to have HD Terrestrial , I don't currently have an aerial but do have the dish for Satellite, currently getting Freeview via that...
And I may not be staying put, so am reluctant to fork out on something that may have to change...

That in mind, I have been looking at the Hybrid tuners...but I still want a dual tuner for recording and viewing at the same time...
I thought I might have to just settle for one tuner for now, so to have the flexibility to connect via different methods (DVB-T or DVB-S), and add another TV tuner later for the recoding ability...until I found this model.

Does anyone here know of it, the brand or the model?
Any recommendations?

eXDee

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#127742 1-May-2008 22:47

That looks like a really sweet card, so you can record 2 DvbS channels and 2 DvbT channels all at once?
4 plugs though means you'd need a splitter though? (or multiple dishes/lnbs)

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#127844 2-May-2008 11:02

What HTPC software will be using?

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#127900 2-May-2008 13:29

I am looking to finally make my HTPC purchase next week, and just reviewing all my selection again, fine tuning...

How did the saving go? Better than buying piece by piece? :)

euanandrews

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#128413 4-May-2008 15:25

eXDee: That looks like a really sweet card, so you can record 2 DvbS channels and 2 DvbT channels all at once?
4 plugs though means you'd need a splitter though? (or multiple dishes/lnbs)

Yeah thats what it says...4 channels at once...I dont know of any other TV Tuner that can do that, but more importantly, is its a hybrid, so can do both DVB-T and DVB-S...

I just dont read anything about how it handles H.264 (even though the graphics card I am looking at getting does H.264 decoding anyway)

mcraenz: What HTPC software will be using?

I had my heart set on Vista MC...but know of the difficulties that presents with DVB-T

But to start, I will just hook up to the satellite, so will initially be DVB-S, with the plan to later buy aerial for DVB-T

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#128414 4-May-2008 15:27

Satch:
I am looking to finally make my HTPC purchase next week, and just reviewing all my selection again, fine tuning...

How did the saving go? Better than buying piece by piece? :)

No doubt cheaper buying all in one gho from one retailer...but still gona cost an arm and a leg...I have not gone for the cheapest, I have gone for what I wanted in terms of specs, and the best for silence and cooling.

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#129514 8-May-2008 21:36

Found another one...

The Blackgold BGT3540 :: 6 in 1 :: Dual digital satellite, Dual digital terrestrial, Dual analogue terrestrial :: PCI express card

To what I read, sound like this brand is better known and supported than Pinnacle?

Anybody know of/used this brand/tv tuner?

Its more expensive than the Pinnacle, but sounds like it has had support from Microsoft to work with VMC...

Thoughts?

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#129572 9-May-2008 06:39

Getting up there in price but then it packs a lot of tuners in for that money.

Have you tried asking on XPMediaCentre.com.au? They have much higher numbers of people that may have experiance with these cards.

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