TBS 6284 PCI-E DVB-T2 Quad TV Tuner Card

[jamesdisco]

I'd be interested to know if anyone has one of these working natively with sage.
TBS6284 PCI-E DVB-T2 Quad TV Tuner Card

[Oddity]

Yes, see this thread. Have tested natively

http://forums.sagetv.com/forums/showthread.php?t=55957

Not using it as I need to use a plugin to decrypt channels.

[rickgillyon]

Originally Posted by Oddity

Yes, see this thread. Have tested natively
http://forums.sagetv.com/forums/showthread.php?t=55957
Not using it as I need to use a plugin to decrypt channels.

That thread's about a different card, OP here is asking about a quad-tuner freeview card.

[jamesdisco]

Originally Posted by Oddity

Yes, see this thread. Have tested natively

http://forums.sagetv.com/forums/showthread.php?t=55957

Not using it as I need to use a plugin to decrypt channels.

Originally Posted by rickgillyon

That thread's about a different card, OP here is asking about a quad-tuner freeview card.

I got excited there until i saw you linking back to the sat card. One each of these quad cards would do away with all the many others cards and usb tuners.

[rickgillyon]

Originally Posted by jamesdisco

I got excited there until i saw you linking back to the sat card. One each of these quad cards would do away with all the many others cards and usb tuners.

I think you should just buy one and test it for the community...

[jamesdisco]

Originally Posted by rickgillyon

I think you should just buy one and test it for the community...

I'm getting tempted, although I don't really want to add to my collection of redundant tuners, I must get some of them listed on ebay.

[rickgillyon]

Originally Posted by jamesdisco

I'm getting tempted, although I don't really want to add to my collection of redundant tuners, I must get some of them listed on ebay.

I had a clearout of my (s)crap cupboard at one point, and I had three tuners listed at a time for four weeks solid...

[brewston]

Its a shame Sage left no easy way to add tuner support isn't it ?

[Oddity]

Sorry about the link to the S2 card, there are two threads running with very similar titles.


Have seen the T2 card at but at $230 its outside my budget at the moment given that I have more than enough dvb and dvt-t2 sources available.

Maybe worth upgrading when there are more DVB-T2 channels available.

[jamesdisco]

Ive ordered one for my new server. I'll let you know how i get on.

[jamesdisco]

It works!

It doesnt get as good a signal as the pinnacle tuners. They are about 95% the TBS gets about 65-70% but recordings are coming out fine.

I bought mine here from a UK supplier who allowed me try it and send it back it it didnt work.

[jaminben]

How is the channel change speed? And I guess the HD channels work ok as well?

[jamesdisco]

Originally Posted by jaminben

How is the channel change speed? And I guess the HD channels work ok as well?

Channel change speed is same as pinnacle tuners sometimes get a brief no signal. (This only started happening in V7. V6 never did it.) Nothing like as fast as the changing on the TBS6984 which is noticeably quicker than my pinnacle tuners.
Cant test the HD channels as Bilsdale hasn't switched over yet. I dont see a problem as its meant to be DVB-T2 part of the reason i bought it.

[jaminben]

Originally Posted by jamesdisco

Channel change speed is same as pinnacle tuners sometimes get a brief no signal. (This only started happening in V7. V6 never did it.) Nothing like as fast as the changing on the TBS6984 which is noticeably quicker than my pinnacle tuners.
Cant test the HD channels as Bilsdale hasn't switched over yet. I dont see a problem as its meant to be DVB-T2 part of the reason i bought it.

Ok, thanks.... may have to get one of these over the festive season if I can.

[i0zjh02]

Hi Can you tell me did SageTV Scan and find the HD channels automatically or did you have to manually enter them in your frequency file ?

[i0zjh02]

Originally Posted by i0zjh02

Hi Can you tell me did SageTV Scan and find the HD channels automatically or did you have to manually enter them in your frequency file ?

Its OK, I tried it last night and finds all channels including HD ones (after ensuring all the right frequencies were being scanned), must say I'm really pleased with quality of this card so far, and has freed up all the slots my previous HVR-1700s were using!!

[mevans]

Hi all,

There have been no posts to this thread for a while, and i just wanted to see how people were getting on with this quad T2 card.

I'm thinking of adding it in to my WHS (v1) box, probably just using it for the HD channels only.

Has anybody used it with WHS?

As i understand it, SageTV v7 sees all of the tuners natively. is this true?

Cheers

Mevans

[pjwerdna]

Ive just tried the Dual tuner version of this card. (about two minutes ago!)

After putting the right freqency entry in the PredefinedDVBT.frq file for my transmitter I can get the HD channels picked up.

However I cant get it to play any HD channel as it always says "Sage.playbackexception: error (-5:0x80040200): there was a problem rendering the audio portion of the content for playback. SD channels are fine.

This is currently on Windows 7 test machine on which the media center plays back the HD channels without errors

So it partly works, but theres something not covered in a normal windows 7 install thats missing

[i0zjh02]

Originally Posted by mevans

Hi all,

There have been no posts to this thread for a while, and i just wanted to see how people were getting on with this quad T2 card.

I'm thinking of adding it in to my WHS (v1) box, probably just using it for the HD channels only.

Has anybody used it with WHS?

As i understand it, SageTV v7 sees all of the tuners natively. is this true?

Cheers

Mevans

Hi been using this quad tuner for 3 months now and must say its really good and had no problems at all - rock solid, tunes in relatively quickly and much less "blocky" reception issues than i had on my 4 previous hauppauge tuners (3xHVR 1700's and a HVR 1300)
Picked up all 4 tuners straight away and all channels on scan (once default frequency file corrected for proper Winterhill frequencies) - Would definitely recommend it

[jaminben]

Got one of these today Scanned all channels just fine and HD channels also so pretty pleased with that.

The only downside is that all my guide data which is over-the-air is all messed up with funny characters... never had this with my USB tuners. Anyone else seen this and know how to fix it?

Cheers

Ben