Recomend me an TV Tuner card please.

Chris19 · 26 Feb 2006 at 02:31

Basicly im after one that offers freeview and normal TV an remote would be good but not needed.

Any help would be great.

Energize · 26 Feb 2006 at 07:05

Compro VideoMate dvb-t 200, cheap and comes with a remote. Ive got 2 in my media center. It doesnt have an fm radio reciever built in though.

BurningHorizons · 26 Feb 2006 at 10:39

Go for the Compro VideoMate DVB-T300 Digital & Analog TV Internal PCI - Retail (GX-001-CP) not the T-200 which is only Digital.

Energize · 27 Feb 2006 at 04:29

Why spend the extra money when normal tv is on freeview?

Drefsab · 27 Feb 2006 at 13:26

Because you never know when you might want to connect an analog video source

Energize · 27 Feb 2006 at 15:56

The dvb-t200 has svideo and composite inputs.

MNuTz · 27 Feb 2006 at 16:10

Ive lots of good stuff about the Leadtek WinFast DTV1000T.

Does everything you want and comes with a remote. You can pick it up for around £44 inc VAT!

BurningHorizons · 27 Feb 2006 at 18:00

Energize said:
Why spend the extra money when normal tv is on freeview?

In certain areas freeview can have a dodgy signal when analogue is perfectly fine.

Vegeta · 27 Feb 2006 at 18:11

Analogue has 5 channels compared to freeviews 30+, I doubt hes buying the card to watch analogue, get the dvbt200 mate no point in wasting money.
But since you want normal tv (dont know why you get those channels in freeview) then dvbt300 is for you, you get a remote also.

Chris19 · 27 Feb 2006 at 18:26

Thanks for the replies, i wasnt thinking when made the post forgot that normal tv was on freeveiw.

Energize · 27 Feb 2006 at 19:31

Vegeta said:
Analogue has 5 channels compared to freeviews 30+, I doubt hes buying the card to watch analogue, get the dvbt200 mate no point in wasting money.
But since you want normal tv (dont know why you get those channels in freeview) then dvbt300 is for you, you get a remote also.

You get those channels with freeview so you have them in digital mpeg2 format. In a few years they're going to stop analogue tv broadcasting and switch to digital which is much better.

Amp34 · 27 Feb 2006 at 19:40

Energize said:
You get those channels with freeview so you have them in digital mpeg2 format. In a few years they're going to stop analogue tv broadcasting and switch to digital which is much better.

I dunno, a good analogue signal is miles better than most digital signals, especially where water is involved (the compression to digital makes it really blocky). Although to get the signal quality you would have to be sat almost ontop of the trsansmitter.

Energize · 27 Feb 2006 at 21:01

Water isnt blocky if the bitrate is high enough, I certainly havent noticed blocky water when watching tv.

Trip Hazard · 27 Feb 2006 at 23:02

Got a quick question for the T200/T300 owners: can you manually tune or is it auto-tuning only?
Probably sounds like a silly question but I had an all in wonder card that couldn't be manually tuned (didn't find out until lafter I bought it) and it irked me a just little.

Energize · 28 Feb 2006 at 00:00

Yes you can use manual tuning.