Vista TV Card

tntcoder · 28 Dec 2006 at 17:25

Hi,

Please can someone recommend me a TV Card that will work in windows Vista, I only need an analogue one that I can plug a standard TV ariel into. I currently have a very old happuage pci card, but there's no vista drivers for it yet, and i may as well upgrade

Cheers,
Jack

dalepearson · 28 Dec 2006 at 17:32

I know the Hauppauge 250 and 350 PVR's have Vista drivers.
Just look on the websites, most have some comment regarding Vista support.

NathanE · 28 Dec 2006 at 17:32

I think you will be waiting a while. It's very unlikely Hauppage will just be kind and release drivers for their old products. They'd sooner just release a new wave of products with big "Vista Compatible" stickers on the box

I may be wrong but this is the tactic that most hardware vendors simply can't wait to use.

From a technical standpoint, TV card drivers will need to change quite drastically to support Vista. Probably just short of a rewrite. It will be for the best though. Video streams will look fantastic on Vista. And you'll be able to drag the TV software around as much as you like and it won't appear all "laggy" leaving purple/green bits behind momentarily like it does on XP

ns400r · 28 Dec 2006 at 17:58

And you'll be able to drag the TV software around as much as you like and it won't appear all "laggy" leaving purple/green bits behind momentarily like it does on XP

What crap TV card do you own that does that in XP ?

NathanE · 28 Dec 2006 at 18:02

I don't own any TV card

I'm just saying that all current TV cards on XP use video overlays. These can be quite slow when dragging them about (maybe not visible anymore on a dual core PC).