Spec Me - Tuner Card

JonnyBGood · 12 Feb 2009 at 14:26

Im building a media centre and dont have any experience with dealing with Tuner cards, can anyone offer me any advice or point me towards a good tuner card that you have come across?

Got a budget of around £50.

Thanks

DrBombcrater · 12 Feb 2009 at 15:44

It helps a lot if you say what kind of tuner you need: analogue, digital terrestrial, or digital satellite. PCI, PCI-e or USB.

MumboJumbo · 12 Feb 2009 at 15:51

I use the compro E700 and it seems to work very well with vista 64bit so no driver problems. Two tuners allows me to record two programs at once and i can pause live tv etc. Came highly recomended when i bought it and i agree with them.
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=GX-011-CP&groupid=701&catid=56&subcat=169

JonnyBGood · 13 Feb 2009 at 16:08

Dave,

Someone at work uses that exact same card and has had nothing but praise for it...

Think thats problem solved!

Cheers

MumboJumbo · 13 Feb 2009 at 17:05

Tis a very good card. Just make sure you got a pci-e x1 slot in your pc which isn't convered by a gpu etc. If you do a bit of rewirign its designed to be able to turn your pc on as well but i never bothered.