These cards can be bought for $70 so represent pretty good value (yes I hear you saying "If they work") As I could not find a review on this card I bought a couple on eBay, one for $42 (as new) and the other $70.00 (new).
It also used the Philips silicon chip so made me more comfortable.
Features
• Antenna ready DVB-T Silicon Tuner
• Universal Analog TV Silicon Tuner
• S-Video/composite video inputs
• Listen to DVB radio
• Listen to FM radio
• HDTV 1080i ready (For Digital TV only)
• DVB-T is compatible with Microsoft MCE 2005
http://global.msi.com.tw/index.php?f...32&cat2_no=261
These were purchased to try a low spec HTPC build on the bits and pieces I had left over from my many attempts to get a stable MCE machine working (and as no one would buy them on Marketplace
) If you look at my other rig it is pretty well spec'd (E6400, 2 Gig 667 RAM, 7600GS PCI x16 video, and DigitalNow Dual Digital PCI-Express DVB-T Receiver)
Failing the low spec machine working I was going to use the cards as 3rd tuners in my brothers and my machine, so no big deal if it didn't work
My low spec machine is:
MCE2005
nVidia PureVideo decoder
Pent 4 socket 478 2.8 Prescott (overclocked to 3.0 because I can!) This CPU is a few generations old.
Zalman CNPS7700 copper CPU cooler
512M DDR 400 RAM
Asus P4P800S-X ATX mobo
Leadtek 6600GT AGP video
Creative Audigy Value sound because onboard coax SPDIF/SoudMax causing sound stutters
Sata 1.5 250Gig Partitioned 12/220 System/Data and Barracuda ATA 120 Gig for recorded TV
2 x MSI TV @nywhere
Well I have to say so far it is all good. Cards installed with no problems, scanned all channels and I am currently recording two HD channels and all seems good.
I'm starting to wonder why I spent so much on my high spec machine???
I'll update in a few days on how it is going.
