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SpykeZ

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Posted: Tue, 22nd Jan 2008 06:14 Post subject: New disk drive and tv tuner	Quick Quote Quote

question 1) Anyone have any experience with this disk drive? http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16827135156 2) What's a good tv tuner? I was looking at the Happauge WinTV models.

swingman

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Posted: Tue, 22nd Jan 2008 10:15 Post subject:	Quick Quote Quote

Hauppage has become pretty much the standard since it introduced hardware encoders although there are cards which deliver better quality. http://www.techreport.com/articles.x/8208 http://www.anandtech.com/video/showdoc.aspx?i=2393&p=1 There is also a good quality card called the saber 2020 for pci express 1x slots. In any case avoid Pinnacle because that's one card I do have experience with and it's not good. Driver support is very bad.

deelix
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Posted: Tue, 22nd Jan 2008 10:40 Post subject:	Quick Quote Quote

Why not go for Nec instead? Cheap, and reliable.

$en$i
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Posted: Tue, 22nd Jan 2008 15:09 Post subject:	Quick Quote Quote

I have an Avermedia hybrid card (analog/DVB-T), it was damn cheap while better than the others crappy TV tuner and brands previously tested (Pinnacle, Hauppage, Leadtek). Good drivers support (vista x86 & x64 from its beta version), decent software, fully recognized by Windows Media center, etc. edit: http://www.avermedia.com/avertv/Product/ Last edited by $en$i on Tue, 22nd Jan 2008 23:31; edited 1 time in total

SpykeZ

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Posted: Tue, 22nd Jan 2008 23:12 Post subject:	Quick Quote Quote

I like the ATI TV wonder quality but the question is, how shitty is driver support. It is ATI afterall.

nouseforaname
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Posted: Tue, 22nd Jan 2008 23:36 Post subject:	Quick Quote Quote

this thing looks pretty neat ... http://www.avermedia.com/AVerTV/Product/ProductDetail.aspx?Id=293 asus z170-A \|\| core i5-6600K \|\| geforce gtx 970 4gb \|\| 16gb ddr4 ram \|\| win10 \|\| 1080p led samsung 27"

$en$i
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Posted: Tue, 22nd Jan 2008 23:47 Post subject:

SpykeZ wrote:

I like the ATI TV wonder quality but the question is, how shitty is driver support. It is ATI afterall.

Well this isn't really like their gfx cards for which it seems that you need a new batch of drivers for every new game. Smile

Their TV tuners have Vista and XP drivers but not linux ones : http://ati.amd.com/support/driver.html

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