I’m looking for advice for which of the following cards offer the best quality, support, drivers etc – is possibly my best buy.
I need PCIe.
I have a long list of cards that are available in Australia and their base price:

Winfast PxTV1200 $47
Winfast PxPVR2200 $73
Winfast PxDVR3200 H, $85
Compro VideoMate Vista E650F, $90
AVerTV Hybrid Speedy PCI-E H788R $95
Compro VideoMate E650, $105
AVerTV Duo Hybrid PCI-E (A177), $106
AVerTV CaptureHD (H727) $109
AVerTV Duo Hybrid PCI-E II (A188) $109
Dvico FusionHDTV DVB-T Dual Express, $135 [image quality being a little grainy v3.4]
Compro VideoMate Vista E800F, hybrid, $156
Compro VideoMate Vista E850F, $178
Compro VideoMate Vista E900F, $187 is clunky and unintuitive, slow, and generally unpleasant

Some reviews I have already read so I have briefed the final analysis, the reviews were a bit old and drivers may well have improved since then.

My requirements are;
I have a PCIe1x lane slot
The machine was running x64, but I’m unhappy with that OS because of the general driver issues [like hitting my head against a brick wall for the sake of my CPUs] and possibly will run x64 again till I get everything of the drives after the previous mobo’s sudden death.
The machine is a dual socket dual core Opteron 2.6Ghz
Socket#0 has 2 GB DDR400 (2 sticks),
Socket#1 has 1 GB DDR400 (2 sticks)
Have an EMU 1820m
Am looking at putting an HD4770 in
Have a DVDROM

I want to capture (like all of us) the best quality from the AV input on the TV Card – composite and Y/C inputs are fine. Hardware assisted MPEG2 encoding is not necessary, but having WME see the feed is wanted .

One of my cameras is a Stardot 5MP MJPEG IP camera that has PAL (+NTSC) coming out via composite BNC, but the higher quality stuff comes out via Ethernet
0=320x240@30.0,SIF
1=528x384@30.0,DCIF
2=640x480@30.0,VGA
3=800x600@25.0,SVGA
4=1024x768@16.0,XGA
5=1280x960@30.0,SXGA fast
6=1296x960@12.0,QFULL*
7=1600x1200@25.0,UXGA
8=2560x1600@11.0,UHR-3.9
9=2560x1920@10.0,QVGA
10=2592x1944@10.0,FULL (UHR-48) [video out on = 7.5 fps, video out off = 10 fps]
11=640x368@30.0,WS640 16:9
12=800x448@30.0,WS800 16:9
13=1024x576@24.0,WS1024 16:9
14=1280x720@16.0,HD720P 16:9
15=1920x1080@25.0,HD1080P 16:9
16=2560x1440@12.8,HD1440P 16:9
17=368x480@30.0,Quarter Portrait
18=720x960@16.0,Half Portrait
19=1024x1376@30.0,Mid Portrait
20=1440x1936@16.0,Full Portrait
21=1600x720@30.0,Panoramic-1.1
22=2560x1152@16.0,Panoramic-2.8
23=688x480@30.0,NTSC Focus Mode

As you can see it doesn’t actually have a pure PAL contrast ratio preset.
Stardot have advised that to get the higher contrast rates over 10/100 I should compress @ 50% [wish I had known that before I bought – it sort of makes HDTV into SDTV – damn I could have saved my money.

But the stills do look fantastic!

Recapping
A PCIe TV card that has great analogue capture, has good working software that is intuitive, works with x64.
Oh yes, my previous card was a 550 theater based card from Visiontek, they nobbled the ATI chip so that the card would only do NTSC TV {I could force the analogue capture into PAL} so, I don’t ever want to have a nobbled card again.

Thanks
RogerP