system requirements for HD tuner card

[dmehling]

How much processing power does it take to view HD programming on a computer with an HD tuner card? Can a Pentium 4 PC handle that kind of job?

 

[lawson_jl]

Go to the manufactures webpage of the card or cards yoru looking at and see what their recommendation is.

 

[newgunner]

I've used a usb hd tuner on my Eee netbook and it works fine so i'm pretty sure a pentium 4 can handle a hd tuner card.

As an example of the requirements (from the usb hd tuner i used):

Windows XP/ XP MCE/ Vista TM / Vista TM MCE
CPU: Intel Pentium 4 2.6GHz with HT (Hyper Threading) or Equivalent AMD Processor
Intel Pentium Mobile 1.8GHz
512MB RAM or above
VGA card supports DirectX 9.0c or above
Sound Card