TV Tuner card question

#1 cosmosys

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Posted 28 December 2003 - 10:33 AM

Im looking into buying a Tv tuner card for a machine im building to run Mythtv.
Im thinking about either the ATI TV Wonder or the Asus TV-FM card.
Has anyone had any experience with either card, or could recomend a similar or better 'cheap' tuner card?

#2 Vermyn

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Posted 28 December 2003 - 08:55 PM

No experience with that card... but I can personally vouch for the Leadtek TV2000XP card. Works beautifully with MythTV and TVTime (under Gentoo, but I've had it working under other distros too). I highly recommend it, especially since you can get it from newegg.com for under $30 now!

#3 prasket

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Posted 30 December 2003 - 10:14 PM

I havent installed it yet but have done some research and the tvcard I have, Kworld V-Stream Xpert (Conexant 878A chipset) TV / PVR PCI Card w/ FM Tuner, Retail Package seems to work. You can pick it up for $32 and $5 for shipping at
http://www.dealsonic.com/kworcon878ac.html?AID=8256927&PID=1167010

#4 Degenerate

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Posted 14 January 2004 - 12:45 AM

I always wanted a nice, cheap TV Tuner card for one of my spare computers (necesary now because of a Dreamcast I bought really cheap on eBay

). The thing is, I haven't gotten a lot of info about these cards. Do they need a high- or mid-end computer to run video smoothly? Can game consoles be connected with no problems? At what resolution can I get pretty good video quality, since most cheap TV Tuners out there only do 640x480? I'm seriously thinking about getting one soon, but I wish someone could send out some info on these. Thanks!