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Dual everything!
Two analog tuners with dual hardware MPEG-2 encoders.
Two digital TV receivers for ATSC and clear QAM

However, this is misleading. There are only two hybrid tuner chips on this board. Each can tune analog or digital, but only one at a time. When you actually read ths 2250's manual, it explicitly states:

"The WinTV-HVR-2250 has two tuners and can be used to watch one analog or ATSC digital channel in Media Center while recording another channel of the same type."

So, what I infer from the manual is that you can ONLY watch (a) two digital channels at once, or (b) two analog channels at once. You cannot watch one analog and one digital, and certainly you do not have "four" tuners, despite having "dual everything!"

Am I wrong?
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