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Home » Updates » Audio & Multimedia » AVerMedia A700 PCI DVB-S Now that I have Windows 7 installed I would like to get multiple TV tuners up & running on my HTPC. My current TV Signal options are: Sky Satellite, UPC Digital Cable, Basic analog output from UPC Digital Cable & Irish DTT (Trial- yet to be launched).

I currently have an "Avermedia A16C Hybrid DVB-T/Analog" card with a "digital" UPC STB as my TV input. This is input from the UPC STB through Scart-> composite video + L Audio +R Audio. AFAIK this is actually an Analogue signal, controlled by IR blaster on STB, providing >70 channels. Needless to say the picture quality is not the best (washed-out), though I think this is more down to the Scart RGB connection than anything to do with my TV tuner card. However, quality has improved under W7, so unless I could get a better quality card with composite connections then I will continue to use this as is.

I had originally thought about Freesat through a DVB-S2 card, but any installation of a satellite dish has unfortunately been ruled out by 'er indoors

I only have one spare PCI slot, so I would like a PCI card that could do Dual DVB-T (Irish DTT- Mpeg4: 4 Channels) AND Analog (UPC STB Basic Analog: 17 channels) at the same time. Any card I have seen seems to have Dual DVB-T OR Dual Analog i.e. I want to watch/record both DVB-T & Analog simultaneously. As these would have to be both UHF/F-Connector Aerial inputs, is it possible to get a Dual card that could do this?