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TV Tuner Card advice

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  • 13-05-2012 1:17pm
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    Thomasheen
    Registered Users Posts: 571 ✭✭✭


    Looking into getting a tv tuner for my PC but I dont know too much about them. My motherboard is an ASRock Z68 Pro3 Gen3 so it should be compatible with most cards. We have a sky digital dish if that matters but I dunno I'm a noob at this stuff. Any questions or advice is appriciated thanks


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    Tea_Bag
    Registered Users Posts: 4,983 ✭✭✭Tea_Bag


    I don't know much about TV tuners, but I'd say you'll get plenty of advice on the HTPC forum:

    www.boards.ie/vbulletin/forumdisplay.php?f=643


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    peneau
    Registered Users Posts: 282 ✭✭peneau


    Thomasheen wrote: »
    Looking into getting a tv tuner for my PC but I dont know too much about them. My motherboard is an ASRock Z68 Pro3 Gen3 so it should be compatible with most cards. We have a sky digital dish if that matters but I dunno I'm a noob at this stuff. Any questions or advice is appriciated thanks


    I'm using a Hauppauge HVR-3000 tri mode tuner card (Analogue, DVB-T, DVB-S) using it with DVB Viewer Pro software as the software that was/is supplied with this card was pretty much a dog to use. I think this card may be discontinued but there is a replacement product the HVR-4400 which is HD compatible. I've been using the HVR-3000 for the past four years and never had any serious problems with it, it works very well with DVB Viewer Pro and has excellent recording capabilities. (http://www.hauppauge.co.uk/site/products/data_hvr4400.html

    HVR-4400 available here
    (http://www.amazon.de/Hauppauge-HVR-4400-WinTV-Card-DVB-T/dp/B003DKUFJK/ref=sr_1_1?s=computers&ie=UTF8&qid=1336920484&sr=1-1)

    I've a FTA system and connecting both Satellite and Terrestrial cables to the card I get the UK FTA channels and our own Saorview DVB-T channels using DVB Viewer Pro. Hope that helps


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