Tv Tuner Cards

opinionated

Hello.
I am thinking of getting a tv tuner card for my pc. Any suggestions? I want to be able to watch tv and play my ps2 through it.
Thanks.

Karoma

What ports does your machine have: Do you have USB 2, firewire..? (for external)
or do you have a PCI slot free(Internal)?
(Also, Do you have digital TV or analog..? )

have a look on http://www.hauppauge.com/

crowej

there is no point in getting a tv tuner to play ps2 through as on every tuner there is about a 2 second delay.

opinionated

Karoma wrote:

What ports does your machine have: Do you have USB 2, firewire..? (for external)
or do you have a PCI slot free(Internal)?
(Also, Do you have digital TV or analog..? )

have a look on http://www.hauppauge.com/

My pc has USb2 and firewire. I have analogue tv. How come there is a 2 second delay?

Tom Dunne

It takes time for the signal to be converted into a formt the pc can handle.

CyberGhost

I thought there was a delay only with the PVR tv tuner cards?

Tom Dunne

I recall having a PCI tuner card some time back (probably 2 years) and afair, there was a delay. I could be corrected on this.

I currently have a USB2 PVR and there is a delay.

opinionated

So what are their good points?

opinionated

crowej wrote:

there is no point in getting a tv tuner to play ps2 through as on every tuner there is about a 2 second delay.

Okay, so I finally got the tv tuner card yesterday...yes I know that it is nearly a year...I got this one off komplett: "AVerMedia A16A Hybrid + FM PCI, Analog v-Tuner & DVB-T(Digital-TV)"

It works brilliantly with the ps2(hence why I had the quote)(no delay), and the picture was good - bad reception here, but today I got an aerial extension kit because the tv point is in another room and the tv picture has got all ****ty. This is the extension kit I got http://www.argos.ie/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/ProductDisplay?storeId=30001&langId=-1&catalogId=10151&productId=658648&clickfrom=name

What's wrong and how can I fix it?

8T8

You might have just gotten lucky the delay in the signal is definitely there for some cards but yours perhaps isn't affected through better hardware/drivers whatever.

If you want better picture quality use DScaler v4 as the viewing software or get the s-video PS2 cable (PS3 one will also work when it is available).

As for the TV signal you say you have bad reception to begin with so I dunno maybe try asking in the Terrestrial TV forum on getting better reception.

CyberGhost

I bought an Avermedia PCMCIA card for my laptop, and had to replace it twice cause it went bad, the reception would suddenly go bad and there was no way to fix it, finally I returned it for a refund, I'm not sure about PCI but there is something messed up with Avermedia PCMCIA card tv reception chips.

Ghost Train

sounds like you've the power of the signal getting to your original tv has dropped with the addition of a second tv, a better quality splitter or a distribution amplifier would probably help