Analog tuner w/win7 64-bit drivers?

[drewg]

What analog tuner with h/w mpeg compression do I want to buy if I'm running Win7, 64-bit? I've got more than 4GB of RAM, so I think that my first choice (Hauppage PVR-150) is ruled out, as they don't seem to have drivers that can handle more than 4GB. I can't find any recent analog tuners, everything I've seen mentioned in the "support tuners" thread seem to have been discontinued...

And yes, I've already got QAM tuners... I really am interested in an analog tuner for analog cable.

Thanks,

Drew

[larryf]

I have an HVR-1600 on my Win7 X64 system. My cable company still does analog for people that still have SD TVs.

This is used as 'overflow' when all the other tuners are full, it's hard to back to SD on a big TV.

Larry

[drewg]

Thanks! I hadn't considered these hybrid tuners would have a h/w mpeg2 encoder. My older dvico "hybrids" only have s/w encoding, so I just assumed that would be the case for all hybrids.

Thanks!

Drew

[Tiki]

Originally Posted by drewg

Thanks! I hadn't considered these hybrid tuners would have a h/w mpeg2 encoder. My older dvico "hybrids" only have s/w encoding, so I just assumed that would be the case for all hybrids.

Thanks!

Drew

Yup, the HVR- 1600, 1850, and 2250 all have hardware MPEG encoders. You will also want to pay attention to whether you want a PCI or PCIe card, and single or dual tuner.

Click here for a comparison of the HVR cards on Hauppauge's site.