Tv tuners for my pc, resolution

[TheHutch]

i am gonna get a TV tuner preferrably PCI. I want the resolution no worse than 800X600. Price is an issue dont wanna spend too much Hopefully around $60 and under.

My computer is equipped with
amd 2800+
pc2700 333mhz 512DDR
ge ForceFX5200 128MB
160G western digital
soundblaster live 5.1



Please help me find a cheap, good resolution, and compatible tv tuner.
And where to buy it THANKS TO ALL

 

[powerMarkymark]

Leadtek WinFast TV 2000 XP Deluxe Tuner is a good card for $44.00.

You can view a Review of it and check out Newegg for the availability.

HTH

Mark

P.S. I have the older version of this card and it works great.

 

[Peter]

The TV resolution is a given. On NTSC, you get 480 lines and that's it. Period. (PAL: 576) Horizontally, TV tuners typically scale to 640 (768) pixels to get you a correct 4:3 aspect ratio, but the signal bandwidth doesn't yield more than about 360 distinguishable pixels.

Video digitizer chips, as found on those cards, can only scale down from there. Typically, their output is fed through the graphics card's video scalers. These will de-interlace, interpolate extra lines and pixels to scale up to the primary screen surface's dimensions, and maybe filter/smooth/anti-alias the image for you.

But natively, the standard broadcast TV signal resolution and quality is that low as it comes into your house.