[mythtvnz] What DVB-T tuners are people using?

[OpenMedia Support]

> On Fri, 3 Jun 2022 15:49:44 +1200, you wrote:
>
>>I've currently got a Hauppauge HVR-2200 dual tuner that I think is
>>failing, which is understandable as the card is about 12 years old.
>>
>>I do have a spare Hauppauge WinTV-dualHD USB Tuner I usually have for
>>debugging and travelling I can use for now, but I was wondering what is
>>popular in the DVB-T area these days. There doesn't appear to be a lot on
>>offer.
>>
>>Steven
>
> There is not much for sale in NZ, and the variety available worldwide
> seems to have decreased also.  I am using a TBS6209 8 tuner card:
>
> https://www.tbsdtv.com/products/tbs6209-dvb-t2-c2-tc-isdbt-octatv-tuner.html
>
> That is now an older card in the TBS lineup - there are now cards with
> even wider multi-standard support such as the TBS6209se (which does
> ATSC as well) and the TBS6508 which does not do ATSC but instead does
> both all the DVB-T/C standards and all the DVB-S standards.
>
> For my Sky recordings, I am using a TBS6909 8 tuner DVB-S2 card:
>
> https://www.tbsdtv.com/products/tbs6909-dvb-s2-8-tuner-pcie-card.html
>
> This is set up to use minisatip to do decryption using my Sky card,
> and MythTV uses rtsp: URLs on IPTV tuners to tune the channels via
> Sat>IP.  This is not using the v32 Sat>IP support as I was doing it
> well before v32.
>

Wow. Serious cards. Hardly use any of my tuners these days a lot of
recordings I just pull off IPTV streams
 - https://github.com/steven-ellis/mypvr-nz-iptv

DVB-S is handy for EIT data, and I've reasonably reliable DVB-T so I tend
to use that for TV3 as their streams are so low quality.