Thread: What tuner card for watching over the air digital TV?

I am working on how to do away with DirecTV which so far has been fairly simple. Netflix for movies and Hulu for TV shows. The only piece of the puzzle left for me is pulling Digital TV off the air for channels like CBS, NBS, ABC, Fox... etc. Anyone recommend anything specific?

I was looking on NewEgg and am considering buying this card (Especially since it comes with a remote).

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16815116036

Obviously, the remote would have to work with Win 7 MC as well as Hulu Desktop. Since I've never had a remote control for my computer I thought I would throw that out there as a requirement.

Woot has some shit for 20 bucks;
ATI TV Wonder USB Digital HDTV Tuner
$19.99


jump on that, at 20 dollars its hard to lose...

Hauppauge makes great stuff. I have a previous model of their card, pretty much the same as what you're looking at. I have analog TV plugged into one tuner and digital antenna plugged into the other. Scanning for channels is easy and if you use the software that Hauppauge packages with the card then you can scan and use both tuners. Their software also has your usually TiVo type functionality and recording scheduler.

When I started using Win 7 RC, the OS detected and installed my Hauppauge tuner without any problems. I found that Window Media Center worked very well with the card. In fact, I liked it better than the packaged software. The only difference and something to watch out for if you plan to use both tuners on the card is that Windows MC only supports scanning and using one tuner at a time. You can't scan channels for both tuners and have access to both sets of channels like with packaged software, but that's not too big a deal.

Oddly enough, I found that the IR remote worked better with Windows MC than with the packaged software. It will even run and close Windows MC when you use the power button. :9 Hulu Desktop I don't have so I can't answer that one for you.

Originally Posted by nsRaven

Oddly enough, I found that the IR remote worked better with Windows MC than with the packaged software. It will even run and close Windows MC when you use the power button. :9 Hulu Desktop I don't have so I can't answer that one for you.

Well damnit Raven, go get it and try it out! Plus, I think Hulu Desktop is easier to use then their site and I think there are more shows through Desktop

http://download.hulu.com/HuluDesktopSetup.exe

Unfortunately Cybs, my pc is still sick. I got the new Corsair PSU in the mail yesterday, but I'll probably return it since OCZ will replace the one I have once I ship it to them.