Quote Originally Posted by slgrieb
Depends on your system. You need at least a Gig if not 2 GB of fast memory and I'd suggest a Dual Core processor. Plus a decent SATA hard drive. Try it on your current platform and see if you're happy with the results.
I won't be able to do a trial of it
Techniclly I have my Geforce 7800 card which has VIVO but using the software I record with it doesn't do hardware encoding. Therefore It's slightly pointless of me to get another card if I can't make use of the computer while I'm recording t.v.

Dual core is out of the question for me at the moment, I have 2 decent SATA hard drives, and 2GB of fast ram. To be more specific I don't have to be able to play BF2 just browse the internet and play less resource demanding games.

That Firewire box sound interesting, I'll have to check it out. My question though is will the performance be the same as a PCI card? will I still have to stick to using less resource intensive programs with it?

I which I could have a dedicated HTPC like you Bob, I wish there was a box similar to a ReplayTV that I could just add a harddrive too and configure the way I want.

I should have also stated that I'm comparing the idea of putting in a tv tuner card(with hardware encoding) to buying a standalone PVR ( the Neuros mpeg-4 recorder) but I'm not sure this unit will work, plus there is the added cost of media. I'm also not sure how well any of this stuff will work with a direct tv reciever.