ATI TV Wonder

Advantages Play your console games on your PC! Lots of recording features.
Disadvantages Image quality is not as good as TV, very difficult to install

...'t control the channels from my computer. The main reason I bought the tuner was to connect up all my games consoles, and this card is very good with the consoles. All of them work well and it's quite cool seeing an N64 game running in a PC window. The picture quality was slightly lagged, with the images distorting if anything moved too fast. There are gaps between lines, where TVs send signals to odd and even lines alternately, this does not translate well to the better resolution of a computer monitor but it looks OK. The sound is all about your sound card really so if you want good sound, you'll need a good sound card. There are many options with the card, with the user being able to record their favourite shows on PC (although it does take up a lot of space) and you are also able to take screenshots (it may be a bit distorted... Read review

Advantages The Sound is soooooo Good!
Disadvantages The installation is very tricky, u might get a bit stuck.

...OK, If your are looking for a Television set, say you want it to be NICAM stereo and have a built in VCR and a screen size of 17"? OK, so you are still looking for one under £200, but then I tell you that your 15" or larger Monitor and your PC will do fine for a £50 PC upgrade, How can this be! Well it's simple the clever people at ATI have produced a fantastic high quality 3 in 1 TV tuner for your PC, the SOund is like at the , and the image is just so clear you will see your reflection, and then you can record your fav programs if you miss them, without having to bother finding Tapes. This Model the TV Wonder i picked up new for £52 , I have never stopped watching TV since. I recommend it a lot, but you will need to think some things over, installing the card can be tricky aas the instrucions arnt too good, when Windows Loads and says... Read review

Advantages good software bundle, realtime MPEG1 encoding, good TV tuner
Disadvantages some problems with installation

...If you want to have digital copy of all these VHS family films, this is the one to go for. Just at around 50 quid it is reasonably priced, has lots of features and comes from world known manufacturer of video card products. The features include realtime capturing of ANY video source, including your tv, tv areal, VCR, video camera etc. In addition you have real time encoding into MPEG1 standard with 30 frames per second video with stereo sound quality. Furthermore, you get quality tv tuner for 150 channels with lots of interesting features including life desktop, where you can work on your computer and whatch tv at the same time. The card includes good packaged software including DigitalVCR allowing you to use your computer as VCR to record all these tv shows on your computer harddrive. You can have some problems with installation... Read review