Prof Tuners PCI/e cards

[aceb]

I need to put together a new HTPC and want to upgrade my old Skystar2 card. My main interest is feed watching rather than hunting as I'm happy to leech new finds from the feed hunter boards or scan existing transponders so blind scanning isn't top priority at the moment. I've been drawn to the Prof Tuners cards but re-checking my bookmarks in the last few weeks I see there's been some 'politics' within the company forcing a split of the original partners.

Prof-Tuners now seem to use the name Advance Tune and show the Revolution 7301 PCI DVB-S2 as an archived product so presumably it's no longer produced or sold by them? Proftuners show the same card as a current product.

Exactly the same situation exists with both companies for the Revolution 8000 PCIe DVB-S2. Prof-tuners and Proftuners

Prof-tuners now show some new models, AdvanceTune 8700 PCIe and AdvanceTune 9700 PCIe although thie latter might not be on sale yet. Is the 8700 just a renumbered 8000? Likewise, I'm wondering if the 9700 is a renumbered version of the 9000 that is listed on the proftuners site even though the links there fail to show anything? (Maybe a product the original company was working on before the split?)

Having got my head round that lot I'm trying to work out which one to get as my new mobo has both PCI and PCIe slots so I'm not restricted in that respect.

Comparing the published specs and features of the 7301 to the 8000 there seems to be nothing different apart from the connectors being PCI or PCIe or have I missed something?

Are they the same to use with similar performance or does one work better than the other?

So assuming the 9000/9700 isn't out yet as I can find very little information on it anywhere on the net which is the one to go for, 7301, 8000 or 8700?

Proftuners 7301 PCI _http://www.proftuners.com/prof7301.html
Proftuners 8000 PCIe _http://www.proftuners.com/prof8000.html
Prof-tuners 8700 PCIe _http://www.prof-tuners.com/eng/at8700.html

Now I see it's against the rules to post live links to the manufacturers website maybe someone should edit that section of the FAQ explaining the code is only allowed to be used for this site?

 

[Lin Chen]

Hello. Reliable information about the products on the new site Prof _http://www.proftuners.com/]Prof Tuners Group DVB-S DVB-S2: Prof Revolution 7301, Prof Revolution 7500, Prof Revolution 8000, Prof Red Series 6200, Prof Red Series 7300 | proftuners.com , control over the old domain is lost.

 

[aceb]

Reliable? In 'where to buy' the first Polish link is to _http://www.prof-tuners.pl/ Isn't this the domain that has been lost? What exactly is the story here, has the original company split into two with each one continuing to sell the same products as both websites are very similar in appearance and seem to be selling the same products. As I'm UK based where can I buy these cards in the Eu? I really want to try your product but TBH there isn't much on offer that gives me any confidence in your company!