Anyone running 2 twinhan cards (sat and freeview)?

[chicky]

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

 

[Lancelot]

ProgDVB 4.70 onwards says it supports more than one device at a time.

www.progdvb.com



Rgds


L.

 

[chicky]

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

 

[Woody44]

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.

 

[chicky]

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

 

[gromit4x4]

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:http://www.satellites.co.uk/php-bin/forum/showthread.php?t=56901&highlight=nebula

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/products/products.asp?class=DigiTV

 

[chicky]

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)?

 

[chicky]

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.

 

[Woody44]

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

The usb version I have does NOT have top-up tv capabilities. No card slot, no cam facility.
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.

 

[chicky]

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

 

[chicky]

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.

 

[chicky]

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.