Go give it a try. Its a very small download.
You get the utility from here:
http://www.salloway.org.uk/mediacent...ndex.htm#tuner
In the left box should be the Bluebird tuner, in the right the FusionHDTV tuner.
For the Bluebird, untick "Use this card to watch Live TV with first" and tick "Use this card to record with first".
For the FusionHDTV, TICK "Use this card to watch Live TV with first" and UNTICK "Use this card to record with first".
Leave both ticked for "Enable for MCE" (although, whenever MCE uses the Bluebird tuner, you will have the CH10 problems - so you might just want MCE to ignore it and untick it for Bluebird). I have left both ticked even though I have SBS problems with the Bluebird tuner. Like I said, eventually I will get a different card.
There is a note on the utility download page, "The priority settings only affects which card is to be used if both are not currently in use, you may not get your preferred choice under all circumstances." Which means, even with this setting, there is the odd occasion when the Bluebird tuner might get selected.
I'll explain briefly what made me think there were issues with one tuner and not the other. The default priority tuner has been the Bluebird, so I have had several times when MCE has frozen up while watching LiveTV and I have had to control-alt-delete and cancelled the application back to windows, then I would restart MCE and the channels were changing much faster and SBS was working? I was getting curious, so I control-alt-deleted MCE again and went back in. Was editing my channel list, and MCE went to preview the current channel I had the mouse hovering on and there was a box that popped up saying both my tuners were still in use, and that I had to cancel one. SO, when MCE first crashed, that tuner (the Bluebird), was left "in-use". So when I went back into MCE, thats why it defaulted to the FusionHDTV tuner and things worked. I remembered a program I had seen while looking for Media Center untilities that allowed you to select the first tuner used - problem solved. Now I have read the USB tuner receives a signal 2-3 db lower than the signal the PCI tuner gets. That would be why the Bluebird doesn't play CH10 well for you, but the other one does. And the reason why it seems intermittent is because you never knew which tuner was in use.
This tool won't make CH10 work - it already does work!! It allows you to tell MCE to use the FusionHDTV tuner instead of the USB one because the signal the USB tuner is getting is too weak.
One other thing worth noting, I also have a Gigabyte Motherboard. But personaly, I don't think that is the problem. I might try changing the USB part of the tuner from the internal pin connection method to the external cable method (if you know what I'm talking about), to see if that makes any difference. But my theory is that the USB tuner gets a lower signal, which is what is causing your CH10 and my SBS not to work on it.
Please keep me updated.
) when I set it to record anything on 10, it records fine and i can watch another channel at the same time, and if I go the the guide, and select channel 10 its working, but only while recording.
- Low/No Signal issues (which I always put down to needing an antenna upgrade, but at the time was renting), and very slow channel changes which really annoyed me when I was channel surfing (I now know both were associated with the average Dvico tuner). The last issue is LiveTV motion stutter 
with some programs on TV on all channels. I say some programs because some play smooth some don't. I believe its to do with if the program being broadcast is NTSC or PAL. And I think it because The Vista Media Center (VMC) program changes the refresh rate to 60Hertz everytime it starts up, where in Australia, most local TV is 50Hertz, so VMC - or the decoder (I use PureVideo by the way - which is not fully compatible with VMC - but still works way better than the Microsoft one) - or the Graphics card - don't handle the conversion very smoothly.
