Which USB Tuner will net me the best results?

[chepburn]

I recently purchased a small "book" style PC (ASUS Essentio CS5111)

Opening up this little fella isn't an option so I'm looking for a USB solution that will work with Sage.

Specs on the PC are:

Pentium dual-core E2200(2.20GHz)
4GB DDR2
640GB
Intel GMA X3500
Windows Vista 64 Bit

I basically just want to use this as a tuner box, maybe record TV every once in a while (it's a bedroom media box atm)

Thank in advance

[doc]

Where abouts are you?

as in country/part of country, and what type of reception do you get, as in satellite/over-the-air/cable etc.

There are a lot of USB tuners but what you get will depend on what signal you can pick up.

[chepburn]

sorry about that

USA, Texas
Cable connection (analog and digital as well as HD broadcast over the cable)

[gplasky]

HDHomerun is a network tuner and will get you OTA and digital ClearQam. HD-PVR is a USB tuner that will connect to your STB via component and SPDIF or analog sound and will record anything you can tune on your STB.

Gerry

[Jason]

Originally Posted by chepburn

I recently purchased a small "book" style PC (ASUS Essentio CS5111)

Opening up this little fella isn't an option so I'm looking for a USB solution that will work with Sage.

Specs on the PC are:

Pentium dual-core E2200(2.20GHz)
4GB DDR2
640GB
Intel GMA X3500
Windows Vista 64 Bit

I basically just want to use this as a tuner box, maybe record TV every once in a while (it's a bedroom media box atm)

Thank in advance

You could use the HAVA as a single tuner option... It is fairly simple and still gives you the option of using a network encoder withut the hassles of something sticking out of your netbook.

http://forums.sagetv.com/forums/show...highlight=HAVA

[freedml]

I have 3 Hauppauge 950Qs and they work well. I use them for OTA but they can also do QAM.