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.
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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
 

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

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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.
 

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

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

DF
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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
 

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

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I think I already posted in here, but my WinTV-HVR-1800 Product description works OOB without any third party drivers or the need to install their proprietary WinTV application. There is a new product, the 1850, which replaces the RCA jacks with an onboard IR receiver, so you don't need a beanbag - but I have a desktop so beanbag is good for me.....
 

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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
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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.


 

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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
 

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There's a few other PCs in my 'office', all older machines, running Ubuntu 9.10, Vista Ultimate and one surviving Windows ME machine (due to some old programs that I haven't moved...). I believe another 'veteran' still runs OpenSuse...
FWIW, I updated RC1 to Win7 RTM Home Premium x32 and it had a proper driver for my Hauppauge 2250 when I installed the OS and ran the first Windows update. This was NOT the case with RC1. Working great, see no need to go hunting for newer drivers and newer troubles.

I got the update on 21-august-2009 right after the install. Hope this helps. Card works perfectly for my QAM needs, no ATSC where I live until I sue the HOA so they will approve a roof mounted antenna.
 

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Well I just installed the AverMedia Hybrid Bravo PCI-e tuner using the vista 64 drivers on the disc. And it works great on their software but I can't get it to work in MC. But for 49.00 It's fine for my pc I've got a 52in Samsung 1080P flat iin the livingroom if I really feel the need to watch something. However it would be nice to have it working on MC as well as Quam
 
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hello

I'm using windows 7 64xbit and i have a tv card that its driver called hedytv. but it doesnt work. can anyone help me find a working one for windows 7 64bit.
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Quik Fix:
Go to Run and type in msconfig
go to the area were it says Boot
Click on the operating system
Click on advanced options
Change your memeory to read 4095. It will default to 4096.
This prevent Win 64 rom load anymore than 3 meg of ram.
There is a bug in Media Center.
It will not run with more that 3 meg of ram.
It work great.

Hope it works
 

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Strange, my Hauppauge runs fine in x64 with 12gb of RAM here.
 

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Dvico card now works - for no apparent reason

digitalfog said:
carioca said:
<SNIP>
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.
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I stuffed around with XP mode yesterday and tried to load the 3.80 software into this virtual machine, but no dice... it always aborted on loading with a device error.

So today I called up Media Centre by chance and it let me watch live TV - without me doing anything special (apart from uninstalling the Dvico package from the XPM 'sandbox')!

Knock me down with a feather! Perhaps MS in its latest driver updates sneaked in a new Dvico driver?!

Cheers,

LMH
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There's a few other PCs in my 'office', all older machines, running Ubuntu 9.10, Vista Ultimate and one surviving Windows ME machine (due to some old programs that I haven't moved...). I believe another 'veteran' still runs OpenSuse...
By Fare the Happauge 2250 has the least amount of problems, and does so much more with superior quality. I have one my self.

cbkitt
 

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Media Center in W7 is able to tune in one weak analog channel that my vista x64 installation won't; Compro E800 runs also fine.
 

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