Best TV Tuner Card ?

[janteby]

Hello,

I am new to building computers & have just built my first Media PC.

For the TV Tuner card I am using the

POWERCOLOR T55E-P03 PCI-Express x1 Interface TV tuner card (ATI Theater 550).

I am also using Widnows Media Center 2005 for the Operating system,
& a Gforce 7600GS for the Video card.

I am hooking it up a Sony 42" Plasma TV older model, few years old.

I live in NJ, have Cablevision for my TV & am plugging in the Cable Coaxil cable righ to the Tuner Card.

Everything seems to be working fine, the TV picture is pretty decent but not perfect, not that sharp.

I was wondering is their anything I can do differently to get a better picture, ideally perfect.

Should I be using a different TV tuner card ?
Is their perhaps a better TV tuner card out there for a better picture (money no object)

Perhaps other settings I can change ? other hardware that would make a differnce ?

Any help that anyone could provide would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you,
Jeff

[craigap]

I have two of those tuners and mine give me a great picture. You can adjust recording quality up to 5.9 gb/hr for max quality . Your picture quality with analog cable is going to depend a lot on the strength of your cable signal. This, at first guess, would be the reason your not getting a perfect picture. Even individual channels can come in at different qualities from time to time with analog cable. Another thing you can do to increase picture quality is to use the best available video connection. Primarily, DVI or HDMI.

Craig

[newbuilder14]

A friend of mine said his ATI Elite Pro (I think?) is great, and I believe anything from Hauppauge is good.