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glagic

04-09-2003, 04:27 PM

does anyone use a tv tuner in their computer? if so, how well do these things work? im kinda intruiged by the idea of being able to watch tv on my comp. any brand to get of one? or am i better off just getting a radeon all-in-wonder?

Cantacuzene

04-09-2003, 04:49 PM

If you have the $ get the all in wonder. I have a WinTV card. It was like $20 and it works well. Co-ax cable only though. Get one that suits your input needs fully.

glagic

04-09-2003, 05:54 PM

Originally posted by Cantacuzene
If you have the $ get the all in wonder. I have a WinTV card. It was like $20 and it works well. Co-ax cable only though. Get one that suits your input needs fully.

how does it look on the monitor with the WinTv card? also, are there any that allow you to watch tv with either cable tv connection or through an antenna?

glagic

04-09-2003, 09:19 PM

i have a radeon 7500 right now....would that work?

ski

04-09-2003, 09:49 PM

I've pretty much tried them all. I've had 2 WinTV's (Hauppauge), ATI TV Wonder VE, and Leadtek Winfast Deluxe TV2000XP.

The Leadtek is BY FAR the best quality, ease of use, and overall best card I've had. For about $10 more, it came with a remote and FM reception (although it doesn't come in really well down here). About $55 at Newegg.com

Apex

04-10-2003, 01:07 AM

Don't settle for BT848/878 at this point. No real reason to. If you really have your heart set on a Leadtek, get the Leadtek Winfast TV2000 Expert.

revoh

04-15-2003, 01:31 PM

Originally posted by Apex
Don't settle for BT848/878 at this point. No real reason to. If you really have your heart set on a Leadtek, get the Leadtek Winfast TV2000 Expert. Is it just me, or have they not released this yet? I've searched around quite a while and the only thing I can come up with are the specs at the leadtek site here: [Link (http://www.leadtek.com.tw/www/Web_Leadtek/multimedia/winfast_tv2000xp_expert.html)]. Any site selling this yet or know how much it will cost?

revoh

04-15-2003, 01:48 PM

Thanks DarkFury, but Apex was talking about the Expert version of that card and I could not locate that at newegg. I only found the Deluxe version there. There seems to be 3 versions of the card...regular, deluxe and expert. :rolleyes:

Apex

04-15-2003, 02:21 PM

The expert will perform almost identically with the Asus 880 card (same chip, almost identical tuner).

I'll be getting the Flyvideo 3000 TV/FM in a few days. I'll be able to compare those two cards (since I've had the Asus for about a month now).

I'll let you know if the Philips 9-bit card or the Cognexant 10-bit is better