DNTV Live! Dual Hybrid PCI-E S2 - Is it any good?

morphjk · **28th July 2008, 05:29 PM**

I am looking at getting the DNTV Live! Dual Hybrid PCI-E S2 and I am wondering if it is very good? I already have a TinyTwin but I don't want another USB tuner as there is some delay in th channel changes which I think is caused by the fact it is usb.

I know that a lot of people recommend the Hauppauge HVR-2200 but I am thinking that it is slighly more than I want to spend (or should I say allowed???) so thought the DigitalNow one may be the way to go (when it is available)

bigdonk · **28th July 2008, 05:35 PM**

they are a good tuner for the price, but watch out for the disappearing from device manager Harry Houdini act, when resuming from S3 sleep issue.....

for the extra $50 AUD, you'd most likely be better off with the HVR-2200

krypto · **28th July 2008, 06:42 PM**

Works fine on my VMC with latest drivers. Had one of the dual tuners go south after a Vista update, fixed with driver re-install. Oh and it has fast channel change.

Disappearing after sleep hasn't been an issue for ages.

morphjk · **29th July 2008, 01:29 AM**

Thanks for the replies. I don't use sleep really at all because after a while the TinyTwin drops out until I reboot it so I just reboot every so often.

TheRob · **29th July 2008, 12:13 PM**

Quote:

Originally Posted by krypto

Works fine on my VMC with latest drivers. Had one of the dual tuners go south after a Vista update, fixed with driver re-install. Oh and it has fast channel change.

Disappearing after sleep hasn't been an issue for ages.

I was never able to get mine working right, even with the latest drivers. The problem was very intermittent and sometimes the system would run well for a week without a problem, but then I'd get 'No Signal..." errors when selecting a channel or some message about not having a spare tuner when it was only recording one show. The latter was the most annoying because the only way I could fix it was to put it to sleep and wake it again, but if a recording was in progress this wasn't possible. Ended up having to watch analogue through the TV's tuner until the recording had finished

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I got sick of it and bought a HVR2200. Not one problem since I installed it. Sold the DNTV card and I'll be getting a second HVR2200 shortly.

morphjk · **31st July 2008, 07:24 PM**

I ended up ordering the Hauppauge HVR-2200 today. I thought it may be better to get the best card straight out rather than try and explain why I need to buy a different one later if things went wrong.