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Originally posted by MontanaXVI
I have a TV Wonder VE and think it is a POS, might be some config with my system or whatever but WINXP pro newest drivers etc and I can view TV fine and with good qual, but damn me if I want to close the program the image freezes up on screen and I have to reboot.
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I haven't had many problems with mine, but i agree it is a POS, but it's also the cheapest TV card I've seen, and for $40 it's a good deal. I guess if it crashes your system everytime you shut it down that increases the POS factor. I never had that problem, but my ATI MMC used to never really close, it would dissapear from the screen, but when I tried to open the program the next time, nothing would happen. I would have to open task manager and close all the ATIMMC.exe task, sometimes there was 3 or 4. LAst weekend I reinstalled ATI MMC 7.9, and it has worked fine since then. I also have XP Pro. Did you try a different PCI slot?
Tuna911, if you're looking for quality, stay away from the TV Wonder VE. It works well for a simple TV and recording tv shows, but it sounds terribly shitty (no stereo!) and (although I don't know what the picture of other TV cards looks like, and i have my cable signal split by 5 so it's slightly weak) the picture is a little grainy. But then again it's only $40.
Thanks everyone for your advice. I assumed a 500MHz Pentium 3 would be able to act as a decent DVR machine, there's no way a Tivo box has a 500MHz processor...but I guess that's that way it is with older PCs.
Just looking around at all the tv shows, etc. that are available via filesharing now, I don't even know if I need a DVR, I can just download any show I want.