WinTV

[E-bo Obi]

I see all these reviews of different usb tv tuners. None of them ever leave me with a warm fuzzy. Anyone have any experience with USB TV tuners for your PC? What model? Do/did you like it? Would you reccomend it or do you have a reccomendation?

[Jabe Adaks]

The best one I had was from ATI and its driver support sucked when I upgraded so I gave up on it.

I am not sure about the newer USB ones. I can't imagine they do a good job since pumping video over a USB can't possibly be too high of quality unless its USB 2.0 and even then I am not sure.

Jabe

[Illbleed]

Jabe's right about this. USB for video is functional but don't expect the video to be smooth. USB 2.0 will go up to 480mb per secondZ(480 million bits) plus you have to deal with transmitting a signal down a wire which is never good. It's alot better to have a tuner card that's attached to the pci bus as you won't have to deal with the potential for choppy playback. Even with DSP in an external unit, I wouldn't advise it.

ILL

[toront]

ATI All-in-Wonder Radeon Cards FTW!

[E-bo Obi]

ATI All-in-Wonder Radeon Cards FTW!

Yeah, funny thing. I had one of those before I went overseas. As a matter of fact I had a lot of shit I don't have anymore. * shrug * Its time to start restocking.

[Illbleed]

ATI All-in-Wonder Radeon Cards FTW!

I used to have one of those..I loved it. The only flip side to the ATI AIW cards are always a bit behind the most current graphics engines on the market. If this doesn't matter, you should be fine. Video cards are so damn expensive to keep updated all the time =)

ILL

[toront]

ATI All-in-Wonder Radeon Cards FTW!

I used to have one of those..I loved it. The only flip side to the ATI AIW cards are always a bit behind the most current graphics engines on the market. If this doesn't matter, you should be fine. Video cards are so damn expensive to keep updated all the time =)

ILL

Not by much. When I got my 9800 pro AIW card, the 9800 pro was the top out. Now granted, the xt was in the pipline and out shortly after, but it remained a high end card. You don't have to sacrifice too much, just be willing to pay even more extra on the high end card.