Looking for a TV Tuner Card

I just saw HP is throwin in an HD tv tuner on some of their PCs. There's gotta be someone making these cards for their PCs.

The only 2 cents I can spend here are words of warning: In absolutely no case buy a product from pinnacle... If you want I can go into detail, but that would hurt...

C'mon now, slingbox looks nice and all, but wheres the hardware? What if i dont want to clog my intranet up with bandwidth heavy streaming video? The price is right though, its pro model is only 300 canuck bucks.

Aside from that, the ati hdtv tuner will be your best option, it doesnt have a dual tuner, so you cant record one show and watch another. The whole ati media center kinda leaches itself into the catalyst drivers, so if you have an ati gfx card, you'll have to uninstall every ati driver to update the media center. This can be a pain, and the media center updates are broken into 4 specific installs that have to be done in one order or else the whole dammed thing goes to hell. Once the installing is overwith the program works pretty well, the rf remote is great because you dont need line of site. I dont have the HD variety of ati's tuners, but i do have the tv wonder pro, and overall i am satisfied (note the driver were pure shat when i first got it, i couldnt even pause tv, pretty rediculous i think, but they support that now).

I dont know if over the air hdtv is any different than what your other hd source might be, but as far as i know, you're still going to have to have the box and connect that to the tuner (might as well just use the VIVO your gfx card has).

If I buy the TV Wonder Pro Remote control Edition, will I be able to plug in a video game console and play it on my monitor?

hey true romeo i got a question. totally unrelated but why do you got a evga 680i sli ccoupled with a prescott?

as for tv tuners i would suggest an ati all in wonder. however hauppauge is definitely not a bad choice either. i use one for my htpc and soon for my build for college.

My advice - stay away from tv tuners and either a) hook up your cable box to your pc or b) get a media extender of some sort so that you can watch tv through the cable box and/or view what's on your pc

Regular TV simply doesn't look good on any modern high-res LCD monitor, and HD will only work OTA and then only if you're lucky - the ATI HDTV card is the best for this but you still can't watch the things your really want in HD - discovery channel, espn, HBO, etc.
If you must get a tv tuner, go with the hauppage as someone mentioned or the ATI for OTA HD.

I was expecting a larger tax return to upgrade my PC from an AMD64 3200+ (newcastle, 754 pin)... but it wasn't as large as I was hoping, so I had to use a spare processor and this one was the fastest one I had laying around... glad I waited though... now I can pick up a Q6600 for $530 :] sweeeet

pvr-150 and gb-pvr is my combo and works good

wasn't saying anything bad just an interesting mix

NOOOOO dont do it man! You cant do that stock, there is too much lag between your control and your in-game movement, its like a solid 5 second lag. DO NOT shrug this warning off if you intend to play consol on through your moniter. There is programs that can take away the lag, but just so you are aware, you cannot connect a console out of the box. Can someone please find the program you'd need to eliminate this lag?

NOOOOO dont do it man! You cant do that stock, there is too much lag between your control and your in-game movement, its like a solid 5 second lag. DO NOT shrug this warning off if you intend to play consol on through your moniter. There is programs that can take away the lag, but just so you are aware, you cannot connect a console out of the box. Can someone please find the program you'd need to eliminate this lag?

Thanks for the warning, I will definitely consider it.

Hauppauge and ATI are tops. I like my Theater 650 but yeah, the software can be a little fiddly. I'm very fond of the feature that blends the video onto your desktop so you can work through what you're watching.

YMMV...

I would say the ATI HDTV variant is better but I have not tried both. All depends also on the availability of OTA HD in your area..

My recommendation would be the ATI Theater 550 or 650 Pro PCI card. I currently use the Theater 550 with solid results. The card does support S-Video input. Picture quality does not compare to my HDTV Plasma monitor, but I had never expected it to.

The ATI 550/650 Pro is priced reasonably, and has better than expected picture quality (of course, processor-ram-psu all play a role in video quality). I utilize the card for video capture with Pinnacle Studio software that I use (never had problems with Pinnacle), as well as with Nero 7 Ultra video capture and Vista Home Premium Edition Media Center.

I don't believe there is a TV/Capture video card for a PC that will provide you with the same picture quality as an HD monitor, but in my opinion the ATI card will offer a very good viewing experience, as well as broad capture functionality if you do any type of video editing. Lastly, HD TV/Capture cards are coming (ATI already has one, but it is only available with certain systems) but this could be quite a wait due to all of the insanity with DRM - Digital Rights Management.

I have the 650 and it gives me a half-second of lag. That's alot if you're thinking of gaming throught it. Otherwise it's negligible.