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Old 1st May 2006, 04:04 PM   #4 (permalink)
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Re: mixing tuner card brands

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Originally Posted by eepunk
  • mixing different brands
  • mixing different cards of the same brand
  • mixing different revisions of the same card
  • using multiple instances of identical revisions of the same brand card
ROFL!!!!!!!

you forgot to mention "Using a single Tuner Card under Microsoft Windows XP Media Centre Edition"


But EE is right...both have advantages and disadvantages...

Same - Low chance of Driver conflicts. Easy to mix up which card is which as they are labelled the same
different - possibility of driver issue. But very easy to distinguish the 2...hopefully
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