Re: Hauppauge or Nvidia

From: Peter Near [MCE MVP] (peter_at_thenears.com)
Date: 12/16/04 

Date: Wed, 15 Dec 2004 22:29:09 -0500

 From reading other postings, it would appear to be six of one,
half-dozen of the other.

Hauppauge cards are in general known to be of good quality with
excellent driver support (pro). The Hauppauge may require an accessory
cable to connect dual STBs (con).

Nvidia tuners have yet to prove themselves for support, but initial
quality reports are good (con). The Nvidia has on-the-card dual inputs
for dual STBs (pro).

Personally, I'm leery of cards that have unproven support - Avermedia
and ATI tuners were hot at one point but have since left users
frustrated without decent driver support. However, nVidia being nVidia,
I'd give them the benefit of the doubt when it comes to driver support -
they've been very good supporting all other aspects of MCE so far.

Happy to have not helped one bit in making your decision. ;-)

Pete

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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