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Well here I am with a Pinnacle installed having just watched quesion time.

I am a Vista 64 user, DVB-S only user.

Chucked the card in and Vista silently installed the driver, great.

Using Media Portal TV Server, I scanned for channels and immediatley got a blue screen.

I understand there is a generic issue with 4gb and PCI express cards, so I whipped out a gig and restarted Windows. Windows no longer recognised my card. I shut down, took the card out and restarted. I then shut down again, plugged the card back in and restarted, Vista silently installed the drivers again and the card appeared in device manager. I used TV Server config again and scanned for channels - all fine.

Opened Media Portal and watched a few random chennels. Picture quality is not as good as Black Gold card, very watchable, just nowhere near as sharp.

Just finished watching Question Time and flicked to BBC HD - no probs whatsoever producing picture, and quick. Will play around with settings to ensure coreavc is default decoder, but again picture aint as sharp as Black Gold card.

Will set some recordings and report back, but so far more straight forward than Black gold to get some channels, just let down a little by pic quality...