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Thread ID: 67613 2006-04-01 09:55:00 T.V. tuner card recomendations? JimboJones (1680) Press F1
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442800 2006-04-01 09:55:00 Hi every one .

I want to go out tomorrow and by a tuner card for my pc quick . Does any one have any recommendations? I don't know anything about T . V . tuners, so what are the things I should be looking out for?




Jimbob
JimboJones (1680)
442801 2006-04-01 11:05:00 i purchased the leadteck 2000xp deluxe tuner card and its working way better than i expected, easy to install, easy to use...

just a downside of cannot record subtitles when recording program to hard drive or VCR if you hook that up 2 it (i havent but its possible)

but yeah its really good, comes with some editing software etc etc...so yeah...
but thats my comment, i'm sure there are others who recommend other ones and yeah..
csinclair83 (200)
442802 2006-04-01 21:03:00 Make sure you get one that can work WIth Windows Media Centre...... It's way worth it in the end.

And some manufacturers try to fool you with the cheepies by making them USB 1

And make sure you've got a good resolution on the card
maverickoc (7240)
442803 2006-04-01 21:16:00 I have got the Hauppauge Win TV PVR-350 (www.hauppauge.com) in my PC and it is great, does everything I want and not too expensive :) The_End_Of_Reality (334)
442804 2006-04-01 22:24:00 I have just bought a Leadtek TV2000 XP RM card. HAven't used it much as yet so don't know what is really like.
www.leadtek.com.tw

Trevor :)
Trev (427)
442805 2006-04-01 23:35:00 I have a Winfast TV & FM tuner card, the same (I believe) as the Leadteck mentioned above and I am happy with it. If I am not mistaken, there are not many choices here in NZ and the Winfast/Leadteck card is the predominant one on the market. Strommer (42)
442806 2006-04-02 00:48:00 I think I went through every TV tuner card in my local computer shop. In the end end I went for a LifeView FlyTV Platinum TV Tuner.

The key reason I went for thing was the Philips 7135 chipset - worldwide TV Tuner to handle both NTSC and PAL (various variants). This was to let me capture old video tapes, including some from overseas, so that I could output them to DVD. This generally works but has a couple of issues.


NTSC video tapes captured (from PAL VCR with NTSC playback) have a type of video interference - probably due to the difference in vertical scanlines.
After a while the video and audio get out of synch. Although this could be in part due to the fact that my PC is 5 years old and can't keep up. However it can be annoying in the rare event that I'm using my PC as a second video recorder (rare because there's hardly ever anything on worth watching on one channel let alone two)


However, despite the problems its still been worthwhile.

Cheers
AndrewMercer (9663)
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