NewEgg.com has the Hauppauge WinTV-HVR-2250 Dual TV Tuner 1229 for $110 with free shipping. This dual tuner card from Hauppauge lets you watch and record two different TV channels, and it doesn't matter if they're digital or analog.
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Hauppauge WinTV-HVR-22 was the editors choice in June of 2008
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2320616,00.asp
You think we could use two of these and record 4 channels at once?
#2 if you can get it to not crash.. I had this for about two weeks.. couldn't get it to work for more than a few minutes at a time, neither under it's own software nor WMC. A call to Hauppauge helped a little but it still crashed way too much for me to want to keep it.
This was on Vista 64-bit, maybe that had something to do with it.
I kind of want this card. If only I didn't tell myself I need to stop thinking about HTPCs...
Usually works decently well but I haven't found a really good set-up that tunes with really good quality and has a good interface for HTPC using. I would use this if I was in college and used my PC as my primary TV watching device.
does it support QAM?
Why not just get an hdhomerun box instead for that price? Then you can use the dual tuners from any machine on the network...
qam and clear qam cept media center doesn't support it.
had mine for 2 months works great!
This plus the new Beyond TV 4.9 upgrade sounds like a great idea. The BTV upgrade now allows recording of unencrypted QAM channels from cable, which I have already tried out and LOVE.
Ive been through a couple Hauppauge cards and been happy with both.. Ive read some reviews where people complained of diff issues.. but typically problem exist between the keyboard and chair. As long as you have technical sense, these are great.
#8 what's a good card recommendation for a VMC based HTPC then? I'm going to be switching from DTV to Comcast so my options are opening a little bit I believe in terms of the tuner front.
#8 I've read on the Hauppauge site for this card they have a patch to allow QAM with windows media center, but I wouldn't know since I'm using a dvico fusion 7 dual card.
#2 I've found that WMC will now support up to 4 tuners of each type. I'm running 2 NTSC and 4 ATSC tuners (total of 6 and they all work).