Let's pick the best tuners! - Page 2

I would hold off on the Duet. I ordered 2 of them and one of them is defective. Customer service has been very slow to respond to my RMA even though I have filed all the required info. It's been 8 days and they claim most RMA's are proccesed in 1 business day.

>> Come on Ceton, release those 4X tuners already!!!

+1

I've had no problems with my HVR-1250 in Win7 HP x64. Just use the drivers from Windows Update.

Strange, mine caused the system to constantly crash, and I did use the drivers from Windows Update. Must have been either the combination of this card and the Intel DX52SO mobo, or my Hauppauge card was faulty.

Either way, getting and installing the AverTV hybrid volar max solved all the problems I had.

That would have been my choice too. It wasn't available when I purchased the Vista View's. Don't get me wrong, I'm reaaly happy with them, just missing the radio portion.

Yes let us know how it is especially PQ on NTSC.

Thanks,

OK, guys, here's a test. I have and happily use an HD-PVR (component from 2 HD satellite receivers) and an HDHomeRun (dual ATSC antenna connections), between the two my HD needs are fully met.

However, I also have the need to record, on the fly, the S-Video signals from a non-HD Dishnetwork receiver, and a DirecTV HR22 HD receiver. This is just to grab short interviews, news reports, etc, from SD satellite channels. For several years I've been happily using a Hauppauge Win-TV-PVR 250 for this purpose, with SageRecorder software (no longer supported, doesn't work with newer cards.). Moving up to a new HTPC now though, and the PVR 250 will also no longer be supported... so I''m looking for a simple NTSC card (PCI-E) with the very best PQ and hopefully simple, on-the-fly recording software. I have absolutely no need for ATSC, QAM, FM, etc, but I don't care if they're on the card... I don't have to use them.

I was narrowing in on the Asus My Cinema cards, but not sure about their software. Will it allow on-the-fly recording? These news reports, etc, can't be scheduled ahead of time.

I should mention this will be on a Win 7 32 or 64 bit computer (I have one of each, could use either one.)

Thanks for any suggestions.

I'm happy with my Duet A188 for ATSC.

I'm thinking about getting the Avermedia duet A188. A lot of newegg reviews mentioned issues with the card not working properly or not being detected when the computer wakes from sleep mode. Does anyone with this card have this issue??

Sound like somethibg else is the root cuase to your problem do you have asus motherboard? what is full spec of your system.
Some thing to beware of 16x slots where made to usely only to work with Video card.


I never have problem with ClearQAM in fact min of us SageTV user have this board.
What wrong with WinTV7? I think far better then anything they ever done sure there somethings missing but sure in time we see thoses miss features like we had in WinTV2k/6.

Yep, I'm having this problem right now. Haven't heard back from Avermedia yet. I saw a possible fix posted somewhere that if you go into Power Management in Win7 and turn PCIe power saving features off that the problem will go away. We'll see...

Please keep us posted if turning off the power saving feature solves the problem.

now that you have everything just the way you want it install acronis and create a os image and store it on another hd, os recovery made easy.

are these two considered the top tv tuners:
AVerTV Combo G2
Saber DA-1N1-E Combo Analog/Digital PCI TV Tuner Card

also do these both work with windows media center?

I know how to fix that........

Marry Her!!

Terratec H5, H7, terratec cinergy HTC XS HD.
I have latest card, perfect image, stability, etc.
Hd looks good, radio sound are very good.

I've been using 2 Duet whitebox models since they were released. I've had no problems once they were setup in SageTV and 7MC. If I had another PCIe slot I'd get another one.