Recommend a capture card ?

[Dwight]

Hello

Since I purchased a 1,7 ghz machine to replace my PII now my old ATI ISA TV-tuner is useless since the new motherboard has no ISA slots and I was wondering what TV_TUNER card would give the best quality in the price range of 0 to 100 euro (or USD)

My plan is to capture AVI from tv broadcasts and from VHS tapes and encode to DIVX and PAL SVCD/VCD.

[DOA]

The Leadtek TV2000 XP Deluxe is a popular one. I am using one right now and it's a great value. You should be able to find it for about $55-60 US.

[neonflx]

Xcapture from prolink uses the new conexant chip 10bit
http://www.prolink-usa.com/english/product/vdo-bt881p.html
It works great for me and is cheap

[Silentbob343]

I would recommend a card based on the nwere conextan chip or a philips chip. Xcapture uses the latest conextant chip but the Leadtek use the older chip. I believe Leadtek will be realising a newr version of th card.

If you looking for just capture and no TV tuner then I would suggest the Xcapture.

[joeshmoe2000]

i use the leadtek and it is great. $60 and that includes $120 worh of software i would go for it but then again that other 1 sounds nice, it is new, but leadteks setup is easy, and the thing works great.
"joe"

[Dwight]

Thanks for the suggestions.

I definetely need a TV-Tuner since it's cheaper than buying
a new tv-set

My OS is WinMe

Can all tv-tuner cards capture ..let's say 640 x 480 ?

I can't find Leadtek or such in where I live...lots of
Hauppauge, Terratec, Hercules, Ati, Pinnacle, Canopus Magic and Lifeview.

They told me at my local shop to purchase a Hercules stereo-tuner...

[joeshmoe2000]

go to www.newegg.com for the leadtek, it gets 640x480 and more. like i said $60, if you are going for a tv-tuner this is one of the best out there.