That's one advantage of the DIY HTPC I'm building: you can always swap out the tuner card for another.
I have an ATI 550 on the way from eBay, which will complete the parts I need. The rest are from my recent upgrade to my main PC (which now sports a dual-core Athlon 5200, 2 GB of RAM and a 36 GB WD 10K RPM Raptor for the system drive--smokin!). > -----Original Message----- > Draw a parallel to my DVR. I really love my DVR. I can't imagine > watching > TV any other way. My DVR works fine -- probably has years of life in > it. > I have a lifetime subscription to the programming service. Yet my DVR > only knows the NTSC standard and NTSC is going away in 14 months. So I > am > unhappy about progress too. ************************************************************************ * ==> QUICK LIST-COMMAND REFERENCE - Put the following commands in <== * ==> the body of an email & send 'em to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <== * Join the list: SUBSCRIBE COMPUTERGUYS-L Your Name * Too much mail? Try Daily Digests command: SET COMPUTERGUYS-L DIGEST * Tired of the List? Unsubscribe command: SIGNOFF COMPUTERGUYS-L * New address? From OLD address send: CHANGE COMPUTERGUYS-L YourNewAddress * Need more help? Send mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ************************************************************************ * List archive at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/ * RSS at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/maillist.xml * Messages bearing the header "X-No-Archive: yes" will not be archived ************************************************************************