Best TV Tuner Card for Windows 7?

dnorris said:

My Hauppauge Win Tv HVR-2250 card has worked just fine with Vista and all Win 7 builds... I watch tv on it all the time, using Windows Media Center.

i have the same card. I have 2 seperate harddrives for my HTPC, one with vista 32 and the other with 7 64bit. I would perfer to use the 7 but my mce remote isnt working in 7, works fine in vista. got any clues as to what is wrong? I sent hauppauge an email , havent heard from them

Hauppauge Win TV HVR-1600 works smoothly after adding one reg key.

Suprise no body mentioned avermedia duet. Even their USB version works quite well.

Are there any USB TV tuners for Windows 7 that people would recomend ??

I have an ASRock ION and there's nowhere to put an internal tuner card.

My old FREECOM dual-tuner is found in Windows7/WMC, but it took 12 hours to scan for channels and then when it had finished it couldn't display the A/V

TIA.

In using a twin tuner USB "WinTV" Nova-TD and it works very well.

digitalfog said:

This card works well with all builds sofar of Windows7. I havent tried installing their drivers.

DF

I have a Dvico Fusion DVB-T PCI card and downloaded the latest version of their software (v. 3.80), purportedly catering for 64-bit OSs.

There is no way I can get this card and software to work under Win7 RTM - without installing drivers it crashes Media Centre; when I install the Dvico software it refuses to install the required driver, and a yellow ! mark appears for Multimedia controller under Device Manager. Trying to install a driver via Device Manager fails to find any, either on the web or on the computer...

Any help gratefully acknowledged.

Cheers,

LMH

NB: a $A49 Leadtek 'cheapie' works beautifully with WMC under Win7 RTM on another machine

I settled for Avermedia duet and it's been working flawlessly (knock on wood)

carioca said:

I have a Dvico Fusion DVB-T PCI card and downloaded the latest version of their software (v. 3.80), purportedly catering for 64-bit OSs.

There is no way I can get this card and software to work under Win7 RTM - without installing drivers it crashes Media Centre; when I install the Dvico software it refuses to install the required driver, and a yellow ! mark appears for Multimedia controller under Device Manager. Trying to install a driver via Device Manager fails to find any, either on the web or on the computer...

Any help gratefully acknowledged.

Cheers,

LMH

NB: a $A49 Leadtek 'cheapie' works beautifully with WMC under Win7 RTM on another machine

Just a few days ago I did a clean install of the RTM 64 version and although Win7 recognised the card (ie. seemingly no driver issues) it would not find any TV stations in MCE. I then installed the version 3.8 software from DViCO as you mentioned and not only does their software work but MCE does as well. I know this doesnt help you much but it does prove that it works with Win7 64 RTM and Fusion HDTV 3.8. Clean install...:)

Dig.

Thanks Dig,

this gives me some hope...

Perhaps it has to do with the fact that I have the card in a dual-boot PC? It works just fine undr XP SP3 but not under Win7 RTM (installed on a separate drive). Maybe the installer somehow 'sees' the Fusion software installed on the other drive and won't install another?

Will keep trying...
Cheers,

LMH