<div class="gmail_quote"><div>This is a somewhat academic update.</div><div><br></div><div>After more or less giving up on this card, I put it in an old Debian (Lenny) machine and loaded dvb-utils. To my surprise, it just worked, no tweaking. OK, when I say it worked, I could reliably tune and view one of the tuners. With no module options, it was the first tuner. With module options, it was the second, but never both.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Anyway, I at least verified the card "works"...</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"><div><div class="h5">>>> I bought that card (with a single connector) last year. After about 3<br>
>>> moths of fighting with poor reception (albeit only on the TVNZ<br>
>>> multiplex) I returned the card as faulty and got it replaced with the<br>
>>> 'dual connector' one. That one didn't perform any better, and<br>
>>> ultimately I got the HVR-2200 that worked beautifully from the first<br>
>>> kick. I still use the Nova, but just for recording from the non-TVNZ<br>
>>> multiplexes.<br>
>>> In my opinion the card is simply not that great and there are others<br>
>>> out there that perform much better.<br>
>><br>
>> That seems to be a common conclusion when discussing this card (either version)<br>
><br>
> Agreed. I have since sold my 2x cards, but they worked fine as long as I had tons of signal strength. They are no good if you have a weak signal or bad infrastructure.</div></div></blockquote></div><br><div>So I am assuming my signal conditions are such that it won't work satisfactorily in my location. And given the above comments, I think I'll hang out for an HVR2200 as I have a reliably working HVR1200.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Thanks to all who replied.</div><div><br></div><div>Brendan</div>