TV card

[wolf550e]

i need advise for a tv tuner card, which will allow a duron with ati rage 128 pro 32mb to view TV from cable on full screen 17" monitor at the highest quality possible.

no need for editing, no need for ac3, only view at high res, preferably win2k compliant but not neccessery.

i know of ATI TVrage, WinTV and smth from pinnacle. please compare specs and provide links. personal experience is very apriciated.

(dont kill me over the spelling)

TIA

 

[Jonny]

Avoid ATI TV Wonder if you are using Windows 2000.

 

[Noriaki]

I love my ATi TV Wonder, both in full screen mode and in a window.

But they have no Win2k drivers, so you'll have to dodge it.
Haupagge WinTV has the best Win2k drivers from what I can tell, though I personanly don't much like the quality on the Haupagge.


Just a note on viewing TV full screen on a monitor:
Cable signals are usually 640x480 or sometimes even only 320x240 (or was it x400 and x200? Can't remember now...) if you have your Monitor in 1024x768 or even 800x600 and you put it full screen and look really close it'll be a bit blurry.

I have in 800x600 and I watch TV full screen, just sit back a bit and it looks fine, just don't sit really close.
(this is general for any TV card)

 

[Davegod75]

I'm using the wintv with dbx stereo and it's works great with w2k

 

[Raincity]

The Ati tv wonder Win2k beta drivers are out but its hard to get on the Ati pre release list. I have been running them for a couple of weeks with no issues so far. I would hang in there. I think Ati will release the win2k beta for everybody via email request in early Nov,


Rain

 

[wolf550e]

which card has the best image quality?
do i need a special version for non US TV? (middle east, i think we have the european system)

 

[Noriaki]

NSTC I think? is the north american system, PAL is the european system, ATi at least I know supports both.

I'm not sure if the same board supports both or if there's two different versions, but you probably won't be able to buy the wrong kind locally, so just watch out in online shopping.

And neither version is really a "special" version, they are both normal versions.