Video/audio in

[striker9]

I have cable tv that comes through some coaxial cable. For best quality would it be better to have the coax go directly to the card or hook the card up to my VCR using S-Video connection or composite?

[redwudz]

I'm assuming you are talking about a video capture card in your computer? Then it depends on the card. Some video cards have a good tuner, some don't. Try it both ways.

The advantage of the tuner card is you can select channels from the PC. If you use the VCR, you would need to use it for channel selection. If you don't have S-Video out from your VCR, composite may be worse than the tuner in the card. Not really able to answer this.

[striker9]

It's a Hauppauge PVR 250. How is the tuner in that?