RE: Hauppauge or Nvidia

From: videoguru (videoguru_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 12/16/04 

Date: Wed, 15 Dec 2004 19:23:01 -0800

I would recommend purchasing the NVidia dual tuner card. I just purchased one
that I will be giving my wife as a christmas gift. One of big disadvantages
of the 500MCE is that it only offers one comp/s-video input along with one
set stereo audio inputs. The NVidia dual tuner card offers two s-video and
two stereo audio inputs.

"GQ" wrote:

> I have the same question....I have an HP MCE
> 3.4 GHz P4
> 1.0 GB Ram
> 256 ATI Radeon PCI-Express video card
>
> I would like to upgrade to a dual tuner. But I don't know which would give
> better quality...the Hauppauge, or the NVIDIA.
>
> "Matthew Clark" wrote:
>
> > I have been going back and forth on if I should by a Hauppauge 500MCE or the
> > 2 Tuner NVidia card. I want to be able to record or watch over the air
> > channels, but have the ability to input SVideo and RCA inputs which both of
> > these can do I think. I have read that some peope think Hauppauge has
> > better video than NVidia, and I have read other people who think the
> > opposite. I have an ATI video card with DVI out in a Dell 8400 P4 3.4 with
> > 1 GB of RAM. Which card should I get? Help!!! BTW, I have been waiting
> > a LONG time to get the Haupauge from Buy.com, but could order an NVidia and
> > get it sooner I think.
> >
> > Thank you,
> >
> > Matthew
> >
> >
> >

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