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    best tv/radio tuners

    hi! i'm goin crazy cause my pci tv/radio card has a very poor signal.
    I want to change it but i don't know what to buy.

    I also don't know how to connect tv and radio antennas: when i connect both radio and tv, signal is very very poor. however if i only connect tv antenna, i can see tv a little better.. the same is for radio antenna..
    i got a zoltrix pci tv/radio tuner (card is very similar to wintv pci)

    please help me!

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    I use a matrox marvel combined card, it drives my TS, has a video out for my 3 rear screens (indepent of vga, so I have mapmonkey and passengers have music vids or tv) and a tuner/composite in.

    Its about as sensitive as a pocket TV, so I run it from a booster.
    And its not very good, if at all, above 20mph......
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    Domenicus:

    From what I have heard, tv tuners in general usually are very bad with reception in a moving vehicle. Hell, even owning one of those small portable tv's shows that they are crappy in general.

    As for radio tuners some people have said they are as good as a headunit, however, most say that in general they are not near as good as a normal headunit. I can't vouch either way as i have not tested either.

    In general though, I think most will agree that a tv tuner in general is useless in a car. Reception etc, with the fact that there is no good channels.
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    Ok man, thank you very much for your replies.
    But...what about DVB-T ?

    And what about XM - Sirius Radio ? Can i use it ? I'm in italy..

    What will i need ?

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    Quote Originally Posted by domenicus
    And what about XM - Sirius Radio ? Can i use it ? I'm in Italy..
    http://www.worldspace.com/

    XM / Sirius will not work.
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