TV tuner cards

[irvin]

Hi,

 

anyone here using TV tuner card to watch TV/Cable TV programmes on their PC?

 

if so, can recommend which brand and model good?

[Huggable]

The Leadtek TV2000XP is quite good, comes with lots of useful features like FM tuner, direct burn to VCD/DVD, remote control, and (not totally real) picture-in-picture. Had a Pinnacle PCTV but gave me lots of driver problems.

[oceanb70]

i use Pinnacle PCTV pro card.. no problem and to me... quite good except when do recording.. the sound not good... the best part is i used the remote as other function like.... control Wimamp, etc......

[none]

hauppauge

[stsoh]

i use the cheap tv card, pixelview playtv pro @$85.

[Huggable]

Originally posted by oceanb70@Apr 19 2005, 08:24 PM

i use Pinnacle PCTV pro card.. no problem and to me... quite good except when do recording.. the sound not good... the best part is i used the remote as other function like.... control Wimamp, etc......

What OS and driver version are you using? I have the v5 drivers, but it could not work on Win XP. I tried downloading the v6 at Pinnacle FTP site but it was very slow, and always aborted before the entire file was downloaded.

[nite_fire]

normally how much it cost for the card? no need to be very good but reliable one? like the Leadtek Huggable mentioned?

[Huggable]

In the region of S$90-95. Hang around Sim Lim Square to get find the best deal.

[nite_fire]

but then the reception clear or not? it uses antenna rite? sorry i know nothing about tv tuner card...

thanks for help..

[Blackenese]

How does the TV tuner card work?

[jB]

you insert it like a wi fi card or sth and you get a drive installed into yr cpu (=

 

think this is how it works..not sure sorry if wrong info given..

[jkaiser]

Originally posted by nite_fire@April 20, 2005 05:49 pm

but then the reception clear or not? it uses antenna rite? sorry i know nothing about tv tuner card...

thanks for help..

for strong signal, connect direct to cable point. If you want, u can connect an SCV set top as well

[Blackenese]

thanx guys