Three different TV tuners?

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Three different TV tuners?

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Post by ipguy » Sun Jul 19, 2015 11:42 am

Hi

I currently have 2 x WinTV Dual DVB-T tuners and was wondering if I can install a third TV tuner, a Leadtek PCI DTV2000DS ?

In other words, can I have a mixture of TV tuners from different manufacturers ?

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Post by DavidinCT » Sun Jul 19, 2015 2:36 pm

Yes, I have done this in the past, this will work. Time to time there can be some issues, like if a tuner is slower than the other tuner for channel changes, it could cause performance issues but, overall media center handles it very well.

The Only Out of the box limits is a max of 4 of each type of tuner. 4 X cablecard, 4X OTA, 4X QAM, etc....but, as you might know with a 3rd party plug in this can be extended.
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Post by ZippyTheChicken » Mon Jul 20, 2015 8:05 pm

the only problem I had was driver issues but in my case I couldn't even use 2 tuner cards at the same time..
I have ASUS My Cinema-EHC3-150NAQFMAVRC
both would work separately but not together
what can you say they cost me $15 each

but yes as the previous person said you can do this if the drivers work together
your other solution would be Network tuners like a SiliconDust or SimpleTV
I have a simpleTV .. it does work but support for it is a bit limited.

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Post by Bunk_Tuppins » Mon Jul 20, 2015 11:02 pm

I have been using AVerTV Hybrid Volar Max and Diamond ATI TV Wonder HD750 together for about a year on a Dell laptop with Windows 7 Premium. They are recognized fine by WMC and work smoothly together.

Just came across this forum because of the EPG cutover (thanks all, reconfigured tv and used Guide tool to fix a few discrepancies and the guide rolls on!).

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Post by ipguy » Sun Jul 26, 2015 5:51 am

I just installed a fusionhdtv dvbt-t dual tuner PCI card along with my 2 x WinTV 2200 but MCE only wants to use 4 tuners not the 6

Any suggestions?

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Post by ipguy » Sun Jul 26, 2015 6:02 am

ipguy wrote:I just installed a fusionhdtv dvbt-t dual tuner PCI card along with my 2 x WinTV 2200 but MCE only wants to use 4 tuners not the 6

Any suggestions?
I presume I need this ?

http://www.mychannellogos.com/tunersalad-dl

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