what tv tuner i choose ? (1 Viewer)

[drhoffman]

hya ppl, i have a problem...i want made a media center with my laptop and i want buy a usb tv tuner(hardware encoding) compatible with media portal! i saw the list but in portugal the only tv tuner in the your list i found its HAUPPAUGE WinTV-PVR-USB2 but its out of stock for about 3 months and i dont know what tv tuner buy , my question its .. if i buy a usb tv tuner that insnt on the list of compatible cards ,exist some probability of the card be compatible with media portal? what the parameters a tv tuner have to be compatible with media portal? i want to buy a tv tuner but i have afraid that doenst work with your excelent program... what i do? some sugestions? exist any mark that are more compatible than others? i want buy a tv tuner and have the higger probability possible to the cards be compatible with media portal


tks a lot


PS: sorry my bad english.

 

[rtv]

No chance to get that Hauppauge via internet maybe even from another country? Or at least ebay?

 

[drhoffman]

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do u know some online shop in european union where i can buy Hauppauge usb2 tv tuner? i already search in ebay of Usa and in ebay from germany and i dont find anything

 

[drhoffman]

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i find it in germany ebay but all of them only ship to germany and not to portugal

 

[ARH]

try www.novatech.co.uk very good service and cost.