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14-07-2006
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My System: Dell PC + Twinhan sat-CI PCI card + Hauppauge WinTV Nova-t PCI card |
Hi all. I'm currently running a Twinhan PCI 1030a sat-ci card on XP with no issues but I'm contemplating buying a DVB-t PCI freeview tuner of some sort to sit alongside it. Maplin are selling Twinhan digital tuners at under £50 but just wanted to make sure that the 2 internal Twinhan tuners could live together first. I checked on the Twinhan website but they only state that you can't run the Twinhan analog tuner with the sat tuner.....pity they didn't mention running 2 digital tuners. Anyone got any experience of this? Alternatively is anyone running another make of DVB-t card alongside the Twinhan. Any help would be much apperciated. thanks C | ||
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My System: Dell PC + Twinhan sat-CI PCI card + Hauppauge WinTV Nova-t PCI card | Thanks Lancelot. Actually I've tried the latest version of progdvb but found it froze on quite a few channels that the shipped Twinhan viewer was ok with. It may be that my dish needs to be fine tuned as I set it up manually a couple of years ago without a sat finder....I'm going to try and retune it when I get chance. However, in case it's not the tuning issue, then I may need to rely on the Twinhan software so I would like a definite thumbs up that the shipped software works ok.....but thanks anyway. Regards C | ||
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14-07-2006
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Hi There. I currently use a Twinhan PCI card, and for freeview, I have an external USB Hauppauge WinNova T. These seem to co-exist ok, even though my computer is a bit on the old side (PIII, 550MHz). I didnt have a spare pci slot for a terrestrial card!! Hope this helps. Woody. | ||
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My System: Dell PC + Twinhan sat-CI PCI card + Hauppauge WinTV Nova-t PCI card | Thanks vey much Woody. I must say I had my heart set on a PCI card (not bothered which make it is particularly) but that does give me other options. Does the WinNova have a card slot for TopupTV or editable channel list, by the way? C | ||
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15-07-2006
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My System: HTPC: AMD Athlon 4200+ X2 | Twinhan sat CI DVB-S | Nebula DVB-T | iMON rsc | HD70 | Kenwood DVT7000 | Tannoy EFX5.1 | Moteck SG2100A | ISS 80cm | I am using a Nebula pci DVB-t card and a pci Twinhan DVB-s card, they both have the same fusion chipset and the work fine together with win xp. I can record with one whilst watching the other and vice versa, I know this doesn't directly answer your question but I thought it might help, more on my setup here:Newbie pcard advice Nebula also currently have a sale on and will soon be able to support topup tv with an addon card reader. HDTV, multi tuner setups are also possible more here: http://www.nebula-electronics.com/pr...p?class=DigiTV | ||
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17-07-2006
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My System: Dell PC + Twinhan sat-CI PCI card + Hauppauge WinTV Nova-t PCI card | Thanks Gromit4x4. That is comforting news that the 2 cards can live side-by-side. I was dreading splashing out 60-70 quid on a card that wouldn't work correctly. Can you manually tune the channels on the Nebula card by the way (using the supplied software or with MediaPortal or whatever)? | ||
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My System: Dell PC + Twinhan sat-CI PCI card + Hauppauge WinTV Nova-t PCI card | All......sorry to keep on about this but I've just about finally decided to plum for a Hauppauge WinTV Nova-t PCI card to augment my Twinhan VisionDTV Sat-CI card. Has anyone managed to get these 2 cards working together? Alternativly has anyone had any bad experiences of this combination. Thanks again. | ||
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However, the channel details ARE editable, and I am told it is possible to get at least one of the pay-tv channels open by using this method.  Woody. | |||
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17-07-2006
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My System: Dell PC + Twinhan sat-CI PCI card + Hauppauge WinTV Nova-t PCI card | Thanks again Woody......actually I believe there is a way to get top-up tv with Hauppauge tv cards (at least if this link on a rival forum is correct... http://www.hauppauge.co.uk/board/showthread.php?t=3137) That's what made my mind up for me (oh, and being able to manually edit the channels). C | ||
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20-07-2006
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My System: Dell PC + Twinhan sat-CI PCI card + Hauppauge WinTV Nova-t PCI card | I understand that hauppauge thread above has been unavailable....it's back up now. Take a look if you're interested in case it goes back down again. | ||
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16-08-2006
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My System: Dell PC + Twinhan sat-CI PCI card + Hauppauge WinTV Nova-t PCI card | Just thought it might interest some of you to know that I did splash out after on a new Hauppauge WinTV Nova-t PCI card and it's working fine alongside the existing Twinhan VisionDTV Sat-CI PCI card. I have never tried getting the 2 viewers running together, but they certainly work ok by themselves. | ||
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