HDTV tuner cards

[Cougs_83]

Hi hopefully someone can help me out. I am looking at building a new PC and
I am trying to get more info on TV tuner cards. I don't understand exactly
how they work. I currently have direct tv with an HD DVR so if I and a HDTV
tuner card to the PC can I use it to replace my DVR if the card is also a
PVR? In other words do I just hook in the cables that currently go to my DVR
and I can record, pause and rewind live TV? Can I burn the video to disk?
Thanks for the info

 

[Rich Barry]

I am sure that you can find a Card that can do all those things but it
depends on what you want to Pay. Check here
http://www.hdtvtunerinfo.com/commonquestions.html

 

[Andrew E.]

The TV cards are limited to what they can do,first,youre recieving
video,being
able to send out cmds is diffrent as the cards have "video-in".ATI makes a
fairly good one starts at 60.00,you'd probably have to spend a whole lot more
for better.Also,youre best bet,install the cards drivers only (no
software),for
great software (doing the same),download & install Windows media encoder,
get the utilities also...