Hello,
I want to get a tv tuner for my computer. I have searched and searched for reviews on tv tuners, and I have narrowed down my decision to the Phoebe TV Master and the Pinnacle TV PCI card. I would like to know which card, of all of the tv tuners out there, is the best? Please keep in mind that I will NOT be doing any recording with my card. i simply want my card to watch tv while i surf the web and do my work. To me, the only two important factors are picture quality of live tv and the stability of the drivers/software. Excellent Live tv picture qualilty is certainly the most important feature to me. If anyone has any feedback, please post their thoughts here. Thanks!!
Which vid card do you plan to use in conjunction with it???
NVIDIA cards don't like TV tuner cards.
Otherwise, the Phoebe is the better of the two. I have it and it works great on my Radeon and Savage4. It just doesn't want to work "well" with my Geforce2MX. It works if you open the application a hundred times, but this was never the case with the other vid cards. The Phoebe has great, intuitive software, a remote control, stereo sound, a plethora of inputs, and a mere $39 pricetag from www.micropro.com
Yes, I have heard of the ATI but i have heard that its drivers are crap for Win 2000 and i have also heard that the picture qualitly is not the greatest... Thats just what ive been told though. Never had the chance to actually decide for myself.
Originally posted by K6-III: Which vid card do you plan to use in conjunction with it???
NVIDIA cards don't like TV tuner cards.
Otherwise, the Phoebe is the better of the two. I have it and it works great on my Radeon and Savage4. It just doesn't want to work "well" with my Geforce2MX. It works if you open the application a hundred times, but this was never the case with the other vid cards. The Phoebe has great, intuitive software, a remote control, stereo sound, a plethora of inputs, and a mere $39 pricetag from www.micropro.com
Well i have a crappy ati card now but I was thinking of getting a GE Force 3. Will the phoebe work with a GEF 3 card?
I've only had the chance to test it under my MX, but I hear the problem is widespread with all of the Geforce series cards, but I can't say if it will apply to the Geforce3, seeing as it is a new chip. I would expect it to work. BTW, stay away from the ATI if at all possible. The drivers suck big time!!!! The Pheobe is a better card. They all use the BT848/BT878 chipsets anyway, except MATROX, so the cards are about the same. It is the price/features/performance/drivers that make or break such a card.
I couldn't get my ATI card to work with Geforce
As far as the ATI card itself I am very happy with it condsidering it is a 1997 4MB card.
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Sony "VAIO" with 800 Mhz AMD 128MB Ram (upgraded from 233MHZ pentium II)
MSI K7T Pro 2-A mobo, running CPU fan @ 5v (still under 50c)
17" Trinitron, ATI video capture card
HP 8100 CDRW, Zip100, Maxtor 20GB ATA100 HD
Creative Live!Sound card, HP 932c printer
Win ME.
Linux Ubuntu, 4850e, 2GB Ram, ASUS m3n78-vm, 19" Dell CRT Flat Screen, NEC 1300a DVD burner.
My brooktree based tv card works well w/ my ge force card in win2k . Look at ones by brook tree. I got one using the standard brooktree under teh name of tview
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my specs:
AMD T-BIRD 750MHz
256MB RAM
IBM 46 GB 7200 RPM
SAMSUNG 2GB
SONY CD ROM 48X
PANASONIC 8X4X32
REALTEK 10/100 ETHERNET
SOUND BLASTER LIVE VALUE
Leadtek GF2 Pro
300W SUPPLY
CAMBRIDGE FPS 1000
17 " GEMSTAR
PROMISE TECHNOLOGY ULTRA 66 CARD
ABIT KT7
WINDOWS 2000 W/ SP 1
Ok....back from testing under win2k and all I can say is WOW!!!! I've never seen it perform this well under any video card. It must just be the kick *** win2k drivers and the wonderful OS itself(compared with 9x). Again, it is a ton faster with SP2. You want SP2, despite its 102mb size.
Yeah I did notice things a little snappier w/ sp2. Now this is how an Operating System is supposed to be supported. through constant service pack updates. In the case of linux it is kernel updates. But i mean, look at the 9x line. it's been through massive "service packs" but not offered much improvement as far as reliability goes
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my specs:
AMD T-BIRD 750MHz
256MB RAM
IBM 46 GB 7200 RPM
SAMSUNG 2GB
SONY CD ROM 48X
PANASONIC 8X4X32
REALTEK 10/100 ETHERNET
SOUND BLASTER LIVE VALUE
Leadtek GF2 Pro
300W SUPPLY
CAMBRIDGE FPS 1000
17 " GEMSTAR
PROMISE TECHNOLOGY ULTRA 66 CARD
ABIT KT7
WINDOWS 2000 W/ SP 1
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