Video/TV card recommendations?

[Guest]

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What are good video/tv/DVD hardware decoder cards to use. Either combo or
separate is ok. Also, I'd like a recommendation for an FM tuner. Right now
I'm using an ATI TV-Wonder with a Radeon card (no DVD hardware decoder). I'm
not too wild about them (hard to update drivers, TV is mono only, kinda
buggy).

I'm not a gamer, but I still like good, fast performance. My machine is a
P4-2.6c (with hyper-treading) running XP Pro SP1.

Thanks in advance,
Joe

 

[Paul]

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P4's shouldn't / dont need a DVD decoder card.

They're fast enough to deal with DVD.

You would need DVD software to watch a DVD with XP. (Like PowerDVD) so it
installs a DVD codec.

I use the Leadtek TV2000 deluxe card which is
a good tuner. It has FM built in as well. It also lets
you record programs to hdd with the program it comes
with.



"JRE" <nomail@all> wrote in message
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> What are good video/tv/DVD hardware decoder cards to use. Either combo or
> separate is ok. Also, I'd like a recommendation for an FM tuner. Right now
> I'm using an ATI TV-Wonder with a Radeon card (no DVD hardware decoder).
I'm
> not too wild about them (hard to update drivers, TV is mono only, kinda
> buggy).
>
> I'm not a gamer, but I still like good, fast performance. My machine is a
> P4-2.6c (with hyper-treading) running XP Pro SP1.
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Joe
>
>