TV Tuner Advice

The S350 is for FreeSat Satellite TV, has a single tuner and does not support the HD broadcasts. I have in my media center, works ok. No issues apart from above.

The K300 us a mpeg encoder, you connect the output of a set top box or similar and it encodes to mpeg for storage. Haven't used one, but it's not a TV tuner.

Are you actually looking for a DVB tuner for terrestrial broadcasts?

This is cheapest, not tried one personally though
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That second point may be Ok for me, would that allow me to add my set top box to it because I don't mind doing that. Ideally . Was looking for a TV free view tuner so Just stick my aerial in and tune to get channels like BBC 3 etc. That's what I have at the moment... Or rather did have lol
 
The USB ones aren't bad to be fair if you are using the homes aerial, I've used a few different ones.

As you own a TV card an extra USB one might be handy. If you have a laptop it can use the USB tuner if it suits and should there come a time when you can reuse the PCI-E tuner you can use the USB one as a secondary to watch & record at the same time :)
 
I have a Hauppage PCI Digital tuner in my HTPC had it for quite some time now. PCI slots are starting to drop off mobos so I wouldn't want to be buying a PCI card now.
 
No worries.

As far as remotes go....you can get free apps for smartphones that act as a simple keyboard and mouse. I find this to be more useful than a MCE remote but to each their own :)
 
Got the Compro VideoMate S350 and tried to connect it to a spare sky dish and was able to received the available free to view channels on the sky dish.
 
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