TBS6922 PCI-E DVB-S2 TV Tuner Card Review

TBS8922 is a TBS latest version of PCI DVB-S2 TV tuner card, which supports to receive and watch HD digital satellite programs (also compatible with Freesat) on the desktop. TBS8922 also fully supports satellite internet connecting and high-speed satellite data downloading. It works great with popular DVB software e.g ProgDVB, DVBDream, and Skygrabber. It is also a kind of Linux supported DVB S2 computer PCI card. Here are TBS 8922 reviews come from http://www.amazon.co.uk/

Supports windows 7 64 bit –Written By Jeffers
Download the latest drivers for windows 7 before installing this PCI card, media centre detects and scans automatically. Great for Freesat, I have two cards installed, picks up BBC HD - but really only rubbish on there at the moment! Download 'Guidetool' for easy media centre guide editing of the 1000+ channels available. Best choice for Freesat viewing card.



An excellent dvb s2 pcie card- Written By NuancedInsight
Previously had a Twinhan card and although when working it would go blocky and pixellate for no reason most of the times I used it. So in effect the Twinhan was completely useless. The TBS product is much better - reasonably easy to install and it works well with WMC. Managed to identify about 870 channels from the Sky 28.2 / Eurobird 28.5 satellites. Some not watchable as they are scrambled or too weak but a good selection nevertheless. Could tuner into BBC HD and Luxe HD and they displayed on WMC fine. Managed to hack the registry to get ITV HD as per the other reviewer's instructions, but on this channel the sound only lasted 1 second before cutting out. Googling reveals others have had similar problems but no solution as are as I could see. Anyway the TBS DVB PCI card is an excellent value product and I highly recommend it. And it has lasted nearly a month now and is still working, so appears stable and would definitely recommend this dvb tv card.

Fantastic HD satellite card. Great price!-D. King "Stinga"
I ditched the sky box and plugged the satellite dish into this bad boy. I ended up with around 1000 channels with no realigning of the dish required. I'm using this card with windows 7 and it integrates with windows media center brilliantly. I have all of the freesat channels including BBC HD and with a bit of tweaking I even managed to get ITV HD!!
All you need to do is install the card and download the latest windows 7 drivers from the TBS website. When you launch windows media center, it detects the satellite card and scans for channels. You will get duplicated channels i.e. all of the regional channels for ITV and BBC, but it's easy to delete and rename channels in the channel guide.
Google "my channel logos" to download a nice little plug in which inserts the channel logos into the channel guide.
ITV HD is usually a "red button" option and is not actually a channel. To view it as a channel you need to edit the registry.
Go to C:\Windows\regedit
Then locate and open fAllowDvbsMHEG and change the value from 0 to 1. It's located in the path below.
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Media Center\Settings\TVConfig
Now go back to your channel guide, locate a channel called 10510 and rename it ITV HD. If you get a blank screen when you select the channel, launch BBC HD first then go back to ITV HD and it should open as normal.
Only cost me £50, so pleasure price! Happy freesat viewing card!

Review for TBS 6984 Quad TV Tuner Card

Do you want to watch four different channels of satellite TV on your pc simultaneously? It seems to be an unreal and unbelievable experience. However, new release of TBS 6984 quad tuner will make all of them become true. TBS 6984 PCI-E DVB-S2 Quad Tuner TV Card is the world's first professional multi-tuner sat PC card for watching digital satellite TV on the PC, including supports four DVB S2 transponders or download data from four DVB s2 8PSK/QPSK Demodulators synchronously. It enables Media Center PCs to play or record up to four live channels of HDTV at once, and stream live HD channels or recordings to multiple HDTVs throughout the dish network, all from a multi-tuner card. With the TBS 6984 Quad Tuner Card, your Media Center PC becomes a complete entertainment platform for all your media, including watching HD streaming game sports and over thousands of new movies, video and music.

What do the customers review TBS 6984 quad tuner card?

