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TV Tuner Recomendations

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wetcat007

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I'm looking for a good TV/FM tuner, i will use it to watch TV on my PC as well as capture video to my hd, I have a plenty fast HD and CPU, so those should not be a problem. I was looking at the WinTV-FM card, but i think it says u can only capture up to 320x240 rez on there, and I would like to capture at max rez of TV's which is 720x480/640x480. I also need one that is fully windows XP compatible. Thanks!

-Mark
 
I think the highest any tuner card goes right now is 640x480. The newest card is the Asus 880. However, the leadtek winfast tv2000XP Deluxe is an excellent card as well...with excellent picture quality and stereo sound.
 
I think the highest any tuner card goes right now is 640x480
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One of my tuners supports to 1920 X 1080🙂 I think that win-tv card will do full 480 line capture with the generic bt drivers, but I wouldn't go with a hauppage card, especially in XP.
 
However, the leadtek winfast tv2000XP Deluxe is an excellent card as well...with excellent picture quality and stereo sound.
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If I am not mistaken, the Leadtek only offers stereo sound in FM radio, not TV.
 
Originally posted by: Technonut
However, the leadtek winfast tv2000XP Deluxe is an excellent card as well...with excellent picture quality and stereo sound.
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If I am not mistaken, the Leadtek only offers stereo sound in FM radio, not TV.
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You're right...thanks for pointing that out
 
Originally posted by: Punisher007
Originally posted by: Technonut
However, the leadtek winfast tv2000XP Deluxe is an excellent card as well...with excellent picture quality and stereo sound.
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If I am not mistaken, the Leadtek only offers stereo sound in FM radio, not TV.
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You're right...thanks for pointing that out
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I have this card (not the deluxe model) and my TV is definately stereo.

Mark
 
I don't have my Deluxe card installed right now. But from what I remember the TV was in stereo. Pink's "Like A Pill" was killer on it. 😉
 
Originally posted by: wetcat007
from the sound of it I should foret haupagge brand.

-Mark
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Well, the good thing about Hauppauge's card - the WinTV-PVR - it's got a lot of good hardware on the card, namely the hardware MPEG2 encoder. You can encode full resolution MPEG2, and it does so with almost no impact to CPU load - you can use the computer while it's recording, without risking skipped frames. Only problem with their stuff is that their drivers aren't the best (which is being said with restraint from what I'd REALLY like to say.😉)
 
If I was you, I'd avoid the Hauppauge card. From what I've heard, the drivers are hell. You won't care about the hardware MPEG2 encoder if you can't get the card to work right. I've been using the Leadtek Winfast tv2000XP Deluxe for around 3 weeks now. Overall, its a great card. The only initial problem I had dealt with the radio volume being too low, that has since been worked out though. The card has great picture quality, a very nice recording program (easy to schedule recordings) and comes with a remote. I think you'll be more than happy with it. At 60 bucks it can't be beat.
 
Is the leadtek card cpu intenstive? Such as if I was to start up something else or scroll down a webpage quickly, will the picture freeze until it gets cpu cycles again?
 
Originally posted by: brtspears2
Is the leadtek card cpu intenstive? Such as if I was to start up something else or scroll down a webpage quickly, will the picture freeze until it gets cpu cycles again?
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I'm running an 1800+ @1701 and it never stutters for me. Your 2100+ should handle it fine.
 
whats a better idea,

1) buy a all in one vid card, a la ati AIW or

2) buy tuner card, and graphic card seprate?

whats better? i have older model ati aiw, and i notice that i can not use hardware acc. when viewing tv tuner. i lose all my 3d support and other vid hardware when tv tuner is on. is this normal? even in new models? would option 2 fix this problem?
 
I think buying them seperate is best, unless u havea real lack of PCI slots or something, the reason being is, you probabily upgrade you video card fairly often, but each time u gotta pay extra and have a limityed selection if u want a all in one, vs. just having an all in one card and being able to select any vid card, the price difference favors towards buying a seperate on in my opinion.

-Mark
 
Originally posted by: brtspears2
Is the leadtek card cpu intenstive? Such as if I was to start up something else or scroll down a webpage quickly, will the picture freeze until it gets cpu cycles again?
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Takes about 9-15% just watching TV (Win XP).

It does stereo and 640x480. The software included is quite good. You could do much worse than this card.
 
😉

Cool I think I was gonna get a 7500AIW I might just now get that leadtek instead 😀

I do like the ATI remote better though.
 
Is there any way to get the ATI Remote Wonder to work with other brand name TV Tuner cards? I don't really want ATI's TV tuner card because I heard they don't have very good drivers.
 
So who has one of these Leadtek's ?

Does it work similarly to TIVO as well?

and is the remote any good/?
 
and is the remote any good/?
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I've never used TIVO, so...

The remote is very nice. You can start up both the radio and tv programs with it (assuming you have the software running in the system tray). In addition to the normal channel/volume buttons, it has a full screen button, a sleep timer, a "boss key" and pip controls. It also allows you to start and stop recording, and to take snapshots.
 
I have the leadtek winfast 2000xp deluxe and have been more than pleased with it (especially since its latest software update). It does have stereo tv capability. In college i use it just about every day from viewing sports to watching late night tv shows and it rocks. I even used it to hook up my roomates XBOX to my computer. I have used it to record TV shows and it works like a TIVO, at least in my opinion, using its 'time shifting' feature. I can record the tv input in 640x480 mode...but i don't think thats the true resolution. It probably just doubles the pixels or something (im not sure about that).

Anway there is an old thread in the hot deals forum about the card and its features.
http://forums.anandtech.com/messageview.cfm?catid=40&threadid=868032&highlight_key=y&keyword1=leadtek

Also, search for HDTV in this forum...i think someone posted a topic on an hdtv pci card. it was expensive, but the sample pictures were amazing.
 
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