Help to choose a new dvb-T card

[aiacel]

I have to buy a new dv-t card, which is the best in GBPVR ?

[gEd]

nova-t 500 pci card - you get 2 tuners in one card and it is fully supported by gbpvr

[martint123]

Yup, agreed.

[aiacel]

thank you for the advices but the "nova-t 500 pci" isn't sold (yet) in Italy.
What about the "WinTV-NOVA-T-USB2 " ? Is it good card?
What is "PCI" better than "USB2" card ?

[gEd]

you can get one from pixmania who distribute all over europe. Here you go:

http://www.pixmania.com/it/it/356879/art...wintv.html

The USB2 also works fine BUT my USB2 used to duplicate my remote control signals, making it very difficult to use gbpvr.

I prefer the PCI because:
a) the remote control works perfectly
b) it is hidden inside the pc
c) it has 2 tuners which is VERY important to me.

[aiacel]

Thank you for your kidness.
1) Reading on forums I found that Nova-T 500 has a few problems:
a) waking up the PC, windows reinstall Nova-T device as 2 USB device
b) Remote control causes several issues and hangs
Do you confirm that ?

2) What do you think about Nova-T 500 (for DVB-T) and PVR150 MCE (for analog) ? Can them work together without problems?

[gEd]

I have not had any problems with my 500 card.

Based on the very quick look that I did on the hauppauge.co.uk forum, the S3 problems appear to relate to MCE and not the devices themselves.

I did used to have occasional wakeup problems with the usb2. It is difficult to say whether this is because of the usb2 device or my motherboard. I run a script to check the device status and restart it if necessary (all using the devcon command).

I was running a pvr-350 with my novat-500 and nova-t usb and it worked perfectly. Make sure that you only install the IR software for the device that will have the ir sensor installed.

[martint123]

Now my system has settled down it is much more stable and seems to wake from standby OK now.
Yes, it does seem to be a USB device with on-board USB chips, but I can't see a problem with that.
I don't use it's remote.
I have a pvr150 as well and use it's remote fine.
Install nova-t-500 bda drivers first, disbale IR on nova-t, install pvr15 drivers and then the pvr15 IR stuff and it seems to work fine.

Martin

[aiacel]

....I did used to have occasional wakeup problems with the usb2. It is difficult to say whether this is because of the usb2 device or my motherboard. I run a script to check the device status and restart it if necessary (all using the devcon command)..

Do you have that problem with NOVA-T USB2 or with NOVA-T 500 ?

[gEd]

the nova-t usb2. this problem be apparent when ir.exe would close after being restarted because it could not see the device.