RE: Vista compatible tuner and possibly HD

Stay away from the ATI tuners. I've got a TV Wonder 650 that has never
worked adequately. Look toward the Mfrs that specialize... Hauppage is a
good TV card vendor.

"Joel WZ" wrote:

> I am preparing to upgrade my XP MCE box to Vista. I want to replace my
> tuner card and can't find anything that shows what cards are compatible.
> Also, if I am changing tuners, are there decent HD tuner cards that allow
> access to an HD Cable box?
>
> Any help or advice would be greately appreciated.
>
> --
> Joel WZ
> ---------------------------------------------------------
>
>
>

There are several HD tuner cards and USB HD tuner adapters that accept
coax cable inputs, however, several HD cable channels are scrambled
(my cable provider scrambles everything except re-broadcasts of over
the air channels and a few very basic cable channels). What kind of
HD output does your HD cable box have? Mine has component outputs,
and I have not found any pc tuner card/video capture card that accepts
HD component video inputs. Also, I believe that future cable boxes will
have HDMI outputs, and again I have found no cards with HDMI
inputs.

DCR


| > I am preparing to upgrade my XP MCE box to Vista. I want to replace my
| > tuner card and can't find anything that shows what cards are compatible.
| > Also, if I am changing tuners, are there decent HD tuner cards that allow
| > access to an HD Cable box?
| >
| > Any help or advice would be greately appreciated.
| >
| > --
| > Joel WZ
| > ---------------------------------------------------------
| >
| >
| >

Go to Dvico website, they have nice tv tuners they are little bit expensive,
but they work like charm.
"DCR" <dcr@nyc.rr.com> wrote in message
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> There are several HD tuner cards and USB HD tuner adapters that accept
> coax cable inputs, however, several HD cable channels are scrambled
> (my cable provider scrambles everything except re-broadcasts of over
> the air channels and a few very basic cable channels). What kind of
> HD output does your HD cable box have? Mine has component outputs,
> and I have not found any pc tuner card/video capture card that accepts
> HD component video inputs. Also, I believe that future cable boxes will
> have HDMI outputs, and again I have found no cards with HDMI
> inputs.
>
> DCR
>
>
> | > I am preparing to upgrade my XP MCE box to Vista. I want to replace
> my
> | > tuner card and can't find anything that shows what cards are
> compatible.
> | > Also, if I am changing tuners, are there decent HD tuner cards that
> allow
> | > access to an HD Cable box?
> | >
> | > Any help or advice would be greately appreciated.
> | >
> | > --
> | > Joel WZ
> | > ---------------------------------------------------------
> | >
> | >
> | >
>
>

Their products have only coax and AV inputs.
No HD component or HDMI inputs.


"Killallspammers" <killallspammers@anonimousdiscusion> wrote in message
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| Go to Dvico website, they have nice tv tuners they are little bit expensive,
| but they work like charm.
| "DCR" <dcr@nyc.rr.com> wrote in message
| news:es9rnhhJHHA.3264@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...
| > There are several HD tuner cards and USB HD tuner adapters that accept
| > coax cable inputs, however, several HD cable channels are scrambled
| > (my cable provider scrambles everything except re-broadcasts of over
| > the air channels and a few very basic cable channels). What kind of
| > HD output does your HD cable box have? Mine has component outputs,
| > and I have not found any pc tuner card/video capture card that accepts
| > HD component video inputs. Also, I believe that future cable boxes will
| > have HDMI outputs, and again I have found no cards with HDMI
| > inputs.
| >
| > DCR
| >
| >
| > | > I am preparing to upgrade my XP MCE box to Vista. I want to replace
| > my
| > | > tuner card and can't find anything that shows what cards are
| > compatible.
| > | > Also, if I am changing tuners, are there decent HD tuner cards that
| > allow
| > | > access to an HD Cable box?
| > | >
| > | > Any help or advice would be greately appreciated.
| > | >
| > | > --
| > | > Joel WZ
| > | > ---------------------------------------------------------
| > | >
| > | >
| > | >
| >
| >
|

There are some video capture cards that will capture component but only at
480i resolution and they require dual core high speed CPUs to do it in
software.
The bandwidth required to capture decoded 720p or 1080i HD resolution video
approaches 2Gb/sec or 15GB per minute and you would need a card that would
encode the input using hardware into compressed MPEG2 or other compressed
format in real time in order to be able the handle the input into the PC
itself.
"DCR" <dcr@nyc.rr.com> wrote in message
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> Their products have only coax and AV inputs.
> No HD component or HDMI inputs.
>
>
> "Killallspammers" <killallspammers@anonimousdiscusion> wrote in message
> news:%23J$l$i8JHHA.1280@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...
> | Go to Dvico website, they have nice tv tuners they are little bit
> expensive,
> | but they work like charm.
> | "DCR" <dcr@nyc.rr.com> wrote in message
> | news:es9rnhhJHHA.3264@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...
> | > There are several HD tuner cards and USB HD tuner adapters that accept
> | > coax cable inputs, however, several HD cable channels are scrambled
> | > (my cable provider scrambles everything except re-broadcasts of over
> | > the air channels and a few very basic cable channels). What kind of
> | > HD output does your HD cable box have? Mine has component outputs,
> | > and I have not found any pc tuner card/video capture card that accepts
> | > HD component video inputs. Also, I believe that future cable boxes
> will
> | > have HDMI outputs, and again I have found no cards with HDMI
> | > inputs.
> | >
> | > DCR
> | >
> | >
> | > | > I am preparing to upgrade my XP MCE box to Vista. I want to
> replace
> | > my
> | > | > tuner card and can't find anything that shows what cards are
> | > compatible.
> | > | > Also, if I am changing tuners, are there decent HD tuner cards
> that
> | > allow
> | > | > access to an HD Cable box?
> | > | >
> | > | > Any help or advice would be greately appreciated.
> | > | >
> | > | > --
> | > | > Joel WZ
> | > | > ---------------------------------------------------------
> | > | >
> | > | >
> | > | >
> | >
> | >
> |
>
>