i see a lot of people like and recommend the tbs tuner cards so i am doing a poll to see which card is most popular as i am considering becoming a US distributor of tbs tuner cards
Which TBS Tuner card would you buy ?
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Depends on the price point, OS, and what you use a card for.
If you're intro steam analysis, feed hunting and use windows I guess the tbs 6983 is the cream of the crop.
If you use linux and are into feed hunting and stream analysis then the 5925 or 6925 are the best of the best. If you don't have the budget for those then the skystar2 express hd or tbs 5980 will get you almost as much for a third the price.
Many users don't have PCI slots and the skystar / 5980 are better cards and in the same price point.
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If you're intro steam analysis, feed hunting and use windows I guess the tbs 6983 is the cream of the crop.
If you use linux and are into feed hunting and stream analysis then the 5925 or 6925 are the best of the best. If you don't have the budget for those then the skystar2 express hd or tbs 5980 will get you almost as much for a third the price.
Many users don't have PCI slots and the skystar / 5980 are better cards and in the same price point.
UDL
I'll add to that if your creating a headend and just need as many tuners as possible and only have one PCIe slot the Digital Devices octopus device is amazing, its not cheap but its a great card and you get upto 8 tuners on one PCIe slot, pretty impressive. You can even add more, you could create some crazy high amount of tuners in one small box pretty easily.
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As UDL Stated the 6983 is pretty much the cream of the crop.Myself I could not justify the extra 100 + bucks ( over the 6982) just for the ability to do ACM or VCM.The TBS 6982 is what I put in the new rig and like it alot.
Using a TBS6985 DVB-S2 Quad Tuner PCIe Card with TVHeadEnd, works quite well.
I do recall having to do something to make sure the card does not share an interrupt (IRQ) with anything else, but don't recall exactly what offhand. Without that the card would still work but once in a while would stop working until I rebooted.
I do recall having to do something to make sure the card does not share an interrupt (IRQ) with anything else, but don't recall exactly what offhand. Without that the card would still work but once in a while would stop working until I rebooted.
I recently ordered a TBS6983 and am currently awaiting its arrival. Titanium has one too, but I don't think he's had a chance to set his up yet.
Hopefully we will not have to deal with IRQ sharing issues. But if we do, I'm sure we'll get around it somehow.
If a lot of us here get TBS6983's we will really be able to help each other if we run into problems.
Will likely be ordering one (BS6983) soon here too... Need it to run on Linux so might wait for UDL to support it with his project. Have a nice motherboard and processor, currently fedora 20, but I need a box to put it in before mounting anything more onto it... It's currently running as an Apache web server backup. Once I replace my current work windows PC with a new one I can switch the web stuff over to it and have a box for my HTPC parts.
Slow progression, but sure...
Slow progression, but sure...
If your just building a HTPC then you'll probably wont be feed hunting or doing signal analysis. Most HTPC apps arent set up for this, and I dont blame them, imo its two different area's of the hobby. The TBS6983 is a great card but honestly for a HTPC user you'd be better off getting something cheaper like the TBS5980 or Skystar2 ExpressHD. The difference between the 6983 and the Skystar/5980 are things you wont need in a HTPC. Yes the 6983 is a dual tuner
Im leaving shortly on a course, I'll be gone a little over 2 months. I do plan on buying one in the spring though and adding an open source driver for it. Trust me, this is a card Ive been waiting for for quite awhile
UDL
Im leaving shortly on a course, I'll be gone a little over 2 months. I do plan on buying one in the spring though and adding an open source driver for it. Trust me, this is a card Ive been waiting for for quite awhile
UDL
I got my TBS6983 card on Friday and it makes the closed/proprietary boxes look like child's play. I think open source cards and boxes will eventually dominate sales -- especially among hobbyists.
just started to play around with these cards, got the tbs6983. any luck getting it install under ubuntu? I've been trying for a full day now .. I get nothing..
I haven't tried in Ubuntu yet but in windows it works great with EBSpro and progdvb I am waiting till updatelee adds support so I can run it with the updatedvb software he created
In addition to the WIN software that jmc98 mentioned, I use the tbs6983 with CrazyScan and TSReader. Have yet to install on a Ubuntu machine.
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