Which tuner card to buy?

[johnwayne]

new to all of this and was wondering if i should go with the ati tv wonder or the wintv go by Hauppauge...and how is the quality of the captures with these cards?

thx for any advice

[Beavis]

The actual hardware is basically the same but the Hauppage software and drivers are much better. You can get some nice captures with these cards- just remember that with the WinTV GO you can't capture in stereo from the built-in tuner. But if you're running the signal through a VCR, etc. first then into the card's composite input you can.

[Geno]

I was kinda dissapointed on the AIW RADEON 32mb card, and the problem with the dropped frames, and I heard Win98 can't physically allocated 64mb of ram at a time and the AIW was based on software rendering it was kinda hard just to use 64mb of ram at a time. I was thinking of switching back to win2k but getting a separate tuner card so I can hook up to my VCR and see if I can do 20,000 k/s without dropping any god damn frames, and the drivers for it are atleast decent enough that the damn software won't freeze on simple commands, I heard there were some good generic cards that didn't drop frames for 15 dollars if you can point me out to good tuner cards that are good to capture from VCR analog input at 720x480 res without dropping frames then that'll be ideal for my needs.

[patrickm]

if you really want a tuner card, get an ATI AIW 128 Pro 32M AGP. it does great realtime SVCD and high-bitrate (though VCD is just too much to do well in realtime via software). it's also got the tuner and composite/s-video output too. and it's only about $99, since everyone is stocking radeons only now.