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  • January 1, 2011 at 7:09 pm #25841
    SSMI

      Is there a tv tuner that will let you either watch or record two digital and/or analog signals? In other words with the ability to tune digital/digital, analog/analog or digital/analog?

      January 1, 2011 at 7:40 pm #29273
      Mike Garcen

        The older ATI Digital Cable Tuner devices, which supported single stream CableCARD actually contained both an analog and digital tuners inside them. I believe the new CETON tuners are strictly digital, as is the HDHomeRun.

        That was the very unique part about the ATI, however as they’re no longer made you’ll have to rely on ebay to get one, usually along the $100-150 range, and they make an internal and external version.

        January 1, 2011 at 8:50 pm #29274
        captain_video

          Are you talking about digital cable or digital OTA as in ATSC?  There are several ATSC/NTSC dual tuner devices available.  Here’s a list of what’s out there:

          http://www.hdtvtunerinfo.com/index.html

          If you’re referring to digital cable, then Mike already discussed the available options.

          January 1, 2011 at 9:42 pm #29275
          SSMI

            Sorry I wasn’t very clear.  I am in a place where I have analog cable coming in.  I want to find a tv tuner that could read that and also ota digital signal to get high def.  So what I am looking fo I think is a tuner card with two cable jacks that will be able to do either two of one signal or the other or one of each signal.  I want to be albe to get the analog because we get a few more channels, like discovery, on it than that are ota.  Is there a card out there that does that?  Or can I run them both into a single cable?  I think there will be confict with that.

            January 1, 2011 at 11:57 pm #29276
            Mike Garcen

              Here’s a guide, while outdated it’ll show you what you’re looking for: http://www.missingremote.com/guide/atscntsc-tuner-guide

              There are plenty of cards out there for what you’re looking for (A Combo Card), which you can honestly get for pretty cheap from Ebay, depending how much you want to spend. Unfortunately i don’t have any experience with any of them.

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