MPEG2 TV Tuner Round-Up

Filed in archive DIY on April 13, 2005

If you're the type that prefers to build your own media center, you know you've got to start with the right TV tuner card. The Tech Report has a nice article comparing 3 TV tuner cards:

• ATI TV Wonder Elite


• eVGA NVTV


• Hauppauge PVR-150MCE l.p.

The article states:

PCs ARE SLOWLY creeping into every room of the house, particularly the living room, where home-theater PCs (HTPCs) have become popular among enthusiasts seeking to integrate multiple audiovisual devices into a single system. Personal video recording (PVR) features have also become an increasingly popular feature for HTPCs, a trend that has not gone unnoticed. Microsoft recently eased licensing restrictions on its Windows XP Media Center Edition operating system to allow any system builder to purchase the OS. However, Media Center Edition still has strict video requirements. To take full advantage of MCE's features, a system requires a TV tuner with hardware MPEG2 encoding and a directx 9-compatible graphics card

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