TV Tuner Cards? [Archive]

Marlin

03-24-2002, 12:22 PM

What TV card would you folks recomend?
System specs.
Asus P4t-E Board
P4 1.6A
256 megs Samsung RDRAM
Geforce 4 MX 440
Creative Audigy
LG DVD
Plextor 8/4/32 CD-RW

glc

03-24-2002, 02:12 PM

Hauppauge WinTV or ATI TV Wonder.

Marlin

03-24-2002, 02:19 PM

Thanks glc. Your thoughts are highly valued. Thanks again.

jamesrpm

03-24-2002, 08:31 PM

I'm using the ATI TV Wonder Ve and like it ,but I'm running win 98se ,heard there may be problems with XP drivers.

dave computer

03-24-2002, 08:46 PM

Can someone explain to me what a tv card is? I'm a newbie on the subject

Marlin

03-24-2002, 09:56 PM

Thanks for the info jamesrpm. I'm running 98se also. Forgot to put that in the first post. I'll most likely get an ATI card because of the price. Hey dave computer, a tv card lets you watch TV on your comp. Thanks again all.

highrisemech

03-24-2002, 10:28 PM

As far as I know there are only two types of video card that are compatible with the ATI TV Wonder VE and the are the ATI line of video cards and Nvidia video cards.

03-25-2002, 01:44 AM

Can someone explain to me what a tv card is? I'm a newbie on the subject

A TV card is an add-on card with a TV-tuner, allowing you to connect your antenna cable to your PC to watch TV on your computer monitor.

RJ

cobra

03-25-2002, 07:13 AM

I have an ATI allinwonder Radeon, and love it.

rsm32

03-30-2002, 07:14 AM

One thing I am unsure of with TV cards is this - can you use TV card with analogue ariel, or do I need to purchase digital receiver?

Many thanks

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ur4dr

03-30-2002, 07:42 AM

[A TV card is an add-on card with a TV-tuner, allowing you to connect your antenna cable to your PC to watch TV on your computer monitor.

RJ]

Can I record tv program to hard disk with help of tv card?

ur4dr

03-30-2002, 07:42 AM

There are different TV cards. . analog. . digital. SAT cards, etc.
When you go to www.hauppauge.com there you can see the full range of TV tuner card products.

And yes, you also can record TV program to hard disk. The WinTV PVR, for example, has a MPEG-2 encoding chip, allowing you to capture directly into VCD, SVCD or DVD format.
With a basic TV card you'll need a software codec and some CPU power to capture TV programs.
And of course a second hard drive will reduce the risk of dropped frames.

RJ