[linux-dvb] Twinhan 1034? Or some other DVB-S twin-tuner?

[Stroller]

On 29 Dec 2006, at 11:47, Manu Abraham wrote:
> Stroller wrote:
>> ...
>> I like look of the Twinhan 1034 because:
>> - it's available [3]
>> - it has twin tuners,
>
> The 1034 has only a single tuner, based on the MB86A16, while the
> VP-6090 has (quad tuner) 2xMB86A16 and 2xTDA10046, but ...
> is not supported yet at the moment.

Arg! I don't know how I ended up thinking the 1034 had dual tuners!!  
Perhaps "twin" in the manufacturer's name gave me that idea in the  
first place, but after all the research I did on this model I would  
have thought I'd have realised my mistake at some point!! :(

Looking at [1] suggests that the only DVB-S card with twin tuner  
(marked on that list as "Sat in x 2") is the DVICO FusionHDTV DVB-S  
[2] but this doesn't seem readily available, nor is it listed as  
MythTV-compatible [3] [4]

So I guess for my purposes - watching free UK satellite TV - then I'm  
simply best buying Hauppauge Nova-S card(s). I'll need to use more  
PCI slots to get if I want to record & view different channels  
simultaneously, but the Hauppauge are easy to get hold of and I'm  
guessing they're also well-supported?

Any comments?

Stroller.


[1] http://www.linuxtv.org/wiki/index.php/PCI_devices_DVB-S
[2] http://www.fusionhdtv.co.kr/eng/Products/DVBS.aspx
[3] http://mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/Video_capture_card#DVB_cards
[4] http://digitalboy.mythtvtalk.com/files/MythTvTunerGuide.pdf