Well, I've never used anything where you can input the VCR Plus codes and it work,
buuuut,
I have used the ATI TV Card (Separate Card) and the ATI AIW Radeon (TV TUNER Built in) and both programs have a scheduler which allows you to record. You set up your channel listings by your area & the bundled program downloads a TV Guide which you can then use to schedule a recording (single, repeat, etc) by browsing through the channel listings. It aslo had the capability to record at a fixed time/fixed channel (in case your channels didn't automatically line up)