My "rescue". Everything perfect again, as usual.

My Windows PC 8/64 I have a new Haswell-Z87 Expert Board granted, with a i7-4770K.
Unfortunately PCI slots are now extinct, and so I could not use my previous and perfectly functioning Terratec S2 PCI HD card.
An experiment with a PCI to PCIe Adapter failed, a new PCIe card from another provider actually worked perfectly, but ...
And this "but" is precisely the point:

The Terratec Home Cinema software is unbeatable.

So I am come to this more expensive ELGATO USB solution because the Terratec Home Cinema software (... just always been Elgato) is. No other software solution was able to inspire so far, because I want a small video window without frame, without operation parts. This can this software simply the best.
Other solutions will provide a media center always the same and on the other hand, I'm allergic. I want to fly, for example, with the flight simulator while watching TV ...

Since ELGATO has now specialized in expensive Apple products this USB solution was certainly more expensive than they should have been. But well, it is indeed run for a few years.

I did not have USB2 slot more freely and can say that this USB solution also works on a USB3 port.

I have again my usual TV software (THC 6:28:10, albeit with black instead of white skin) and have "saved".

Oh yes: The part is relatively heavy. In order not to count even. Is now behind the Compujter on the ground ...
The power supply has interchangeable plugs for UK and EURO. USB cable is of course included as well as the inevitable ... The remote control comes with the other 3 that lie somewhere in a box for years, because why do I need when I'm sitting at the PC, a remote control ...

The Reception? No problems. All HD channels as usual, no differences from the PCI card detected.

Hopefully comes ELGATO (Spanish for "The Cat") is not the idea entirely to cling to Apple devices and abandon the Windows rail. For this, the software is just too good.

Addendum 18/02/2014: On USB3.0 port there were ongoing problems. I need to change my statement disbezüglich.
Caution if you have an ATI graphics card and the Catalyst Control Center, for example, the 3D Einstellugn the Games, isnbesondere antialiasing, adjusting for a game. Thus, the THC software can not cope and the Enhanced Video Renderer is no longer functioning properly. Who has not not adjusted in the CCC this problem.