Best TV Tuner Card

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JoeRinaldi

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I need to plugin my TV in the computer and record what im watching. I have an onbuilt graphics card 128mb gforce nvidia. Im looking to record movies and shows to my computer good quality.. TV Tuner card when I can plug the Video OUT cable in, instead of plugging it to my tv so I can watch TV on my computer.. Should have RCA cable sockets (red,white,yellow)

Thanks..

Anyone give me some more in dept detail about this please.
 
heyman421 said:
doesn't really matter

just make sure it has philips tuners and not samsung (or generic for that matter)
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Um...no... Sure, a Philips tuner might be better, but unless you have an onboard encoder, the capture quality is only going to be sub-par. I use a WinTV PVR-150, and I hear of some Avermedia device that's basically identical. The quality may not look perfect on the screen, but going from VHS to DVD, there's practically no quality loss.
 
onboard encoding makes 0 difference in quality.

smaller captures? sure

but better quality, no.

if anything, realtime encoding is a lot more lossy than a software encoding program, which can make multiple passes to ensure the least amount of salvageable data is being tossed away, where a realtime encoding chip needlessly throws away lots of extra data, because it has no way of knowing for certain what the bitrate is going to be post-encoding.
 
Not true. I've used many different cards and none could keep a decent frame rate at full TV resolutions unless I dropped the quality a fair bit. Why do you think even the high-end stuff like DV-REX and DV-Storm have their own onboard encoders?

And typically there's no reason to do much post-encoding with onboard encoders. Sure, if you're really going to edit the video you'll want to use uncompressed or very low compression. But for the normal user, especially if it's to be a PVR, this is not practical.
 
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