Best PCI dual DVB-T & analogue card?

[unkle]

I want to be able to record things off my virgin cable box (so I need analogue right?) and also be able to watch / record free to air digital TV. Ideally I would like to be able to record 2 digital channels at once. Is there such a card. I've read the wiki guides and am still not 100% sure which is the best card to buy.

Thanks in advance for your help.

[martint123]

I've not seen anything that meets your needs to be able to record all three at once on one card. I ended up with a PVR150 to record from sky and use it's blaster to change channels and a Nova-t-500 for a pair of freeview tuners. The only limitation is that the analogue card has to have on-board mpeg compression - often difficult to see on specsheets where "mpeg" is sometimes done with the manufacturers software.

[unkle]

Thanks for the reply Martin. I only have 1 PCI slot so I think that is out of the question for me. Are the cards that can do 1 digital / 1 analogue hardware mpeg?

[martint123]

Are the cards that can do 1 digital / 1 analogue hardware mpeg?

Afraid I'm not sure about that one.

One possibility could be a dual dvb-t like a nova-t-500 and an external USB stick/box for analogue - AFAIK, a number of them have hardware compression (but I don't know which ones - sorry).

[stustunz]

hvr1300 does dvb-t and analog and says it has hardware encoding
not sure if you could recordfrom both at the same time though only has one tuner so i would say it cant

i would say usb is the only way you are going to get what you want

[psycik]

With the HVR3000 you can't record frm DVB-T and DVB-S at the same time.

Also the Analog has no hardware encoder..

[martint123]

The 1300 certainly has hardware encoding

"Record analogue TV shows to your PC's hard disk using our hardware MPEG-2 encoder. TV recordings will typically take 1,5 Gb of disk space per hour."

Sadly it looks like the UK Hauppauge forum has gone belly up, so asking about simultaneous recording would need a phone call.

[psycik]

The 1300 certainly has hardware encoding


Sadly it looks like the UK Hauppauge forum has gone belly up, so asking about simultaneous recording would need a phone call.

Sorry my mistake, I read HVR1300 as HVR3000.

This mornings coffee has not had any effect yet...

[unkle]

Thanks for everyone's help. I think I will go for the HVR1300