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Help me Choose a TV Tuner Card

T

Twilling

Senior member
I am having a problem trying to decide which TV Tuner card to go with. I havn't found many reviews on the web, if you know of such please point me to the websites. Around AnandTech, Leadtek's Winfast TV2000XP seems to be the favorite but I don't like the bulky-looking cheesy remote. I have seen a MSI TV @nywhere TV Tuner with a nice remote. Feature wise, I want a very high video quality, low CPU usage, and oodles of nice software. Please help me decide.
 
Stay away from the ATI TV Wonder. I hate mine 🙂 Other then not being an expert on TV cards, i'd say the Leadtek is a favorite.

Bill
 
The cards from hauppauge are darn good cards. The ATI tv cards should be avoided like the plauge. I bought one of the WinTV PVR 250 cards made by hauppauge. The quality is excellent, the drivers work great, it came with some reasonable starter software, and it can encode video to mpeg2 format on the fly at 12 mbit VBR. Not only that it records it while I work on other tasks as it keeps CPU usage low with the encoder chip. For a price tag of 150, I felt it worth every penny. I actually bought an ATI TV wonder, found out it didn't even work with XP...okay it did kinda if I switched display settings while having it open. It had awful quality too, I took it back for a refund and bought the WinTV card.
 
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