[mythtv-users] Looking at new OTA ATSC tuners, which would be better to get, PCIe or PCI?

Raphael rpooser at gmail.com
Sat Jun 21 19:29:35 UTC 2008


Justin The Cynical wrote:
> The only advantage I can think of would be the assurance that multiple 
> tuners going at once would not have any issues with bus congestion.
> 
> Are there any other advantages?
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Well, since most motherboards come with a few PCIe x1 slots now, and you 
basically have next to nothing to put in them, meanwhile having less 
regular PCI slots, a PCIe tuner was welcome for me. I got the HVR1250. 
There are a couple of others on the v4l-dvb wiki.
So the other advantage is simply you can put more tuners in your machine 
once you're out of regular PCI slots!


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