Help me finish my system!

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Angel Peralta

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would like to ask for a recommendation for a software encoding TV Tuner.

I need a TV Tuner card to connect my Tivo and Wii to my PC. I've researched all of the popular Hauppauge and ATI cards and it turns out that they have hardware encoding which delays the picture by a few seconds. This makes it extremely difficult to use my Tivo or game system through my TV Tuner. Can anyone recommend a card that does not have hardware encoding so that I don't have a picture delay? Or a card that will allow me to have a real time (no delay) feed.

I would prefer ATI over Hauppauge as I really dislike the WinTV software.

I'm using Vista Premium, and I would prefer an internal PCI or PCIe card, preferably under $200

In my previous system I had an ATI all in Wonder card that was able to do this, however, that card is like 8 years old now, and it's AGP based so I can't use it in my new system.

Any help would be appreciated, I built my system about 3 months ago and this is the only piece that's missing, help me finish my project!
 
Thanks CrimandEvil, but I would prefer a TV Tuner because I like to watch TV and use my computer at the same time.

I like to make the TV window in a little square and drag it into a corner while I browse the internet or work in Excel or Word. If I'm correct with this device I can only do one at a time right?
 
any suggestions??? I've been stuck with this question for several months now. Why doesn't someone make a TV Tuner with no lag? I know it can be done, if my old ATI AIW can do it there has to be something new that can do it. Somebody HELP!!!
 
You will NOT want to pass any game console through a TV tuner card, particularly one that does hardware encoding. And for TV tuner cards to watch TV on you really want one with HW encoding.

Reason being is the HW encoding adds a bit of lag to the video, which is a non-issue for TV but a huge problem for games.
 
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