I wish to buy a good TV tuner card but was adviced to go for one in-built with a graphics card for better resolution. Is it true that a T.V tuner card will not have good resolution all by itself. Please advice.
I have a P-3 800 Mhz, intel 810E mobo,256 Mb RAM, 20 GB HDD.
i dont believe its true....
i used to have a 5700LE personal cinema - great TV signal, just a shame the forceware software has too many bugs/niggles etc in it - and the gfx was underpowered.
upgraded gfx card to 6600GT and got a nebula freeview PCI card - which looks even better than the 5700LE
the moral - the TV reception will be as good its made, not due to whether its incorperated into to gfx card or not
(pls anyone correct me if im wrong)
The Karl Pilkington of Hexus
actually i believe stand alone tv tuners are better. since they are specially designed to be just that tv tuners, when you buy a gfx card and tv tuners they cut corners to amke the price better. a good stand alone tv tuner costs 40-200 dollras depending if u want hd tv, special features etc...
I agree. Where else would I be able to have a PCI-E based 6800GT coupled with a Freeview tuner so I can watch BBC3 when not playing WoW or playing CS. You will also get more functionality from a seperate TV card.Originally Posted by ice 73
plus you can overclock your card more since the tv tuner blocks heat diposistion.
Dissipation?
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yeh that
anybody gona fix that "cum" in the titel?
Generaly I find the all in wonder series to be great! I sujest you look into them sa y a 9600 AIW...
What's to fix? Check a dictionaryanybody gona fix that "cum" in the titel?
'gona', 'titel' indeed.
teh aiw series is good but when i had my 9700 aiw teh video input was very fuzzy, i dont know about the latest aiw series but the 9700 wasnt good. its not at all bad but for shelling out 400+ dollars (usa) youd expect a clearer image. video soap does help but you cnat use it one live t.v. after the grainy images of my 9700 aiw i traded it in for a regular 9700 :-)
O.K, say I am going to buy a T.V tuner card only, then what are the feature or specs to look out for. How are the Pinnacle and Pixelview cards. I am seeing them a lot in the market nowadays.
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From what I can gather, there is a mighty piece of technology coming into this market space VERY soon
Rumour has it that this new technology will be using a very long ladder to 'up the performance bar'
With any luck, HEXUS Labs will be spilling the Beanz any day now
<All clear: Lower spin defences>
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"X800GT... snap it up while you still can"
HEXUS
......................................August 2005
Pick up a second hand Hercules 9800SE AIW for ~£60 and softmod it to a full 9800 pro!
I've had mine for over a year and it ******* rocks.
Unless they've upgraded it mightily in the last few months, the Pinnacle software is balls beyond belief... They just don't seem to care about it!
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