MOst Recomended FreeView - HDTV - Hardware Encoder Card (1 Viewer)

[ChEeSyBoOfS]

I wonder if you guys can help!

I want to know pound for pound what is the best FreeView - HDTV - Hardware Encoder Card. I know what is supported via the wiki but I want to know what is the best.

I have just built a new Media Center PC in a top of the range OrigenAE x15e case @ some £500+ pound with a 2Gb Core Duo CPU - DDRII RAM and SATAII Drive.

1. I would like to know what card would be best to enable UK FreeView hardware encoding with the option to go to HDTV should it ever happen.

2. Would two PCI cards be better / cheeper than one dual channel card.

Please excuse my nievety on this particular subject.

 

[dman_lfc]

Any decent DVB-T card will receive HDTV in the UK.
If you want analogue as well with hardware encoding then I would suggest the HVR-1300MCE from Hauppauge.

DMAN