Recommend me a good tv card program

I have a haupauge tv card, but the software that comes with it leaves a lot fo be desired,, is there any other program i could use that works correctly with wide screen monitors ??

ha, that is actually some of the better software. You looking for freeware or payware?

doesnt matter, would pay a few bucks for quality

BeyondTV, SageTV both are good

I use ATi TV Wonder Ve but using a generic btb878 driver and uVCR for capture. I've gotten far better result than I ever did using ATi driver and software. You may get a better answer about your video capture card or suggestion for new one over at www.videohelp.com

I really like beyond tv. I haven't been able to buy it, but the trial was great. If you can afford it, go for it.

OK beyond tv looks good and all, but i'm having some problems

i have the cable split to my tv and my computer from 1 box, when i have them both on they are totally in sync (with the bundled software)

but with this program the video is 3 seconds behind the audio which is DEVESTATING

I use Beyond TV rather extensively. if you are watching TV from your Television and trying to get the sound from the computer, it will be off as much as 3 seconds. It has some sort of built in delay for the Live TV recording.

thats a useless feature to me, i need it to be in sync --- i was able to keep it in sync and record tv (and play it later not resume like tivo) without this delay with the bundled software, i'd just stay with that but it doesnt utlize my widescreen lcd

Make sure that you have the correct inputs selected in beyond tv. It may be recording off of a different input that doesn't actually cary the tv sound. As for the delay itself, I think beyond tv should let you turn off time shifting, which is why the delay is there- it is constantly recording so that you can pause, rewind and ff just like a tivo.

Btw- what do you mean by "it doesn't utilize my widescreen lcd?" If the resolution is the problem, its not going to be fixed in any way, and if the aspect ratio is the problem, the sofware can't help it either, unless it would know where to crop the picture to get taht ratio, or it stretched the picture. Its still a normal tv signal coming into the computer, remember. It may actually look worse than on a normal tv because of the higher quality dispay. It shows all defects.