Quote Originally Posted by badkuk View Post
Am looking for a cheap analog/digital TV PVR to record some local shows. Currently we're on Destiny Cable(analog), but i'm anticipating that we'll be moving to SkyCable(digital) soon.

i found this on Amazon:

Hauppauge 1192 WinTV HVR-1950 External USB HDTV Tuner/Video Recorder

Will this do the trick? i'd like to be able to record in HD if available.

i've had USB TV tuners in the past, and i find the recordings on the grainy side; dunno if it's because it used software encoding or if it's because of the USB interface(the above supposedly has onboard MPEG-2 encoding)

tia
I'm not sure how good a quality you're looking for. These are samples of recordings from my USB2 Hauppage WinTV-HVR 950Q. The channel is only digital (non-HD) because the HD counterpart was playing infomercials. The tuner is on a Toshiba netbook. I then copied the footage to my ASUS laptop. I don't think the other tv tuners will have markedly improved footage because of the signal source. It's good enough to me. I'm surprised my netbook can handle the recording chores because the CPU falls below the minimum.