I want to be able to watch TV on my computer

[Bateluer]

I was looking at the MSI TV Anywhere cards. Link
That second one.

I noticed its got Audio jacks on that. Does that mean that I have to plug my headphones into it to get sound?

 

[Viper96720]

Plug the audio out of the card to the audio in of your sound card

 

[Bonesdad]

A better bet would be the ASUS TV880 or the Leadteck TV Capture cards. That way you can not only watch tv, but record using POWERVCR or some other prog.

 

[Bateluer]

Originally posted by: Bonesdad
A better bet would be the ASUS TV880 or the Leadteck TV Capture cards. That way you can not only watch tv, but record using POWERVCR or some other prog.

Are those PCI cards that will allow me to use my Radeon 9600 as the primary video card?

 

[Bateluer]

http://usa.asus.com/products/vga/tvtuner/overview.htm

or

http://www.leadtek.com/multimedia/winfast_tv2000xp_deluxe_1.html

 

[beatle]

Originally posted by: Bateluer

Originally posted by: Bonesdad
A better bet would be the ASUS TV880 or the Leadteck TV Capture cards. That way you can not only watch tv, but record using POWERVCR or some other prog.

Are those PCI cards that will allow me to use my Radeon 9600 as the primary video card?

Yes. I have the Asus and it rocks.

 

[Bateluer]

Are you able to watch and record TV with good image quality at 640x480?

 

[Bateluer]

Bump. Still looking for some good advice.

 

[Peter]

Use a PCI TV card. These feed the video image into the overlay buffer of the main graphics card; the audio will have to be looped into a Line-In port on the computer's sound unit.

Recording performance largely depends on how fast your hard drive is.

 

[Bateluer]

Its a 7200RPM WD SE 120GB hdd. An 80GB WD 7200 RPM drive resides on the secondary IDE channel. The system itself is pretty damn fast, P4C 2.4 with 1GB of PC3200.

Where can I find a vendor that sells the Asus TV Tuner card?

 

[Slick5150]

Newegg used to carry the Asus, though I don't see it there now on a quick glance. Not sure where else to find it.

 

[Bateluer]

I think I may get the MSI card. It does list on its features at MSI that it can record as well as view.