Best PCI HDTV card

[Iria_X]

can anyone tell me what the best HDTV card is out their to buy that is a PCI card. I have looked into it for a while and can't really decide on which one to pick up. I also need the card to be able to hook up to a my VCR.

 

[toprock23]

FusionHDTV 3 is a very good value. check it out http://www.copperbox.com/lite/manugen.php?manu=dvico

 

[Crashman]

Huappauge has an HDTV WinPVR, and like all their PVR series, they cost more because they have hardware encoding. But in this case you double the price AGAIN because it's HDTV.

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[RichPLS]

ATI's HD-TV Wonder Remote Edition is the best.


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[Crashman]

Hmm, best...Hauppauge offers 100% hardware compression, how much hardware assistance does the ATI card provide?

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[lb19984]

Ati is all right but the second gen should be exellent

System Spec's:
Asus P4c800-E 3.2e @3.8ghz
1gb corsair xms pro2-2-2-5 aiw 9800 pro
audigy 2zs klipsch ultra's
74gb raptor wd 2000jb
pioneer 108 pioneer 120s

 

[Athaclena]

I've got a VisionPlus DVB-t card, and it's fantastic, especially when used with the DigitalWatch software, developed entirely by the DVB user community.

I get perfect HDTV, including AC3 via SPDIF directly to my surround amp, and it was also one of the cheapest cards I found when I went shopping for it.

Recording is painless, excellent quality, and the resulting MPEG2 files can be burned directly to DVD. Using the WebScheduler frontend, I can even remotely program recordings from anywhere on the Net.

Oh, and with a bit of tweaking, it will work with Windows Media Center Edition as well.

If you'd like more info, check out the following forum, which also has info on other cards as well:

http://forums.dvbowners.com/

As far as hooking up to your VCR, none of the tuners I know of will output analogue video natively, you will still need a video card with a video-out.

<P ID="edit"><FONT SIZE=-1><EM>Edited by Athaclena on 09/19/04 08:06 PM.</EM></FONT></P>