Conexant CX23881 vs Philips SAA7134

[smoki]

I am looking at two capture cards:

Terratec Cinergy 400XE (SAA7134) and Leadtek Winfast TV2K Expert (CX23881). Afaik the Conexant has a 10bit ADC and the Philips a 9bit, nevertheless people say the image quality of the Philips is slightly better. How come?

I am planning on using it to capture from a Sat Receiver thru RFout (worse quality) or Scart (better). Which one of the two cards do you recommend?

Final output will be MPEG2 for DVD authoring or possibly MPEG4 for a standalone DVD Player with Mpeg4 support. PC is fast enough to encode in realtime (2.6C, 1GB DDR466)

Thanks for any advice.

[smoki]

bump?

Here some links...
http://productsen.terratec.net/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=209&m...rder=0&thold=0

http://www.leadtek.com/multimedia/winfast_tv2000xp_expert_1.html

[SatStorm]

There are about the same

Conexant CX23881 has better 3rd party support
Philips SAA7134 support PAL needs better (overall)

So, for the PAL users, you have a better chip (conexant) vs a PAL optimised chip (philips).
Later drivers always eliminate the difference on this, but the first impressions are always what stays in the minds of the users.

[smoki]

thx satstorm,
after reading a bit, i found out that the current Conexant drivers do not support the full 10bit capability of the Adc, but i'm sure the future ones will. So with this thought in mind i think i'm gonna settle for the Leadtek (Conexant)