TV tuner card/stick

[LJW61]

Can anyone reccomend from recent experience a good brand/model of digital/freeview TV tuner either PCI or USB (around £30) ?

 

[Richard C]

I have an old analogue Huppage WinTV PCI card into which I’ve plugged a redundant digi box. It works well but I think this will be the last MoBo I will be able to use it on. The old PCI card format is virtually on its last legs & new MotherBoards are going over PCI-E X 16. I don’t think it will be long before PCI disappears completely so a PCI Tuner card may have a limited life. As far as I'm aware USB TV tuners require USB2 & will not work on legacy USB 1.1 so check what you have.

 

[holmslaw]

I have a Hauppage and would NOT reccomend it.

The instructions are incomprehensible and the EPG is useless.

For those reasons I hardly ever use it.

 

[Richard C]

This is also a double post

 

[Monkeh]

I have a Hauppage and would NOT reccomend it.

The instructions are incomprehensible and the EPG is useless.

For those reasons I hardly ever use it.

Third party software is easily and freely available if you don't like what's supplied. The hardware is fine.

 

[holmslaw]

Monkeh, have'nt used it for couple of years, lost interest.

I did try other software but could'nt make it work.

Could you recommend any software and how you them work together.

Thanks

 

[Monkeh]

Depends on the hardware, is it DVB-T or analogue only?

 

[holmslaw]

Thanks Monkeh, it's a 'NOVA-DT Dual DVB-T Tuner Device'

 

[Monkeh]

Nova-TD 500 by any chance? Those can be fun.

I use ProgDVB with some success. It's.. a little ugly, somewhat difficult to initially set up, but once it's going it works fine. I've never used the EPG, though.