£50 TV Cards

[carrot1401]

Right, running very close to christmas and parents have agreed to buy me a new TV card in the £50 region. Been looking at overclockers Compro VideoMate DVB-T750 but was wondering what else it out there.

As for pci over pci-e, think I would rather go for PCI as I beleive my motherboard (GA-P35-DS3P (rev. 1.1) allows crossfire but disables the other 3 pci-express slots when in use, so futurewise a PCI TV card would be better.

Other than that and that it needs to work with Media Centre 2005 AND Vista Premium/Ultimate (next year ) start recomending

P.S On a side not, just read motherboard manaual and it says

The PCIE_16_1 slot supports x16; the PCIE_16_2 supports x4

What does that actually mean???

 

[gareth170]

Right, running very close to christmas and parents have agreed to buy me a new TV card in the £50 region. Been looking at overclockers Compro VideoMate DVB-T750 but was wondering what else it out there.

As for pci over pci-e, think I would rather go for PCI as I beleive my motherboard (GA-P35-DS3P (rev. 1.1) allows crossfire but disables the other 3 pci-express slots when in use, so futurewise a PCI TV card would be better.

Other than that and that it needs to work with Media Centre 2005 AND Vista Premium/Ultimate (next year ) start recomending

i would say get the Compro VideoMate DVB-T750 Digital TV Internal PCI . great for the money.

P.S On a side not, just read motherboard manaual and it says

What does that actually mean???

in crossfire mode 1 card will run at x16 and other card runs at x4..

 

[555BUK]

Nova-T 500 has been the best twin DVB card I have used. It works flawlessly with XP Media Center, Vista32 and Vista64. Also, no need to load drivers on Vista Premium and Ultimate versions.

 

[HEADRAT]

Another vote for Nova-T 500

 

[londonbairn]

Do any cards support DVD-T2, the standard they will be using for HD Freeview? I have a Nebula USB and PCI myself, but I am looking at other solutions, like dual tuner and perhaps even satellite card.

 

[sosrandom]

Do any cards support DVD-T2, the standard they will be using for HD Freeview? I have a Nebula USB and PCI myself, but I am looking at other solutions, like dual tuner and perhaps even satellite card.

They wont necessarily use DVD-T2 will it? I can see it being 2012 before they start thinking about it, If they would have started straight out of the box with HD capable freeview we wouldn't have to change again in the future. But that wouldn't be British tho would it

 

[londonbairn]

I meant to type DVB-T2! Damn subconscience..

 

[Bomag]

Do any cards support DVD-T2.

Probably, the hardware is the same (it only hast to tune to the relavent MUX) it's only the software which has to know how the data is encoded. Compro cards are marketed as working with the Aussie 1080i system.

 

[gareth170]

some/most dvb-t cards are HD ready. also ive read freeview HD would be here around 2009..

 

[carrot1401]

Nova-T 500 has been the best twin DVB card I have used. It works flawlessly with XP Media Center, Vista32 and Vista64. Also, no need to load drivers on Vista Premium and Ultimate versions.

Just had a look and looks like I'll be getting this one. Just emailing Happuage to see how long their warrenty is on the product. Thanks guys