TV tuners for MCE

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bamaboy

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which one would be better for MCE
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16815117603 sapphire

or hauppauge
1) this onhe has fm tuner, but no remote, but i can buy a remote for 30$
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16815116620
2) has remote but no fm tuner
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16815116631

or what others work GOOD with MCE

on the sapphire, some people in the review say that the software sucks somje say it sucks wiht MCE some say its good
 
None of the links work(is newegg down???) But I have a WinTV and it's very nice. If you just want to view TV, what you're finding would probably be fine. However, if you want really good quality and possibly GOOD PVR features(IE rewind and pausing live TV) you'd want something like the WinTV PVR 150. They go for around $60-80, but DEFINETLY worth it, espcially if you care to make DVDs. There's no converting required ;)

Oh, and just for you know, if the card says it has realtime encoding, it doesn't! At least not for one that's under say 50-60. Many cheap ones use software encoding so it requires MUCH more processing power. My Athlon 4000 wasn't able to encode much of anything real-time when I was using a cheap capture card...

And as for MCE, I don't think it'd really matter. There is a WinTV PVR made for MCE, but most any SHOULD work.
 
ckfordy said:
links dont work says page cannot be displayed. i cant even go to the home page site must be down.
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might be something on the east coast, I live in California and the newegg links works just fine.
 
the 2 hauppauge win tv ones are the pvr 150s

they both do hardware encoding not software 62$

one has a fm and no remote one has a remote but no fm 90$
 
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