What's the highest quality dual tuner PCIe card?

mkanet · #1 05-30-2007, 09:31 PM

I noticed the Cat's eye card is supported in SageTV. Someone old me they suck when it comes to reception. Can someone please recommend me the best one I can get for SageTV?

mikesm · #2 05-30-2007, 10:12 PM

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Originally Posted by mkanet

I noticed the Cat's eye card is supported in SageTV. Someone old me they suck when it comes to reception. Can someone please recommend me the best one I can get for SageTV?

QAM tuner or analog hook up? Do you really mean PCIe? Not too many tuners in that form factor yet...

Thanks,
mike

mkanet · #3 05-30-2007, 10:15 PM

Hey Mike, Im going to buy a new Vista based PC. Im going to get rid of my old Avermedia cards and looking for a dual tuner ATSC OTA PCIe card.

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Originally Posted by mikesm

QAM tuner or analog hook up? Do you really mean PCIe? Not too many tuners in that form factor yet...

Thanks,
mike

mikesm · #4 05-30-2007, 11:06 PM

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Originally Posted by mkanet

Hey Mike, Im going to buy a new Vista based PC. Im going to get rid of my old Avermedia cards and looking for a dual tuner ATSC OTA PCIe card.

Ah... Well, I'd very much recommend a no PCI(E) slot solution, the HDHomeRun. The price is right, has great support forums, and doesn't take up a slot. And it can act as a QAM tuner too, your choice for OTA or QAM.

Thanks,
mike

UFGrayMatter · #5 05-31-2007, 10:17 AM

#2 for HDHomeRun

TakeFlight · #6 05-31-2007, 10:47 AM

#3

Jesse · #7 05-31-2007, 11:13 AM

Hi,

Well, I get what I call good reception of OTA HD with my Vbox USB tuners. That said, I do not know if the USB version uses the same tuner as the pcie version.

It was pretty tricky getting HD reception nailed down (and I still loose a channel once in a while..). as I have a very dense, tall treeline between my antenna and the towers. Winter is no problem, and I am about 95% good even in the summer. On top of that my cable run is close to 100'.

Where did you hear that the vbox tuners were bad?

Jesse

KJake · #8 05-31-2007, 11:55 AM

Another vote for the HDHomeRun from me! I believe you can run it in dual ATSC, dual QAM, or one of each. I first ran it as dual ATSC and now it is in dual QAM. Word to the wise, make sure you follow their instructions to the word - it will save you a little time.

mkanet · #9 05-31-2007, 02:15 PM

Doesnt the HDHomeRun require an external network encoder app to run? I already have 2 separate network encoder apps running on my setup currently already. I dont want to end up running a third one. Hence, why I'm looking for a non-network encoder type dual tuner; preferably internal.

KJake · #10 05-31-2007, 02:27 PM

Yup, they have a manager app that needs to run on the SageTV server so that Sage sees the two tuners. I'm not sure that there is any extra load on the PC, but I can't confirm that.

TakeFlight · #11 05-31-2007, 03:21 PM

I always like things to be streamlined as well, but I've had no problems so far with the network encoder app. It's a relatively small app that really shouldn't be the deciding factor IMO.

Also, my understanding is eventually it may not be needed (although I have no idea what the timeframe is).

KJake · #12 05-31-2007, 03:33 PM

Yeah, if Sage supported it's BDA drivers naitively then the manager app wouldn't be needed.

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