What's the Best TV Tuner Card

Hi All,

I'm sure someone has asked this before but I couldn't find a relevant thread. What's the best tv tuner card out there? I want to be able to watch and record multiple channels at once, and turn my old pc into a really nice htpc. I'm basically switching my old gaming rig to the HTPC.

e4800 cpu
DFI LP x38 dk t2rb mobo
4gig of ddr2 ram
radeon 4870 512mb grphx card (i know it's way to loud for htpc, but i might switch out for a different card or build a sound box for the htpc and use a rf remote)

There's plenty of room in my case and i can run the tuner card in reg pci, pci-e 1x, 4x, or 16x. If ya'll could give me options in different price ranges that'd be good too. I know Hauppage is supposed to be really good, but which one???

Thanks

oh and i have a Laser Disk player and would like to be able to dump my LD's onto dvd or bd. why dont i just buy the dvds or bd you ask? because some of the LD's are directors cuts that are unlikely to be released with the same cut on dvd aka It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World.

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At this point in time, I would choose the Ceton InfiniTV4 card if you can afford it. This software/firmware is more mature. If you are looking for less expensive, read the SiliconDust forums for a while, to make sure they are getting the reported problems fixed.

For any of the cablecard tuners, most of the activation problems turn out to be the cable company's fault, not the tuner manufacturers.

I have been using a ceton tuner for about 3 months now, and love it. No problem in installation or activation (with Comcast).

well I ended up getting the hauppauge 2250 but haven't gotten it working the way i want it yet..... we'll see just havent had time.

Long time ago when old windows-XP was ruling you were able to use two channels. Say, have you tried to do capture from four devices at once ????