Tuner card recommendations

[quahitis]

I'm building a HTPC and I need recommendations for a tuner card to work with Dish Network. I don't need HD at the moment but I probably will by the end of the year.

Thanks

 

[Adidas4275]

without owning or using dish my understanding is that you need a dish box and hook up a tuner card to the box. so i would recommend any good analg tuner card. haupauge pvr-150, hvr-1600 hvr-1800, ati 550 or 650 chipset. avermedia has some good cards also.

 

[SippieCup]

without owning or using dish my understanding is that you need a dish box and hook up a tuner card to the box. so i would recommend any good analg tuner card. haupauge pvr-150, hvr-1600 hvr-1800, ati 550 or 650 chipset. avermedia has some good cards also.

DO NOT get the pvr-150

as good as it is, with vista its junk. took me 3 months to get it working on x64. also it is not high def, and the colors are sometimes wayy off (but that may be a driver issue)

 

[ambientZ]

You wouldn't be using a 'tuner' with dish, you'd be using the video capture side. Something like the pvr150 with hardware mpeg2 encoding would be what you wanted, although SippieCup says it doesnt work well in vista.

HD tuners are not what you want. They don't capture hd, just tune it. Hauppauge has a new hd capture box that works with component cables that might do what you want. Then you'll just need an ir blaster arrangement to change the channels on the dish box.