HTPC Dual Digital TV Tuner PCI-Express card

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  1. Da_Rude_Baboon

    Da_Rude_Baboon What the?

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  2. herbs

    herbs Nobody but us chickens

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    When they ever ship it, it might be good.
     
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  3. numbskull

    numbskull What's a Dremel?

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    Dual Digital PCI Freeview TV Tuner

    This card installs into a PCI slot. Because of the bandwidth limitation of PCI the second tuner feeds into a USB2.0 port from the back of the card.

    Fusion HDTV Dual DVB-T TV Tuner - PCI
     
    numbskull, 10 Jan 2006
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  4. specofdust

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    Digital TV needs more then 133MB/s? Thats..intresting, especially considering DVD quality recordings come in at around the 11MB/s mark tops. PCI should be more then sufficient for two digital streams, even with extras like soundcards using the bus.

    Welcome to bit-tech though numskull :)

    Anyway, the original link doesn't work, and if it is actually PCI-E as was said, then thats usefull in as much as that we've all got tonnes of 1 and 4x PCI-E slots sitting doing nothing, its about time something came out to use 'em, not that 1x PCI-E actually offers that much over old style PCI.
     
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  5. Guest-16

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    Fusion HDTV DVB-T Dual Freeview Digital.

    HDTV @ 1080p can be up to 25Mbit, so twice that, plus other data and considering it's a shared bus and you're using probably close to half the whole PCI bus continually isnt good.

    There was that PCIe one in the FS forum a few days ago.
     
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  6. specofdust

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    I'm pretty sure no DVB-T cards can recieve HDTV content, I may be missing something or just plain wrong, but thats what I thought. Even if it were up to 25MB/s, it won't be that most of the time, and good luck finding two HDTV channels in the uk or europe as a whole(DVB-T is mostly used in europe and the UK), I know its possible, but its not very likely that you're going to be using much more then about 20MB/s even if you're recording 24/7, so PCI is fine.
     
    specofdust, 10 Jan 2006
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  7. Guest-16

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    Dont look at me, I didnt invent it or NAME it. Maybe they just plumped on a single PCI and incorporated a standard USB one on the same PCB and called it a "dual".
     
    Guest-16, 10 Jan 2006
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  8. numbskull

    numbskull What's a Dremel?

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    Most DVB-T cards can receive HDTV content, it just isn't yet broadcast in Europe yet. All of the TV networks in Asia/Australia broadcast in HD using DVB-T, they have been for around 18 months. The Nebula DigiTV cards and the Fusion cards are both used widely in Australia for receiving HDTV.
     
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    Intresting stuff, didn't realise that. Even with HDTV streams coming over through it though, I still don't think anything more then PCI is neccesary.
     
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  10. IanW

    IanW Grumpy Old Git

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    The Terratec card in the first post can apparently be bought direct from them via this link.
     
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  11. herbs

    herbs Nobody but us chickens

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    Kustompc do the terratec card not sure if its in stock though, Numbskull does speak the truth about hdtv from dvb-t cards, infact if they do mpeg4 HDTV here the pc dvb-t cards should be able to cope with a software upgrade. France already use it on their pay for tv dvb-t signals.
     
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  12. Hazardous

    Hazardous What's a Dremel?

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    Every single one of the stock they were allocated were pre-ordered... such that they never actually appeared for sale in their shop [to my knowledge] :eeek:
     
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