Tv tuner card

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I've been looking for a cheap tv tuner card for about 60-80$. Any suggestions?

 

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if you happen to live in belgium, you can have mine.

otherwise, the ctx948 goes around dirt cheap (€5-10) if you can find one, and the drivers for it.

once you get a hold of the right drivers its a pretty decent card.

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http://www.amazon.com/Hauppauge-1187-WinTV-HVR-1250-Hybird-PCI-Ex1/dp/B0010DIK3U is the one I use, the Hauppauge WinTV HVR-1250. with the 3.2 software there is a game mode the removes the delay so you can hook up a playstation 1 or 2, and such and play it. 

 

This one is cheaper, don't know as much about it http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16815306023

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that would depend entirely on what bands are broadcasted on where you live

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i believe most of them can pick up multiple bands, mine does both european cable standard, and american standard.

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maybe it was because i was looking for one not long after the u.s. switched to digital but none of the cards i seen picked up everything

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I dont have much experience in TV signals, but I know theres PAL and NTSC, and my card supports both of them, i believe thats both analog tho.. europe is pretty much all analog, with one or 2 channels left open for digital information.

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I live in the US and I just want to watch tv. I no longer use my tv as a monitor since I'm doing dual 27" monitors

 

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Elgato used to have a USB thing that connected to a TV-cable on one end and your PC on the other. I can't find it on their website anymore... so maybe they discontinued it. I used one for a few years, and it worked well. You could record anything you wanted.

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i have a hauppage whatever you spell it, it's the second tv tuner i've tried, never had a good experience with them. they work yeah, but it's not great. Don't expect perfection is all i'm sayin

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This seems to be the newest version:
http://www.elgato.com/en/eyetv/eyetv-hybrid

I now realize it's above your listed budget

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I gave up on tv tuners and just bought a cheap HD DVR.  The picture quality is better, picks up all my channels and I can record without having to worry about hard drive space or performance drops on my pc...  on the rare occasions I actually see fit to record something.  I just switch from DVI to HDMI on my right monitor and I'm good to go.