The best TV Tuner card for Cable...?
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Posted by Johanna on October 23, 2005, 12:58 am
Please log in for more thread options After lots of browsing on hardware review sites I still I can't work this out... which is the best TV card for displaying cable TV, e.g input from set-top box..? Trying to determine whether to use the All-in-Wonder card from ATI which would save space in my Shuttle... but had plenty of bad reviews about picture and drivers... Or pay up £150 for a top end Hauppage TV card and a buy the graphics card separately? Grateful for advice! Jo | ||||||||||||||||
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Posted by David Maynard on October 23, 2005, 2:56 am
Please log in for more thread options Johanna wrote: You're always better off with individual components instead of 'combo' anything even if for no other reason than you can pick the characteristics of each. Combo tuner/video cards put both devices on the same PCI port and PCI cannot stream both in and out to the same address at the same time so it's impossible to do any real time post/pre processing with them (what you see is the tuner output directly connected to the VGA output on the card itself). As for quality, I don't know how you're measuring it or what you're comparing it to but, remember, it can't be any better than the signal going into it and that's 'TV quality'. | ||||||||||||||||
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> this out... which is the best TV card for displaying cable TV, e.g input
> from set-top box..?
>
> Trying to determine whether to use the All-in-Wonder card from ATI which
> would save space in my Shuttle... but had plenty of bad reviews about
> picture and drivers...
>
> Or pay up £150 for a top end Hauppage TV card and a buy the graphics
> card separately?
>
> Grateful for advice!
> Jo