Which TV tuner for HTPC?

hibeesmad · 26 Jan 2009 at 00:49

What is the best TV tuner for around £30. I will go higher if recommend.

It will be used with Vista Media Centre.

Will the picture quality be as good or better than the internal freeview on a Samsung LE32R87 LCD.

Thanks.

Katoom · 26 Jan 2009 at 06:20

Get a dual tuner. You'll soon get peeved at not being able to record one channel while watching another.
I have the Compro E700, works very well with vista.

hibeesmad · 26 Jan 2009 at 12:57

Katoom said:
Get a dual tuner. You'll soon get peeved at not being able to record one channel while watching another.
I have the Compro E700, works very well with vista.

Whats the picture quality like? How does it compare to your internal freeview on your LCD?

Thanks,

Johnny.

wolvers · 26 Jan 2009 at 15:20

hibeesmad said:
Whats the picture quality like? How does it compare to your internal freeview on your LCD?

If your using a GPU from the last couple of years then it should be a fair bit better.

hibeesmad · 26 Jan 2009 at 16:17

wolvers69 said:
If your using a GPU from the last couple of years then it should be a fair bit better.

It will be used with an ASUS P5QL-CM motherboard with on-board HDMI.

What TV tuner would you recommend?

Katoom · 26 Jan 2009 at 19:15

hibeesmad said:
Whats the picture quality like? How does it compare to your internal freeview on your LCD?

Thanks,

Johnny.

I would have to say the internal freeview is slightly better, but I think this is more to do with the settings on my ATI 3650 (looks like there is a little to much processing going on) but I can only notice it up to 1m, not from where I sit.

I'm using it with a plasma so I don't know how it will look with your LCD.