will two tv tuner cards normally crash?

[markiloon]

does anyone have the experience to install two tv tuner cards from
different companies into a computer running Vista? will they normally/
definitely crash with each other?

many thanks for any responses!!
markiloon

 

[JW]

I have seen no reports of tuner cards from different vendors clashing. and
I have seen many reports of users using pairs of analog tuner and pairs of
digital tuner cards from different vendors.

 

[Charlie Tame]

does anyone have the experience to install two tv tuner cards from
different companies into a computer running Vista? will they normally/
definitely crash with each other?

many thanks for any responses!!
markiloon

I'd guess that a very old card that has fixed settings might cause a
problem but newer cards should not. Even if it did cause a problem you
might be able to change such things as IRQ etc in the BIOS but if we're
talking Vista there would probably not be any drivers for a card that
age anyway.

I'd suggest you use something like Acronis True Image and make a "Full"
backup when trying anything like this just to be sure you can recover.

 

[Robert Martin]

In theory it should work.
But you'd be better off using two of the same.
If one has Hardware decoding and the other uses Software it may cause a
problem.

I use 2 ATI 550's with no problems in BeyondTV.
Don't try Media Center. It's well worth the money for BTV
I can stream 2 channels at a time over my network.
Or watch the recorded stuff on any pc on the network.

Robert

 

[markiloon]

does anyone have the experience to install two tv tuner cards from
different companies into a computer running Vista? will they normally/
definitely crash with each other?

many thanks for any responses!!
markiloon

i am using a Compro Videomate H900 with hardware MPEG2 compression.

yesterday i wanted to add a Winfast PVR3000 Deluxe with hardware MPEG2
compression. i was about to buy it. but four salesmen from four
different computer shops told me two tv tuner cards from different
vendors would VERY PROBABLY clash with each other.

does anyone else other than Robert Martin who also has experiences
that two tv tuner cards do indeed not clash with each other?

again, thanks a lot for any responses!!

markiloon.