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BGT3600 PCIe Quad Digital SD/HD TV Tuner (DVB-T/T2/S/S2/C)
Discontinued
BGT3650 PCIe Quad Digital SD/HD TV Tuner (DVB-T/T2/C)
Discontinued
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Black Gold PCIe Quad Digital TV Tuner Cards Ultra

The Black Gold BGT3600/3650 are the world’s premium PCI Express TV tuners, capable of receiving standard and HD digital terrestrial, satellite (3600 model only) and cable broadcasts.

At last! Black Gold have finally released what all Media Center fans have been longing for - a couple of quad channel TV tuner cards which support a mixture of terrestrial and satellite HD broadcasts, as well as digital cable TV and analogue baseband video signals. Despite their capabilities, the cards are physically quite small and can be fitted with either low-profile or standard-height PCI backplates (both are supplied), so it will fit into a low-profile or full size case. And if the ability to record up to four TV channels simultaneously isn’t enough, you can even install more than one card - this scenario is fully supported by the WHQL 32-bit and 64-bit Windows drivers.

The difference between the two cards is simply that the BGT3600 has two terrestrial tuners and two satellite tuners, whereas the BGT3650 has four terrestrial tuners and no satellite ones.

Please note that if you plan to use the BGT3600 to receive DVB-S/S2 satellite signals, you will need to connect a 6-pin PCI Express power cable to the card in order to provide power to the satellite dish LNB(s). Most PC power supplies have this power cable built-in, as it is usually intended to be used for the purpose of providing extra power to 3D gaming graphics cards.

Features

  1. The perfect PCIe TV card for Windows 7 Media Center, Mythbuntu etc.
  2. Up to four tuners can operate simultaneously (five including analogue)
  3. Includes both standard height and low-profile PCI backplates
  4. Supports terrestrial, satellite, cable and analogue broadcasts *
  5. Compatible with DVB-T/T2, DVB-S/S2, DVB-C including Freeview HD/Freesat HD *
  6. Supports terrestrial, cable and analogue broadcasts †
  7. Compatible with DVB-T/T2, DVB-C including Freeview HD †
  • *BGT3600 only
  • BGT3650 only
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SpecificationsBGT3600BGT3650
Product codeBGT3600 BGT3650
UK Freeview and Freeview HD compatibilityYes Yes
UK Freesat and Freesat HD compatibilityYes No
Analogue terrestrial compatibilityPAL, NTSC and SECAM PAL, NTSC and SECAM
Digital terrestrial compatibilityDVB-T and DVB-T2 DVB-T and DVB-T2
Digital satellite compatibilityDVB-S and DVB-S2 *N/A
Digital cable compatibilityDVB-C DVB-C
Maximum no. simultaneous digital tuners4 4
External AV in socketComposite Video (CVBS), S-Video (S-VHS), Component (YPbPr and RGB), Stereo Audio Composite Video (CVBS), S-Video (S-VHS), Component (YPbPr and RGB), Stereo Audio
Card heightSupplied with half and full height backplate brackets to accommodate all PC case sizes Supplied with half and full height backplate brackets to accommodate all PC case sizes
Card PCB size including PCIe fingers131mm x 69mm 109mm x 69mm
Windows 7 drivers available32 and 64 bit Broadcast Driver Architecture (BDA) WHQL (supports multiple BGT36xx cards) 32 and 64 bit Broadcast Driver Architecture (BDA) WHQL (supports multiple BGT36xx cards)
Warranty24 months 24 months
  • *DVB-S/S2 requires a 6 pin PCI-Express power cable to be connected to the card
SpecificationsBGT3600BGT3650
Product codeBGT3600 BGT3650
UK Freeview and Freeview HD compatibilityYes
UK Freesat and Freesat HD compatibilityYes No
Analogue terrestrial compatibilityPAL, NTSC and SECAM
Digital terrestrial compatibilityDVB-T and DVB-T2
Digital satellite compatibilityDVB-S and DVB-S2 *N/A
Digital cable compatibilityDVB-C
Maximum no. simultaneous digital tuners4
External AV in socketComposite Video (CVBS), S-Video (S-VHS), Component (YPbPr and RGB), Stereo Audio
Card heightSupplied with half and full height backplate brackets to accommodate all PC case sizes
Card PCB size including PCIe fingers131mm x 69mm 109mm x 69mm
Windows 7 drivers available32 and 64 bit Broadcast Driver Architecture (BDA) WHQL (supports multiple BGT36xx cards)
Warranty24 months
  • *DVB-S/S2 requires a 6 pin PCI-Express power cable to be connected to the card

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I was well impressed!! Now not quite so!

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Purchased this item after looking to upgrade my existing temperamental HTPC in which I had a Hauppauge TV card which was pants. This new card, installed just over a week ago, installed without issue. It was immediately identified by Windows 7 (64 bit) Media Centre and all programs were tuned. To date I have had no problems with wake up, missed programmes, quirky ‘missing tuners’ or any of the other issues I had with the previous build. It’s not a cheap card, but, so far, it seems to do what it said on the tin! I’d certainly recommend it.

I wrote the above not long after buying the item and I was at the time very happy. Since then I discovered that only 3 tuners were working and it seems others have had all manner of problems. I’m still happy with the card as far as processing TV is concerned but I’m not so impressed with only 3 out of 4 tuners working or the very poor support from BG. Quiet PC have been very supportive and offered a full refund but I’m struggling to locate another card with 4 tuners in a low profile format…

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