Dual HD tuners on one card PRO and CON

Strengths: Dual tuners that support NTSC/ATSC/QAM with only a single connection. Dual MPEG2 Hardware accelerated controllers for SD content. All in a single PCIe card.

Weakness: A single connection for HD content.

If you want to use this card to record HD content from an OTA source this is GREAT. If like a lot of people you get HD content from a cable provider this is a no go. Since most STBs do not send HD content out on the coax line and how do you combine two STBs output on 1 coax.

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Replaced the two PVR150s with this single card

Strengths: Dual tuner NTSC and ATSC tuners PCIx1 MCE Remote with 2 blasters

Weakness: The dual tuners are connected to the same source line.

I get some noise in the picture/capture coming from OTA HDTV trasmissions, but I think that's probably due to interference rather than the card (I get the same on my TV hooked up to the same antenna).

If your going to setup a Media Center machine then I think there are only two choices. MythTV if you want to run linux or GBPVR if your are running Windows (where I am right now). Both fully support the card and I may be moving to Linux shortly as I don't need the MediaMVP support anymore.

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Hauppauge WinTV HVR-2250 PCIe

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