What TV tuner card to get?

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Zorro

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Ordered a new Dell with MCE2005 now looking for a tv/pvr card.
Which one.

Win pvr500
or
ATI elite
 
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loup garou

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500 is a dual tuner card, do you need 2 tuners? If not, just go with the 150, mine looks great with the nVidia PureVideo decoder. I've heard good things about the ATI Elite as well.
 
SarcasticDwarf

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I originally purchased an ATI tuner and had constant problems with horrible drivers. I now have a Hauppauge PVR-250, and it is ok. The drivers are mostly-usable and the tv app is good.
 
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middlehead

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Originally posted by: SmoochyTX
wrong forum
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Haven't you heard? Nik's the local section nazi. You're taking his livelihood!



And I'm still looking to get either a PVR150 or 250, depending on the deals available when I finally get un-lazy and make the order
 
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kalster

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pvr 250 is good (i have the usb version, pvr 2 usb), i use the nvidia decoder too and it works very good with MCE with great picture quality
 
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mercanucaribe

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Media Center sucks. My friend was looking forward to getting a laptop with MCE for months, then finally got one and it was terrible. It has a lot of annoying problems, like the fact that its volume control is the same as the system volume, so you can't change it independently. It also is constantly recording, with no way to turn that off, so there is a lag of a few seconds. And you won't be able to do anything with the (huge) files that it records.
 
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kalster

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Originally posted by: mercanucaribe
Media Center sucks. My friend was looking forward to getting a laptop with MCE for months, then finally got one and it was terrible. It has a lot of annoying problems, like the fact that its volume control is the same as the system volume, so you can't change it independently. It also is constantly recording, with no way to turn that off, so there is a lag of a few seconds. And you won't be able to do anything with the (huge) files that it records.
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negative, its not constantly recording, well sort of, its buffering, so you can rewind, pause, that is kind of the point of pvr, i am sure there must be a way to turn it off (or reduce the buffer size to minimum), overall its really good IMO, good integration between all aaps (music, hdtv support, vidoes (shared across network ) etc.
 
Kelemvor

Kelemvor

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Originally posted by: loup garou
500 is a dual tuner card, do you need 2 tuners? If not, just go with the 150, mine looks great with the nVidia PureVideo decoder. I've heard good things about the ATI Elite as well.
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loup garou

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Originally posted by: iamskew
Originally posted by: daniel1113
Originally posted by: iamskew
myhd mp-130 or the latest fusion card... www.digitalconnection.com
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Those are HD, which I don't think the OP wants.
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who doesn't want HD? ;)
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Well, technically, you need an analog tuner anyways for your HD card to work in MCE, so he'd have to get one of the earlier recommended cards anyways. ;)
 
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