TV tuner AIW cards

[Snoop]

Im looking for some help in deciding what kind of card I should get for a client. He absolutely 'needs' a tv tuner card. I have looked around a bit but have not found many good roundups of the different cards, and what all the features I should look for and what is available. I would like it to be under 100 bucs(if a video card + tv tuner would be fine up to 200), and likely an addon pci card. I have looked at the Radeon series of AIW cards and while they do look appealing, I have had repeated problems with ATI cards in the past and dont know If I can trust them on a machine that I will have to service. This thing CANNOT be unstable and must play games, DVD's and watch movies without reloading drivers weekly. Has ATI gotten their drivers stable enough for builders to use them?

Four different cards I have looked at:
-Radeon 7500 AIW, which in a thread i just read was haveing driver problems in XP which is the OS i was going to use.
-HAUPPAUGE WINTV-GO
-HAUPPAUGE Wintv- Radio
-Pinnacle StudioDV

 

[DoOLiE11]

i've had my AIW radeon in w2k and windsows xp

both have been solid and have wokred fine

 

[Wolfsraider]

my radeon aiw has tested fine in me 98 98se and xp pro

every thing works great for me


hope this helps

 

[Willoughbyva]

I have the AIW 7500 and it is much better than the Wintv go card. I had the Hauppage wintvgo card and the drivers for xp sucked. The drivers for the AIW 7500 are great. I vote for the AIW 7500 it has hardware assisted capturing (in some formats, but not all) the Hauppage card doesn't.

Will

 

[Snoop]

Hey, well on second thought, maybe i will look a little more closely at the ATI. I just dont want to have to f with it constantly whenever he loads a new game. So the drivers are stable in most games?

 

[RaiderJ]

I have an older AIW 128 in my SV24, and everything works great, from games to DVD's. The only problem I've encounted is I get frame skipping when using ATI's DVD player, but not in Windows Media Player. Go figure.