I'm looking to get a TV tuner for my desktop, does anyone use one that they would recommend?

Giveaway.

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No idea. Get a bump instead.

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Maybe use IPTV instead. if channels are available, or do you want convert analog videos to digital?

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I'm trying to pick up the digital broadcasts, like with clear tv.

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IPTV then, search for IPTV channels list and use Kodi or VLC

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I dunno if he's still making them, but acosta xbmc used to put out near weekly videos on youtube with the newest most reliable iptv addons for kodi/xbmc

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Bump

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Do you mean a tv card? Satellite (DVB-S2), cable (DVB-C) or terrestrial (DVB-T/T2/ATSC)? Or a combination of those?

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Apparently ATSC. Do you know if a DVB-T card would work for ATSC?

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Nevermind, google is saying that a DVB-T card won't work for me.

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I can help here since I was looking for the same thing these days and had to read up on all aspects of video transmission before making a choice. Also, I was not on the largest budget so I had to choose wisely.

I was looking for something which would work on a laptop as well (not an internal card) so a usb tuner. capture works anyway with any tuner and picture in picture or dual station capture was optional.

For standard cable, what you will need is a tv tuner with analog receiving capabilities. Should your cable be sending digital and HD channels, you will need a tuner which can receive the DVB-C standard. For digital air transmissions, you will need dvb-t or dvb-t2. Its a hassle to figure out what you have. I needed analog as well as dvb-c and I found a great hybrid tuner for a very decent price on the website aliexpress. It also has free shipping worldwide and costs only 25usd. Chances are this will be ok for you as well. Link is below. Good luck and hope it'll be what you need.

http://www.aliexpress.com/item/2015-Newest-Europe-Digital-satellite-DVB-t2-usb-tv-stick-Tuner-with-antenna-Remote-HD-TV/32616185428.html?spm=2114.13010308.0.46.CVdB68

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Apparently I need one with the US video signal, but I may grab one of these for when I travel Thanks!

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Well both analog and dvb-c are universal from what I gather so, should you be trying to receive a cable signal or an analog antenna, this one would be ok for US as well. For digital over-the-air the US *may have a different standard.

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I had one as PCI-express x1.
Now I have an pluggable Hybrid PCTV.

So my recomendation is one: Buy pluggable. You can use it with laptop too later...

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I have an old K-media PC-TV PCI-E card in my computer as I don't have a real TV. The software it came with doesn't support newer operating systems but if you can pick one up cheap on ebay or whatever I'd say go for it - it works great for receiving terrestrial digital TV with VLC (freeware) on both Windows 7 and linux and also has physical inputs for my obsolete consoles and VHS player so I can play them in a window on my desktop.

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I'll have to look into those, if nothing else it would be nice to be able to just plug in my old consoles.

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After reading through the rest of the thread mine is DVB-T rather than ATSC - I'm assuming there are regional variants but something to watch out for...

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I skimmed the above posts and it sounds like you're trying to pick up OTA broadcasts. I'd recommend an HD HomeRun from Silicon Dust. It's external and works over your network, so multiple computers can use it. I don't have personal experience with one, but they come highly recommended. I don't have a TV card in my desktop, but I have a dedicated PC for recording TV. I use a Hauppauge HVR-2250 dual TV tuner. It does OTA ATSC, Clear QAM cable and regular old cable.

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That Hauppauge tuner looks like exactly what I was looking for, thanks! I'll have too look more at the HD HomeRun though.

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I have no clue as to what a TV Tuner is, (guessing it has something to do with watching TV on your computer?) so have a bump :)

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