TV Tuners reviewed

[Aces170]

http://www.techreport.com/reviews/2005q2/tuner-comparo/index.x?pg=1

For a change Haupphage gets owned by ATI and Nvidia :

Surprisingly, the best image quality comes from the least expensive tuner, eVGA’s $65 NVTV. The card’s bundled NVDVD decoder also makes the card ready to run with Media Center out of the box, provided you have a DirectX 9 graphics card. That’s something the other cards lack. The NVTV does have its shortcomings. The card’s CPU utilization tends to be a little higher than the others, although not by a significant enough margin to cause concern. The driver bug that plagued our Athlon 64 test system is also a cause for concern, although the card had no issues with our Intel test platform.

[guru]

the evga card could be a real deal for $67 ~ Rs 2500 and for that u also getr hard mpeg2 encoding. now thats dvd quality video

available in India?

[Aces170]

Nope I dont think so, but am thinking of getting one