PC TV Tuner Card

anyone have one?  mainly i\'d be using it for its digital vcr features(records programs when i\'m away, etc.) and i\'d like to view tv on my monitor.  anyone have any experience/recommendations on one(not a vid card with a built in one)?

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i sure do.  Great little card, Its a TV Excel BT848 Chipset TV/FM Capture card.  Very cheap card, Used to use it all the time for capturing. Not much these days, just watch TV on it here and then.  It also has piss poor support. I\'m using drivers for other cards that support the same chipset.

For budget cards (<$100):

Lifeview Flyvideo 3000.  Uses the popular Philips SAA7130 chipset that has been the budget chip of choice for close to a year now.  S-video quality arguably the best for under $100, and no noise.  I have the 2000 model, which doesn\'t have stereo capability from an antenna, but doesn\'t matter to me since all I use is the S-video input.

>$100:

WinTV Hauppauge PVR-250 + SageTV combo.  Top notch quality for NTSC broadcasts.  Punchy colors, no noise, and user-friendly.  Can be bought without SageTV but this software is perfect for PVR\'ing and can even control an outboard cable box/VCR.

If you have a slower CPU or would like to be doing other things on your computer while you\'re capturing consider the PVR-350 which uses hardware encoding (your main CPU isn\'t doing any work during capturing), buut it\'s about $100 extra.

what\'s the best DVR software out there?  my card came with WinDVR and i\'m wondering if its comparable to the better software out.

SageTV is but it\'s not free.  Other competitors that are free are:

GB-PVR




GotTV PVR



People usuallly go with what works with their card.  Make sure the software does before you go with it.