Need desperate and immediate help on info/advice on a TV turner card.

[darkmader]

We're either going with Comcast/DirectTV tomorrow with a HD receiver. We currently don't have a HD television but plan on getting one soon. I spent too much time on newegg reading reviews on TV turners that I'm even more lost then ever.

I have a 24 inch Asus monitor and looking to hook up either the Comcast or Direct HD box to a tv turner, I know I can get the OTA channels (your main local channels I guess) but can I hook the box up to the turner and get HD receptions on the 80 HD channels they provide?

If so, what cable do I need to connect it to the box to the card so I can watch HD cable channels on my tv turner, and most importantly, there is such a massive variety of tv turner cards out there now. I'm looking on spending anywhere from $50-70 dollars on a card that will work fine. My computer is rock solid so I'm not concerned about that but just want to make sure that I can do the cable HD channels on the monitor and any recommendations would be sooooooo great full.

Any info or advice would be so helpful as we're going to save a boat load of $$$ on either or, but just want to make sure my 24 inch 1080 can receive the HD cable channels by hooking up the box to the TV turner.

Edit: Put this in general hardware too and I'm so sorry but we're ordering it tomorrow so any info would be great.

 

[heymrdj]

What is your system? Are you going for PCI-E card or PCI. Or going external with USB. My brother owns a DVICO FusionHDTV7 USB for our laptops and it works awesome. At first with windows 7 64bit it was horrible, but then it worked quite well with their update. They were nearly first to market with win7 64bit drivers for a tv tuner product. I was going to go with the Happauge 2250 dual express tuner. However reviews and my brother convinced me that DVICO is still the way to go. I'll be ordering their DVICO FusionHDTV7 Dual Express for my system shortly (cash is a bit tight). It'll be awesome! (I hope). It's a bit pricey, but then again I haven't seen many high rated tuners for under 80$. They are quite complicated devices, *especially* on the software side. You're really paying for future software/OS support with these things (so your expensive device isn't sent down the road of the HP printer when your OS changes).

http://www.fusionhdtv.co.kr/ENG/products/HDTV7DualExpress.aspx