TV Tuner

[f1y]

My apartment I'm in now I just stay in my room upstairs, and play games or watch dvd's I have ripped to my harddrive. I was looking into getting a TV tuner but i've never owned one. All I want is to hook my cable jack up to scan for channels, full screen it, and watch some mindless dribble for hours. Then of course a remote, I don't do that getting up to change the channel shit. Thats not how I roll. ;-)

The two card I was looking at.

Leadtek - $30
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814122221
Hauppauge $50
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16815116626

Of course theres going to be some quality issue at 1680x1050, but will it be suitable. Will there be an offset in audio to video.. Like mouths move the words a half a sec afterwords. What tv tuner do you have... Every single card on newegg is kinda split. Half of them say it sucks, and the other half love it death. Will I be able to get out cheap? sys specs may be in sig, not sure.

 

[vanilla_guerilla]

neither. get the hauppauge pvr150mce. or get a hi def/stv tuner, like this one


http://www.pcalchemy.com/product_in...tsc-and-ntsc-white-box/cName/hdtv-tuner-cards

or this one

http://www.pcalchemy.com/product_in...nd-ntsc-pci-whitebox/cName/pvr-cardstv-tuners

so you can watch hi def and reg cable on your monitor.

you should consider getting mce or vista. also, you will get better answer to these type questions on the htpc forum here, and shop for htpc stuff at pcalchemy.com, not newegg.

 

[Adidas4275]

do not get the leadtek you will be disatisfied...

the ATI 550 series tuners are really good....... the 650 series is great for HDTV also

this really should me moved to the HTPC thread

 

[f1y]

cool i'll check out pcalchemy... I looked for like 5 whole minutes where to put the thread and htpc didn't hit me Thanks.

I need HD channels to view hd right? I don't have those. I'm just looking for something to watch simpons, or family guy... house and scrubs and stuff. $90 I could buy just a basic 20in' old school tv.. I was trying to stay under $60, but if for 25 more i get ALOT more I'd much rather go that route. Thanks for the input..


I have a copy Vista Ultimate.. I may load that up, but right now I don't like Vista on my Game box. I may eventually look into a dedicated htpc

 

[sirholio]

you probably do have hd. Stations in your area probably have them available over the air. for your regular cable channels, plug your cable into the sd input and if you get a card that can get HD, then plug a simple antenna into that.