Member Review/Opinion Tiny USB2 Digital Tuner Review - Page 2

waj158 · **19th August 2005, 11:08 AM**

Just received my Dual HDTV Tuner drom DigitalNow, ordered yesterday afternoon and recieved this morning, super fast delivery. Thanks Renura.

Now just have to get it into my HTPC and see how it goes.

natrat · **23rd August 2005, 11:53 PM**

Fantastic review, thanks

Do you know if there are any specific problems with running a PCI tuner with a USB tuner, or should they both work fine? I'm thinking of getting a Shuttle SB83G5M which only has 1 pci slot, but want to be safe to add another external tuner via usb in future.

ta,
nathan

impact · **24th August 2005, 12:26 AM**

Nathan - you should have no problems.... I did test and play with a tiny usb2 and visionplus in the same machine - they worked fine...

natrat · **24th August 2005, 08:41 PM**

Great, thanks Impact

strangecity · **25th August 2005, 07:27 PM**

Yes It should work fine

I am using a similar setup
fusion HDTV T1 and a tinyUSB2
shuttle Zen XPC (st62k) with one PCI slot
if using MCE make sure you use the latest tinyUSB2 MCE driver (from digitalnow website) and you may also need to use a custom psidec.dll if still having tuning problems

benfoo · **31st August 2005, 04:11 PM**

Thanks for such a great review.

When I was about to order it, workmate of mine told me that he saw a look-alike product in the net but comes with analogue tuner and can receive FM as well. He can't remember the name or the website where he saw it.

Is there such product? If yes, please tell me about it.

Cheers,
bf

impact · **31st August 2005, 05:01 PM**

I believe there is... and I know that digitalnow are about to deliver on something similar too....

Though - do remember - if your using digital tv, MCE can not make use of the FM radio or analogue inputs.... You could use other software for these though...

Check dvbowners.com.au or dba.org.au forums and you may find some links to such products....

Magz · **29th September 2005, 02:24 PM**

Has anyone had the opportunity to test this with HD Channels yet and Rollup2?

I am curious to know if it will support HD or just SD?

Also if it will allow recording of HD?

djhampson · **29th September 2005, 02:38 PM**

Magz,

I've got a Tiny USB and a Fusion HDTV tuner in my MCE. Before I installed rollup 2 the Fusion card worked 'Out-of-the-box' while the Tiny USB required the Psiscd.dll hack before it would work with Nine and SBS.

Installed Rollup 2 and now Tiny USB works perfectly, HD, SD and Digital Radio. The fusion however can't tune properly. I can't win!

The tiny USB is far better than the Dvico for signal strenght anyway, but in aswer to your query HD works perfectly.

And while some are complaining about RU2 deleteing guide data I've yet to see this problem myself.