Recommended TV Tuner Capture Card

[Danny Pansters]

On Monday 17 October 2005 03:00, ross wrote:
> I'm looking for a very basic TV tuner for my machine. I don't have a tv
> right now and I want something I can hook my VCR into. I'm looking to
> spend the least amount of money so old hardware gotten off e-bay is the
> idea. Any recomendations?

I'd recommend the good old Miro PC TV family. Bt848 or 878. Also widely used, 
at least in Europe, are the Hauppauge WinTV cards but they are of somewhat 
lesser quality IMHO (soldering not very neat, etc. One of these actually 
burned out on me once with some of the circuitry getting completely melted). 

In any event, the tuner unit will get warm/hot so put it in a slot where it 
has some "breathing" space. Not next to your graphics card for example.

HTH,

Dan