ATI TV Wonder Elite

[mooncancook]

I needed a TV card so that i can record shows and sports games and transfer to my PSP. I bought the TV Wonder Elite because AT gave it a favorable review, but i'm disappointed with the product. First, it's slow. Initializing the TV takes a while, and changing channels takes a whole second, which is much slower than the TV tuner i used to have on a 9800AIW. Second, it's BUGGY! After installing the software (PowerCinema), ATI multimedia center stop working. Installed remote wonder, some buttons just refused to work, including the channel changing buttons. For $150 i expect more for the money. I'm taking this back for an exchange. I am considering a Plextor USB tuner with hardware mpeg4/divX capability for $50 more... any comments or suggestions?

 

[Bateluer]

Do a search in GH, a lot of people need TV Tuner advice. I believe a lot of people are targeting the Hauppage PVR-150.

 

[Matthias99]

Originally posted by: Bateluer
Do a search in GH, a lot of people need TV Tuner advice. I believe a lot of people are targeting the Hauppage PVR-150.

It's a nice card if you're looking for hardware MPEG2 encoding. Cheap, too, especially the PVR150-MCE version (which doesn't include a remote or any software, just to warn you).

 

[Peter]

That's something all the "MCE" tuner cards have in common. Software is brought by the OS, and the remote is supposed to be a systemwide unit following the MCE specification.

 

[mooncancook]

thanks for the inputs. I did some search in tv-card.com forums and it seems a lot of ppl are recommending the PVR-150. but i ended up with a Pelxtor ConnectX-PVR USB for its hardware divX/mpeg4 capability. pretty costly for $200, gonna try it out tonite, hope it's worth it.