Can anyone give me some good, affordable TV Tuners that work well w/ Vista
Media Center? I would like to get one w/ a PCI interface, but I also do have
a PCI Express x1 slot available. I guess USB wouldn't be out of the question
either as long as the picture quality is decent. Thanks in advance,

Todd

Hauppauge 1062 PCI Interface WinTV-PVR-150 MCE Kit Tuner Card, Includes.
MCE Remote Control.
[url]http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16815116631[/url]


ATI PCI Interface TV Wonder 550PCI, No Remote
[url]http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16815294004[/url]



"Todd Marks" <ToddMarks@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:70A5BC9D-FF79-471D-9415-D6C002AC24F6@microsoft.com...[color=blue]
> Can anyone give me some good, affordable TV Tuners that work well w/ Vista
> Media Center? I would like to get one w/ a PCI interface, but I also do
> have
> a PCI Express x1 slot available. I guess USB wouldn't be out of the
> question
> either as long as the picture quality is decent. Thanks in advance,
>
> Todd[/color]

Todd Marks wrote:[color=blue]
> Can anyone give me some good, affordable TV Tuners that work well w/
> Vista Media Center? I would like to get one w/ a PCI interface, but
> I also do have a PCI Express x1 slot available. I guess USB wouldn't
> be out of the question either as long as the picture quality is
> decent. Thanks in advance,
>
> Todd[/color]

I'm using a PCI Hauppage WinTV-NOVA-T-500 which has dual tuners and is
working perfectly under Vista.

I'm intrigued by this one, but it seems that this product is only available
over in the UK.

"Neil Harley" wrote:
[color=blue]
> Todd Marks wrote:[color=green]
> > Can anyone give me some good, affordable TV Tuners that work well w/
> > Vista Media Center? I would like to get one w/ a PCI interface, but
> > I also do have a PCI Express x1 slot available. I guess USB wouldn't
> > be out of the question either as long as the picture quality is
> > decent. Thanks in advance,
> >
> > Todd[/color]
>
> I'm using a PCI Hauppage WinTV-NOVA-T-500 which has dual tuners and is
> working perfectly under Vista.
>[/color]

Todd Marks wrote:[color=blue]
> I'm intrigued by this one, but it seems that this product is only
> available over in the UK.[/color]


Hauppage make many cards and will have one for your setup. If you can't find
a dual tuner card and have the PCI slots available try a couple from the PVR
range. There will be many on-line reviews for you to read so you can buy the
right card for your setup.

If you have analogue reception, the card must have hardware mpg encoding if
it is to work with Windows Media Center. This usually means one of the PVR
cards.

Provided there are drivers for a card, it does not have to use Windows Media
Center and can use any software which will accept the driver output.

Digital programme streams are already encoded mpg2, so hardware encoding is
not required.

Not all cards have 64-bit Vista drivers.



"Todd Marks" <ToddMarks@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:70A5BC9D-FF79-471D-9415-D6C002AC24F6@microsoft.com...[color=blue]
> Can anyone give me some good, affordable TV Tuners that work well w/ Vista
> Media Center? I would like to get one w/ a PCI interface, but I also do
> have
> a PCI Express x1 slot available. I guess USB wouldn't be out of the
> question
> either as long as the picture quality is decent. Thanks in advance,
>
> Todd[/color]

The Hauppauge USB2 PVR is a popular tuner with Vista.
"Todd Marks" <ToddMarks@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:70A5BC9D-FF79-471D-9415-D6C002AC24F6@microsoft.com...[color=blue]
> Can anyone give me some good, affordable TV Tuners that work well w/ Vista
> Media Center? I would like to get one w/ a PCI interface, but I also do
> have
> a PCI Express x1 slot available. I guess USB wouldn't be out of the
> question
> either as long as the picture quality is decent. Thanks in advance,
>
> Todd[/color]

If you are interested in the Hauppauge
WinTV PVR USB2, make sure you get
the one with the 24XXX model number
because it also has support for Vista
x64.



