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Recommended TV Tuner cards:

TV tuner cards with hardware encoding do all the "heavy-lifting" required to record and watch TV which allows your processor to do other things. For this reason, we recommends TV tuner cards with hardware encoding:

Adaptec AVC-3610 
Adaptec VideOh! Media Center (USB 2.0) 
Adaptec VideOh! Media Center (PCI) 
Adaptec's USB 2.0 Dual TV Tuner (AVC-3610) 
ADSTech InstantTV Deluxe (USB 2.0) 
ADSTech InstantTV Deluxe (PCI) 
ATI eHome Wonder 
ATI TV Wonder Elite 
AverMedia m150 
Avermedia m175 
Diamond XtremeTV PVR550 (PCI) 
Diamond XtremeTV PVR600 (USB) 
Hauppauge WinTV-PVR-150 (more information) 
Hauppauge WinTV-PVR-150MCE 
Hauppauge WinTV-PVR-250 
Hauppauge WinTV PVR-250BTV 
Hauppauge WinTV-PVR-350 
Hauppauge WinTV-PVR-500MCE 
Hauppauge WinTV-PVR USB2 
NVIDIA® DualTV MCE tuner 
PixelView PlayTV P7000 
Plextor PX-TV402U / PXM402U 
Prolink Pixelview PlayTV HD 
Tuners based on the ATI Theater 550 chipset, including: 
ATI Theater 550 Pro 
Sapphire Theatrix 
others by GeCube, Gigabyte, MSI, Tul, and Yuan 
Other models by ATI or Sapphire may use the same chipset as well 
Yuan MPG-600 
Yuan MPG-843 
Yuan PG-600