I ordered some parts and ideas for a TV Tuner

[waynejkruse10]

I made a thread a while ago about buying some new stuff for a HTPC, i finally ordered it today.

I ordered a CPU and Motherboard to replace my current Athlon XP 2500+ and Asus A7N8X-X

I ordered a Sempron Palermo 2800+ (64bit, SSE2, SSE3, 256kb, Socket 754) and an Asus K8N-E Pro

The old Athlon XP + motherboard will be put into my HTPC. So now i need ideas for a Digital TV tuner. I need a TV tuner that is Digital and Analog, regular PCI, and not really expensive. I would like it to be Mythtv compatible, if it isnt i might need to use Windows MCE. It needs to be able to run well on this system: Athlon XP 2500+, 512mb Ram, 9200se with S-VIDEO out to a TV.

Wayne

 

[The_Tobes99]

would it bother you heaps if you used MCE? as ive been lloking through the one that i can see clearly works with mythtv is this http://www.nintek.com.au/x/scripts/prodView.asp?idproduct=1865
but it costs $180 which is steep

 

[Nitestick]

it's hard to find a tuner card that supports both analogue and digital. i think avermedia had a card at a decent price that offered that though. i'll have a look and see if i can find the model

edit: you have got to love nintek
http://www.nintek.com.au/x/scripts/prodView.asp?idproduct=2582
thats the card i was talking about and at $129 thats pretty good . personally i like winfast tuners, i used to have the DTV-1000 but thats about $150 au.

 

[waynejkruse10]

but it costs $180 which is steep

Yeah, looking around $100, might buy a second hand one.

Does any of you have any experience with these tuners?

it's hard to find a tuner card that supports both analogue and digital. i think avermedia had a card at a decent price that offered that though. i'll have a look and see if i can find the model

You sure?

You would think that if it supports digital that it will be backwards compatible to analogue.

 

[Nitestick]

no if it supports digital it doesn't neccessarily support analogue, it has to be a hybrid card. the one i posted is compatable

 

[waynejkruse10]

that does look good, ill look up some reviews on it.

I bought my CPU off Nintek.

Note to all: All the Nintek Sempron 2800+ have 64 bit, SSE2, SSE3 (yay macosx)