Please recommend a TV tuner card

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I have an old TV - which I cannot plug my Wii into, and my friend wants her new TV back.

Cost not really an issue - but let's not be stupid about it.

I need to be able to be able to connect my Wii using the composite AV cable with RCA connectors into the TV tuner card. Suggestion would be really appreciated.

Also, I've heard that with component cables the graphics get a little bump in the right direction - is it just the cables that are different or do you need a different card to read them too?

One last thing - is it really a big problem if I have a LCD screen with 5ms response - does this have anything to do with the refresh rate and can a better TV tuner card help?

Eek - too many questions.
 
5ms is great for an LCD and you will not have any issues.

Any good tuner card will do, but make sure for comfort sake that it can do divx encoding and is vista compliant otherwise you will end up buying in a year or so again.

If your Wii has got 3 strand RCA capabilities all should be well. You will have to insert the yellow into the tv tuner card which in turn will pump everything to the lcd.

I have faith in LeadTek http://www.leadtek.com/eng/tv_tuner/default.asp?lineid=6
 
Thanks for the answers - would the Hauppage 150 - which is half price at around R700, be just as good. I understand that it just doesn't have the second tuner card inside.
 
Yup, bought one for my ex, i just like being able to record and watch seperate channels... Which shops did you try?
 
I wish I bought a Hauppage ... i got some other cheap trash ... at least mine has on board encoding :P
 
of course, the dirty secret people arent saying is
the hauppauge card has a hardware encoder onboard, which makes it lovely for watching tv

3 SECONDS DELAYED

yes, 3 second delay, because the card buffers everythng and converts it

this same thing makes it **** for playing games through, because if you turn left wiht the controller, your car has already crashed into a wall in the game, except you are yet to see it happen in real life on your tv.

you can work around this, say, using dscaler software, but then the card works as a normal el cheapo card, and you will be sitting there thinking, man, i shoulda just bought an el cheapo card and saved the money for a hooker, seeing as you wont be using the actual tuner part on the card it makes no sense spending money on a better tuner.

pretty much every cardwhen using composite, is going to be equal to the next card to within 5%

you ownt be able to capture component on a pc without spending R3000+ on something like a sweetspot card
 
Renamed20070410 said:
of course, the dirty secret people arent saying is
the hauppauge card has a hardware encoder onboard, which makes it lovely for watching tv

3 SECONDS DELAYED

yes, 3 second delay, because the card buffers everythng and converts it

this same thing makes it **** for playing games through, because if you turn left wiht the controller, your car has already crashed into a wall in the game, except you are yet to see it happen in real life on your tv.

you can work around this, say, using dscaler software, but then the card works as a normal el cheapo card, and you will be sitting there thinking, man, i shoulda just bought an el cheapo card and saved the money for a hooker, seeing as you wont be using the actual tuner part on the card it makes no sense spending money on a better tuner.

pretty much every cardwhen using composite, is going to be equal to the next card to within 5%

you ownt be able to capture component on a pc without spending R3000+ on something like a sweetspot card
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So is that what you do with the cash u saved on computer stuff :D
 
Why not get a cheap VCR?

Plug the Wii into the VCR component in, the plug the TV aerial lead into the old TV.

Just a suggestion.
 
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