PME stands for power management event and will only work if it is featured and enabled in your BIOS. You can connect it to the motherboard where the power switch usually goes and then connect the power switch from your case to the card, or, you can enable 'PME'. The card also has the capability to boot up your PC in order to start a scheduled recording. When the scheduler kicks in, it stays in the background, so as not to interfere with your current work. The scheduler runs in the background and can start your scheduled recordings even if FusionHDTV is closed. One thing to note with the recording scheduler is that it will not work properly if your Windows regional settings are not set to 'English (Australia)' as the date format will produce an error. If your favourite programs ever clash, you will be easily able to set the recording scheduler to record them both. We were able to record programs from two different channels at the same time. Where the second tuner worked like a charm was when we used the recording scheduler. Instead we had to use the main program interface to change channels and to toggle between the windows. We noticed that we could not change channels by right-clicking, nor could we toggle between the main screen and the PIP window. Even then, actually watching a program using the second tuner in a PIP box is not enjoyable, nor intuitive, as the functions in the right-click menu of the PIP box are barely functional. If you are recording one program you can't change channels on the other, nor can you toggle from the main window to the PIP window.That means if you want to watch one program and record another, you must have the program you want to watch on the correct channel in the main window, and the program you want to record in the PIP window.įurthermore, you can only use the second tuner if the picture-in-picture (PIP) function is enabled. DViCO's FusionHDTV software (we used the latest version at the time of writing - 3.50.02) can not use both tuners transparently. While the hardware is neat, the software solution is not ideal. Likewise, only one set of drivers is required to install it, unlike DViCO's previous dual tuner solution, which required a second driver and also that the second tuner on the card be connected to the PC via a USB cable. This means there are aren't any messy pass-through cables or splitters required to use both tuners. It's a PCI card and it only requires one antenna input for both of its tuners. This digital TV tuner from DViCO contains dual tuner capabilities and is a very neat piece of hardware.
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