"JW" <nospam@no.spam> wrote in message
news:uYpHnCnhHHA.1708@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...[color=blue]
> The Hauppauge USB2 PVR is a popular
> tuner with Vista.
> "Todd Marks"
> <ToddMarks@discussions.microsoft.com>
> wrote in message
> news:70A5BC9D-FF79-471D-9415-D6C002AC24F6@microsoft.com...[color=green]
>> Can anyone give me some good,
>> affordable TV Tuners that work well
>> w/ Vista
>> Media Center? I would like to get
>> one w/ a PCI interface, but I also
>> do have
>> a PCI Express x1 slot available. I
>> guess USB wouldn't be out of the
>> question
>> either as long as the picture
>> quality is decent. Thanks in
>> advance,
>>
>> Todd[/color]
>
>[/color]

The Hauppauge 1600 works fine with Vista MCE too. It has a dual
digital/analog tuner, but I don't believe you can record on one and watch on
another. Need to check at Hauppauge. If you load the Remote driver on the
CD, not the one online, the remote works with MCE too!

Wendell

"Todd Marks" wrote:
[color=blue]
> Can anyone give me some good, affordable TV Tuners that work well w/ Vista
> Media Center? I would like to get one w/ a PCI interface, but I also do have
> a PCI Express x1 slot available. I guess USB wouldn't be out of the question
> either as long as the picture quality is decent. Thanks in advance,
>
> Todd[/color]

Yes, you can watch one and record another since the two tuners appear as two
separate tuner cards to MC.
I read a post from a user awhile back that had 2 1600 and he concurrently
recorded 2 NTSC programs 2 ATSC programs while watching a 5th program
previously recorded.
"Wendell" <Wendell@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:9A45ECC3-717A-46CB-AC67-1FCAC481D034@microsoft.com...[color=blue]
> The Hauppauge 1600 works fine with Vista MCE too. It has a dual
> digital/analog tuner, but I don't believe you can record on one and watch
> on
> another. Need to check at Hauppauge. If you load the Remote driver on
> the
> CD, not the one online, the remote works with MCE too!
>
> Wendell
>
> "Todd Marks" wrote:
>[color=green]
>> Can anyone give me some good, affordable TV Tuners that work well w/
>> Vista
>> Media Center? I would like to get one w/ a PCI interface, but I also do
>> have
>> a PCI Express x1 slot available. I guess USB wouldn't be out of the
>> question
>> either as long as the picture quality is decent. Thanks in advance,
>>
>> Todd[/color][/color]

Lots of mention of the Hauppauge products. My experience with these is that
they make great hardware and dreadful software.

Are the apps and drivers any good these days?

Steve

In article <uWGJV6rhHHA.4296@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl>, Steve Thackery
says...[color=blue]
> Lots of mention of the Hauppauge products. My experience with these is that
> they make great hardware and dreadful software.
>
> Are the apps and drivers any good these days?
>[/color]
The drivers have never really been an issue..WinTV2000 is. If you use
WMC, you don't need WinTV.


--
Conor

Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright
until you hear them speak.........

> Yes, you can watch one and record another since the two tuners appear as[color=blue]
> two separate tuner cards to MC.[/color]

I have a PVR-500 and I'd like to have PIP (Picture-In-Picture) capability.
Any idea if that might be possible in a future version of Media Center? I'd
also
like to be able to switch between TV, composite and S-Video inputs easily.

Tom Lake

I don't think that any of the features you would like have as of yet been
commiteed for a future release of MC
"Tom Lake" <tlake@twcny.rr.com> wrote in message
news:2A2D126B-8BAE-4E57-977D-1726A3A3CD73@microsoft.com...[color=blue][color=green]
>> Yes, you can watch one and record another since the two tuners appear as
>> two separate tuner cards to MC.[/color]
>
> I have a PVR-500 and I'd like to have PIP (Picture-In-Picture) capability.
> Any idea if that might be possible in a future version of Media Center?
> I'd also
> like to be able to switch between TV, composite and S-Video inputs easily.
>
> Tom Lake
>[/color]

I actually use WinTV2K instead of MC on my Vista desktop even though both
work since with WinTV I don't suffer from a degradation in the quality of
the Live TV by having it encoded and decoded.

"Conor" <conor.turton******.com> wrote in message
news:MPG.2098a3bc1059a81f98a603@news.karoo.co.uk...[color=blue]
> In article <uWGJV6rhHHA.4296@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl>, Steve Thackery
> says...[color=green]
>> Lots of mention of the Hauppauge products. My experience with these is
>> that
>> they make great hardware and dreadful software.
>>
>> Are the apps and drivers any good these days?
>>[/color]
> The drivers have never really been an issue..WinTV2000 is. If you use
> WMC, you don't need WinTV.
>
>
> --
> Conor
>
> Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright
> until you hear them speak.........[/color]