It just works great with my window7 media center

By Richard, W

I’ve had this quad tuner about 3 days from TBS’s official store. And I can say, it just works – and it works well with my window 7 media center. – It’s really what TBS can do this. With the PCI express slot available, it is very easy to setup the card on pc. Running Win7 media center on an I7 homebuilt HTPC, the card doesn’t seem particularly problematic with incoming signals. Before this, I have downloaded the driver for windows from attaching CD. As TBS refers, this quad card is also compatible with the Linux system. But I haven’t tried. I was deeply impressed by the scan speed of the TBS 69841, which only took three and a half minutes to scan the satellite I want. Every search can be restricted to free-to-air channels only, which is particularly helpful as the PC card does not come with a CI slot for pay TV reception. The most important is we’ve had all 4 channels when the busy several times !We now watch basically all the satellite TV on PC, and between recording shows, – Support has been good from TBS and all it all, while pricey, this card is WELL WORTH IT, if you want HD in your PC– Long awaited, and an excellent product!!

Unreal experience… if you own an HTPC, you need this card

By Ivan

I built an HTPC four years ago. At the time, the only option to get HDTV in Windows Media Center was use a TV tuner card. Most of them are single tuner. There is a rare of quad tuner tv card. I was one of the first people to receive this quad card. I must say, this is the best tv tuner card I have ever used, Without question, this card is unbelievable! It is SIMPLE to install the card. Further, assuming you have a satellte technician who has any experience, it is easy to set up in Windows Media Center. I am so pleased that this quad tuner records 4 shows at one time without any problems.

The price is Ok for me .just look at it as an investment. It’s an investment in sanity as there are no more battles over what gets recorded. It’s an investment in technology because my system can do things that a single or dual tuner tv cards could never accomplish.

Awesome and perfect！Absolutely Five stars.

TBS6984 Quad-tuner Card now on sale in buydvb for $249.99

TBS 6984, a PCI Express card with four tuners, which allows to record simultaneously four high definition TV programs on your personal computer from a single tv card. It supports 4xAdvanced DVB-S2/DVB-S 8PSK QPSK Demodulator and High-speed Data Download via Satellite. It enables Media Center PCs to play or record up to four live channels of HDTV at once, and stream live HD channels or recordings to multiple HDTVs throughout the dish network, all from a multi tuner card. With the TBS 6984 Quad Tuner Card, your Windows 7 Media Center PC becomes a complete entertainment platform for all your media, including watching HD streaming game sports and over thousands of new movies, video and music. It also supports the mainstream DVB applications such as DVBDream, DVBViewer, DVBlogic, ProgDVB, Skynet, Tsreader etc

After its release, TBS 6984 is gaining a wide popularity among the young people, especially for satellite tv card fanciers. Watch live satellite tv or record any HDTV programs through this amazing satellite pc card. You can get and record over thousands of funny tv shows on your pc.

The MSRP is still $249.99. just like everywhere else but as usual Prime customers can score cheap/free shipping. Buy it from their official online store-buydvb.net here.

Technical Details:

    * Quad Channels DVB-S2/S HD/SD TV Receiving Synchronously

    * Broadband via Internet

    * High-speed Data Download via Satellite

    * Linux S2API Drivers Compatible with MythTV, VDR, XBMC, DVBLast, VLC, etc.

    * Supported by DVBDream, DVBViewer, DVBlogic, ProgDVB, Skynet, Tsreader etc

Specifications:

    * Receiving Frequency: 925~2175 MHz Tuning Range

    * Input Level: -69~23dBm

    * 4x Advanced DVB-S2 8PSK QPSK Receiver

 * Symbol Rates:

      DVB-S QPSK: 1-45 Msps

      DVB-S2 8PSK/QPSK: 2-36 Msps

  * Code Rates:

      DVB-S: 1/2, 2/3, 3/4, 5/6, 7/8

      DVB-S2 QPSK: 1/2, 3/5, 2/3, 3/4. 4/5. 5/6, 8/9, 9/10

      DVB-S2 8PSK: 3/5, 2/3. 3/4. 5/6. 8/9, 9/10

  * Automatic Acquisition Range: ±10MHz

    * DiSEqC 2.x Compliant

    * PCI Express Interface

When it comes to watching satellite television via TBS 6984 quad tuner card, everything just works. I’ve been keeping concerned on this quad card for a long time and become one of the first people to get this amazing card. I have downloaded over thousands of TV shows and prepared to watch during my summer vacation. When it comes to whether or not I would recommend the card, the answer is absolutely: yes! If you can afford the $249.55 price tag then you absolutely owe it to yourself and put this card into your HTPC. It can drastically simplify your setup, which in my case also brought with it increased stability. To put it simply, the TBS 6984 is Media Center paradise!