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TBS6903 Review, the best DVB-S2 Tuner for truly passionate consumers

TBS6903 Professional DVB-S2 Dual Tuner PCIe Card is the new tuner from TBS, which is basically the same board as the TBS6983 but with the new FPGA-based PCI-E 2.0 bridge. The purpose of the FPGA is to ensure backward compatibility with the existing motherboards and also with the latest chipsets. Due to the fact that TBS 6903 DVB-S2 tuner is on the professional side, the package does not contain a remote control or IR sensor; instead the package contains a CD equipped with software/drivers, a power adapter with a HH motor and a low profile bracket (to facilitate the usage against a SFF HTPC/IP streaming server/system). A couple of features will make this DVB-S2 PCIe card stand-up: EUMETCast Compatibility, VCM, ACM,16APSK,32APSK, Multi Input Stream, Generic stream mode and Blind scan support. Another advantage is that the card can lock on transponders with symbol rate as low as 200 ksps. From a passionate user’s perspective the features enumerated above are the one that really c