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From: Barry Watzman on 19 Feb 2007 20:25
Sounds like a crappy tuner card. If you want to buy a new card, I'd
recommend the Hauppauge 150 series. Keep in mind that any tuner that
you buy today will be useless in a couple of years (broadcast of NTSC
standard television will end in February, 2009).


sofasurfer wrote:
> I have WindowsXP with a KWorld Global TV Terminator modelTV7131PCI TV
> Card.
> I don't get a lot of channels that my other tv gets (using antenna).
> Also, the frequency fine tuner doesn't improve the fuzzy channels.
> When I fine tune, it goes from viewable state to black screen with no
> noticable differance in between.
>
> Do I have a crappy card or can I expect the same from a differant one?
>
> This one cost me about $35. Doesn't have onboard video card. Do you
> recommend a differant tuner card? Whats my best bet from about the
> same cost?
>
> Anything esle I should know?
>
> Thanks...
>
From: Barry Watzman on 19 Feb 2007 23:08
To the extent that cable systems will be free to do so at their own
option, you are potentially correct. However, I think that in practice
you will find that NTSC will disappear very quickly on cable systems as
well.

The deadline for the manufacture of ANY products (not just TVs but also
any kind of VCR or DVD recorder) with analog only tuners is next week.
The quality difference is huge, and prices have come WAY down, 56" inch
1080p sets have been sold by Best Buy for $1,749 (and really more like
$1,500 with various available discounts and rebates) and it's continuing
to drop. Standard Definition TV, even on cable systems, is going to die
surprisingly fast.


Tom Lake wrote:
> "Barry Watzman" <WatzmanNOSPAM(a)neo.rr.com> wrote in message
> news:45da4e27$0$28086$4c368faf(a)roadrunner.com...
>> Sounds like a crappy tuner card. If you want to buy a new card, I'd
>> recommend the Hauppauge 150 series. Keep in mind that any tuner that you
>> buy today will be useless in a couple of years (broadcast of NTSC standard
>> television will end in February, 2009).
>
> Only free air analog broadcasting will cease. Cable TV will still have it
> available.
>
> Tom Lake
>
>
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