TV Tuner Card?

Need some help here......
I want to add a TV tuner card to my setup. I would like to watch live tv while I'm in my PC Cave. I've got dual 22" wide screen monitors so I would like to be surfing on one and watch some tv on the other. I've been doing some research this morning on the cards and This One seems to be a good buy. I have zero experience with this stuff so any input would be appreciated. I need the interface to either be PCI Express X1 or PCI, this is going in the setup in my sig.

Now, will I need to run a different OS like Windows Media Center to take full advantage of something like this? Right now I'm dual booting XP Pro and Windows 7. I'd like to keep my XP partition and If I had to I could reinstall over the W7 partition. I remember reading something about Media Portal, is this software I can install on XP or is something that runs on Media Center OS? Thanks for any insight.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16815116036 Go with this if you can afford it, its got two tuners so you can watch and record something at the same time. A lot of other dual tuners are availiable, but none that have dual digital tuners. So if you can afford it, i would go with it.

I really apologize for thread jack , But am currently also looking for a good tv tuner card , i do not have a TV only a PC due to limited space issues , i heard their has also been problems with 64 bit vista which i have .


What i would want from the card is being able to get highest resolution possible , being able to hook it up to cable , but also just with a basic antenna , being able to record TV but not necessarily when am watching something , my pcie 1x is blocked by my Video card however


I really tried reading through the specs of tuner cards and what i would need but i get lost every time , and i dont want to just go for it as it will be my only tv source and i want it done right and not just something i have in my PC but never get to use


am willing to spend 200 $ + - to being able to watch high quality TV on my PC , whatever that includes the card and maybe anything else i will need


Any help would be appreciated thanks in advance

I dont know if this is what you are looking for, but it really is a great idea. Been doing some research on it. It supposed to be the most reliable and compatible tv tuner out there, plus it works on any computer!
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16815327005

Thanks for the reply ryfox0276!

You're not going to get too much help around here with your question CharlieCS. I would suggest a dual tuner card, they make them with a PCI interface if you can't access your PCIE slot. I ended up buying THIS Card on sale for $49.99 and it's great! I found a lot of great info at the AVS forum, much more suited for your question. You'll find everything you need over there. http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/

dylskee said:

Thanks for the reply ryfox0276!

You're not going to get too much help around here with your question CharlieCS. I would suggest a dual tuner card, they make them with a PCI interface if you can't access your PCIE slot. I ended up buying THIS Card on sale for $49.99 and it's great! I found a lot of great info at the AVS forum, much more suited for your question. You'll find everything you need over there. http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/

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LOL yea I gotta old pci single that works good but I agree a double HD-capable pcie-1x would be an ausome improvement!

dylskee said:

Thanks for the reply ryfox0276!

You're not going to get too much help around here with your question CharlieCS. I would suggest a dual tuner card, they make them with a PCI interface if you can't access your PCIE slot. I ended up buying THIS Card on sale for $49.99 and it's great! I found a lot of great info at the AVS forum, much more suited for your question. You'll find everything you need over there. http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/

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thanks i will definitely check it out , i get this is not most active section of the forum