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What You Need to Know Before You Buy an HDTV Tuner
Anywhere you may come across a high definition television set you will probably find HDTV tuners for sell. Learn what are they and why you may not need one.
If you are subscribed to digital cable, Dish Network, Direct TV or any of those services you don't need a tuner. In these cases contact your service provider and inform yourself directly with them. This step is very important, given the fact that most of the time these companies use encryptions on their signals to stop service theft. These encryptions make any tuner or box that you purchase somewhere else incapable to decode their service. If your High Definition television set has built in tuner you do not need an external tuner. Look for specifications on the television set's manual for anything that says built in tuner or integrated tuner. In this case you saved yourself some money. You may not need a tuner either if you plan to use your high definition television set for the sole purpose of playing video games, watching Blu-Ray discs, HD-DVDs or any recorded media.
At this point you may be asking yourself this question. Then, who needs an HDTV tuner? You need a tuner if you like to watch local on air broadcasts in high definition that are unavailable in any of the paid television services, if any, that you are currently subscribed. You may also consider a tuner if your digital cable company offers unencrypted signals and their receiver is relatively expensive, a rare case indeed considering the fact that most of them provide you with one upon subscribing. Note that in this case you have to inform yourself if the service is transmitted using QAM signals, the type of modulation that is used by some digital cable providers to transmit signals through cable. This type of modulation is decoded by most tuners. Again, it is very important to make sure that the signal is in fact unencrypted before buying a tuner just for watching digital cable. You may still be better off with the decoder recommended by your service provider.
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Which HDTV Tuner card is best?
I'm looking around at various hdtv tuner cards, and I've found several that look good.
1.FusionHDTV5
2.DTA-150
3. POWERCOLOR T55E-P03
4. HDTV Wonder
Which should I go with? And does it matter if I have a PCI-E slot? Do I need a PCI-E tuner card?
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What is the best HDTV tuner card to get for my computer? Or should I wait till something newer comes out soon?
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HDTV Tuner Card?
I would like to use my PC as a PVR. I am basically looking for something that can replace a regular DVR and record HD shows, and hopefully, it'll be compatible when I buy a new PC a year from now and still usuful even IF HD capture over the cable becomes possible... (too much to ask??)
Having said that, which TV tuner is best for me?
I am consiering Macro Image MDP-130 MyHD PCI HDTV Tuner Card, DIVCO Fusion HDTV Card or ATI TV Wonder 650 at this point. What are the pros and cons of these cards? (I read some reviews but don't really understand abbreviations etc.) and do you have any other suggestions?
I live in a big city with many skycrapers. Is it NOT a good idea to get something that comes with an indoor antenna?
BTW, my PC is a year old Dell Dimension E510 with P4 processor. I would like TS, AVI, and/or MPEG2 output and prefer either a USB port or PCI slot to a Firewire port. I don't play games at all. Lastly, easy installation is a MUST. ;D ;D
Thank you!
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