0Blackgold: The ultimate TV tuner card?

Whilst look­ing for drivers for my Pin­nacle 3010ix freeview tuner I noticed Black­gold have a new ٹی وی tuner due on the mar­ket. The Black­gold BGT3630 looks pro­vi­sion­ally to tick all the boxes for me. It sup­ports DVB-T/T2 AND DVB-S/S2 as well as Ana­log and Cable DVB-C!  So everything and the kit­chen sink. The card is also sup­plied with low and full pro­file brack­ets and fits a PCI-E 1x slot. I sup­pose the only thing lack­ing is that it seems to only be a single-tuner for each format. Of course 2 cards solves that (if you have 2 pci‑e slots free in your HTPC)

If its not dual-tuner then an altern­at­ive and equi­val­ent solu­tion would be to get 2 cards — a BGT3620 for DVB-T/T2 and a BGT3595 for DVB-S2/S. This solu­tion would actu­ally provide dual DVB-S2, ڈبل DVB-T2 AND dual DVB-T, کی کل کے لئے 6 tuners!

اپ ڈیٹ: 1‑sept-2011

There are now bet­ter options from black­gold. The BGT3600 sup­ports dual DVB-T2, and dual DVB-S2. The BGT3650 offers quad DVB-S2. Both of these cards offer 4 tuners. A pair of them would offer a more-than-suf­fi­cient 8 tuners!