Any dual DVB-T2 USB tuners?

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mrsilver

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Any dual DVB-T2 USB tuners?

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Post by mrsilver » Tue Oct 21, 2014 9:46 pm

Following up from this thread over a year ago, has the situation with dual USB DVB-T2 tuners become any better?

TBS appear to have completely discontinued the TBS5280 and my searches for something that I can replace my existing DVB-T2 dual USB tuner are not going as well as I'd hoped.

Last resort will be to probably run both the WinTV-NOVA-TD and the 290e together with a signal splitter - but that's going to make the cable situation under the TV even messier than it currently is :(

Any suggestions or pointers where to get the TBS5280 or some other alternative? Amazon, ebay, TBS' own website, BuyDVB and Aliexpress (whoever they are) have nothing.

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Post by CyberSimian » Wed Oct 22, 2014 12:16 pm

mrsilver wrote:TBS appear to have completely discontinued the TBS5280
Yes, they have. It was replaced by the TBS5281:

http://www.buydvb.net/tbs5281-dvbt2tc-d ... p-102.html
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/TBS5281-DVB-T ... 1166040843

I have never seen a UK stockist selling either the TBS5280 or the TBS5281, so if you want one you probably need to buy from abroad. (I have no experience with either of the above sellers, so cannot comment on the service that they provide.) The TBS5281 uses a different tuner chip (I think that the tuner chip used in the TBS5280 was discontinued). There are updated versions of the TBS PCI-E cards too (TBS6285 replaces TBS6284; TBS6281 replaces TBS6280).

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Post by mrsilver » Wed Oct 22, 2014 2:29 pm

Looks promising, thanks. Does anyone have any experience of the TBS5281?

I can't seem to find any reviews on it.

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Post by anotherother » Mon Oct 27, 2014 10:25 pm

Hi,
just spotted Blackgold have a new range of USB tuners on their website, BGT3710 and BGT3720 are T2, but it doesn't say whether they are dual tuners.
their last USB stick, the BGT3555 was dual tuner but only DVB-T.
the website also doesn't seem to list any drivers for this range, so as usual with blackgold, maybe wait for a few months for things to settle down.

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Post by mrsilver » Thu Oct 30, 2014 3:20 pm

anotherother wrote:Hi,
just spotted Blackgold have a new range of USB tuners on their website, BGT3710 and BGT3720 are T2, but it doesn't say whether they are dual tuners.
their last USB stick, the BGT3555 was dual tuner but only DVB-T.
the website also doesn't seem to list any drivers for this range, so as usual with blackgold, maybe wait for a few months for things to settle down.
Nice find!

The only difference between the two appears to be that the BGT3720 is mini-USB whereas the BGT3710 is "normal" USB. I didn't even know there were any computers/laptops out there with a mini-USB port - you learn a new thing every day :)

Given that the PCTV 292e nanoStick is a single DVB-T2 tuner and retails for about the same price (Amazon has the 290e for £47.20 whereas the BGT3710 is £46.80) my gut feel is that it is a single tuner :(

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