External TV Tuner options for Acer Revo 3600

FrankGrimes

I have just ordered an Acer Revo 3600 for £144 from eBuyer and plan on installing Windows 7 on it for use as a Windows Media Center TV. If it doesn't work out, I'll be passing it onto a mate who will use it as a HTPC just without the live broadcast TV functionality. I'll have 4GB of RAM in the Revo with 1GB dedicated to graphics.

What I'm trying to figure out now is what are my options for live TV, ideally I'd like to be able to watch/record 2 channels simultaneously. I'm in Dublin and am going to install a satellite dish to pick up free-to-air channels from the UK and will then supplement this with the terrestial Irish channels.

Ideally, I'll use the current test transmissions of DVB-T for RTE & TV3 (which I believe are in MPEG-4). I have a Hauppauge Win TV HVR-900 USB TV Tuner and it works fine with these channels, with some interference, but I plan on putting up an external DVB-T antenna with the satellite dish - would that solve that problem?

So basically, I need to figure out what my external TV tuner options are, with a view to future-proofing for HD if possible. Would this Acer Revo 3600 be up to running two separate USB DVB-S2 TV tuners? Would it also accommodate the USB DVB-T tuner? That would give me plenty of options, but at minimum a USB DVB-S2 tuner in conjunction with the USB DVB-T tuner would suffice.

Are there any dual tuner USB DVB-S2 tuners out there that would do a good job and if not, what single tuner USB DVB-S2 tuner would you recommend for Windows 7 Media Center? Thanks!

kaisersose77

dont think there are any dual dvb-s2 usb tuners

http://www.dvbshop.net/product_info.php?refID=idealo&info=p2301_TeVii-S660-DVB-S2-USB-2-0-HDTV-H-264-USALS.html

http://www.dvbshop.net/product_info.php/info/p58_Technotrend-S2-3600-HDTV-S2-USB-2-0---TT-Viewer.html

Probably best to google them and see if others are using them with mce.

Have two of the tevii ones myself with an acer revo dual core but going down the linux route with xbox media center.

Dont know if a single core acer revo is going to haven problems with multiple streams or not.

I'm sure if you google acer revo tv tuners you'll find out more.

Capt. Insano

Any updates on this?

I'm thinking of ordering a Revo 3610 with the dual core Atom 330, I want to finally retire my 750GB Xbox running XBMC for something with HD support!

I was thinking of running a Myth-TV Backend/Frontend and also XBMC to take over my movie needs. As I am a complete noob to Myth-TV (but not linux) I was wondering if this plan is too ambitious with the Atom 330 processor and 2 Gigs RAM??

Would it work and what Tuner would people recommend?