Exclusive Hands On Review of the Black Gold BGT3620 Dual DVB-T/T2 Tuner Card

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7. Have just ordered a Tranquil iXL with the T2 tuner, so looking forward to getting into it. Hope the guide problem gets fixed quickly.

8. thanks Richard

   Let us know what you think of it 🙂

   And you have the workaround in the meantime

   Andrew

9. Mine arrived this morning 🙂

   No driver disk though 🙁

   Anyone got one or can point me in the direction of it?

   Not on the Blackgold download site

   Cheers

   Jerry

   • Did those drivers work Jerry?

10. Current drivers are avaialble here – http://home.btconnect.com/blackgold/Downloads/BGT….

    My card should be delivered today and will be used exclusively over DVBlogic, so will advise on that once tested.

    • thanks Gary – let us know what you think.

11. I got my card and have it working on Win7 x64 Media Center. Thanks for the info on getting the guide to work on most of the HD channels. My only problem is that I dont get Dolby Digital audio with the HD channels. I have an optical SPDIF connection and my receiver shows DD/DTS for blurays/DVDs/mkvs but not for the HD TV channels. Does anyone know how I would get this working?

    Cheers

    • I've sent the question over to the guys on the Digital Lifestyle Show and we will try and get an answer for you.

      • Thanks for bringing it up on the show. I was under the impression that HD also provided DD stream but this is maybe only on sky. I have a freeview HD set-top box which I tested and it only provides a stereo boradcast too so no problem with the BG card!

        Now I need to get the channel listings for BBC HD working. I read somewhere that its possible to use xmltv to get them but my previous experiences with xmltv have not been very productive!

        Cheers
        Allan

        • Thanks AllanHave you checked out: http://thedigitallifestyle.com/cs/tdl/b/ian/archi…

12. Thanks Andrew, hopefully they will have a solution :o)

    • We are working on it 🙂

13. Got mine today, said was gonna setup as analog and dvbt tuners

    Recieved 75 channels.

    However didnt find hd ones sadly,

    checked postcode said hd in my area is available since 2009.

    So not too happy at the moment

    • Have you used the correct drivers? Not sure why you are not picking up the HD channels if you have HD in your area?

14. Scanned just using dvbt, finds 102 channels now, but no HD, maybe the multiplex is weak on hd ones?

    Some channels just give a blank screen, but this is likely a weak signal?

    Didnt wanna have to wait for the digitv hd product when its comes available, but maybe it will work better with a weaker signal.

    Im using direct feed from ariel, but limited channels so far…..

    using the 8.00 drivers from website, product had no driver disk with it, but downloaded from your site.

    will keep trying, getting fed up with scanning channels now though.

15. in media center w7 64, it mentions only dvbt not dvbt2, i assume this is fine, as driver should use dvbt2 also.

    gets to about 50% first tuner finds some channels at this point, then goes to tune rest red led comes on the other tuner then, finds about 102 channels but no hd ones

    Is it only scanning dvb and not dvbt2?

    dunno, just assumed i could pay my money plug it in and it works.

    seems hd isnt as simple as i would of thought, not sure how the standard joe will cope with all this switchover and dvbt and dvbt2 and etc etc etc etc,

    • Pete

      Im not sure why you are having so many issues – perhaps as you say it is down to weak aerial signal?

      As I said in my review above, I just plugged the card in, installed the drivers, did a scan and that was it – it worked perfectly for me.

      I would contact Black Gold if I were you just in case you have an issue they are aware of.

      Andrew

16. Thanks Andrew, generally im quite lucky,

    Hardware wise, build is excellent, cant believe how small it is.

    I think it must be working, prob maybe hd isnt available and the freeview site is reporting incorrect?

    However if the signal is weak i guess the hd channels are likely to be missing?

    I wouldnt of minded if they showed up in list and were say a bit breakyey up or corrupt, as then i could sort things from there.

    i used media center to see signal strength and most report 71% or 100%, but im guessing this is no indication of if you can recieve or not?

    will keep trying, at some point i will buy a hd freeview for the tv and if this works, then i should have more of an idea.

    oh well, cant do much else for the moment, was getting excited to see how good the hd channels were aswell.

    • thanks Pete

      I will see what else I can find out as well – maybe there are some updated drivers available now as well?

      Andrew

17. I think freeview testing today, as managed to scan and recieved hd channels,

    So happy with the card now, got a nice 1 hour or so of testing, a bit weak now though,

    Thanks for any help.

    • thats great news Pete – glad to help 🙂

18. Has anyone managed to get this card working in WHS 2011 – perhaps using DVB logic as well.

    I’d _love_ to hear if anyone has.

    John

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