Best TV Tuner card for capturing TV Shows off TV

[macgvyer]

What is the best TV Tuner card to use to capture TV from my computer?Should the TV Tuner capture Mpeg1 2 and 4?
I would like to capture tv shows and burn them to dvd.

please help
Corey

[lordsmurf]

I would suggest looking at an ATI All In Wonder card.

[andkiich]

I've had my best success with an ATI AIW 7500 Radeon.
Can capture MPEG2 and uncompressed AVI up to 720x480 with no dropped frames.

[Xtasy2002]

Get a Hauppauge WinTV PVR-250. It's the best card out there for this price range, captures directly to Mpeg2 and you can burn the results to DVD without re-encoding.

[hwoodwar]

Macgvyer:

According to the database here at DVDRHelp, there are only three capture cards that capture realtime to MPEG1,2,4. See: https://www.videohelp.com/capturecards.php?CaptureCard=&mpeg1=1&mpeg2=1&mpeg4=1&searchco...&Search=Search

I suggest you settle for MPEG-2, or like many of us do capture to AVI and convert. At any rate you can do many different kinds of searches and read user's comments and evaluations here: https://www.videohelp.com/capturecards

[Barnabas]

I 2nd the Haupppauge. With some tweaks here and there, it's tough to beat, even by MUCH more costly cards. The Hauppauge PVR-250 does hardware encoding of both video and audio.

[paulw]

If your going to capture to MPEG2 I suggest you look at a card or box that has hardware encode rather that software encode.