recommended TV tuner board for Vista 64

[John H]

My ATI 600 PCIE TVW card is a failed installation on Vista 64, as discussed in some detail in a thread below. Okay, I will use it on a different (XP) computer.

What tuner card should I buy to replace it on the Vista machine?

Perhaps someone could suggest one that is known to work under Vista 64 Ultimate.

Thank you for your insights.

[John H]

Let me ask this question in another way. Has anyone ever gotten a TV tuner to work under Visa Ultimate x64?

If so, please let me know which tuner worked.

Many thanks for your counsel on this.

John

[RichFrogg]

  Quote: Originally Posted by John H

Let me ask this question in another way. Has anyone ever gotten a TV tuner to work under Visa Ultimate x64?

If so, please let me know which tuner worked.

Many thanks for your counsel on this.

John

Hi John,

I got this HP Tuner (USB) with my compuer. I have all the Drivers installed and everything is working fine. I haven't been able to connect with my TV yet but I think that it has something to do with Verizon. I have to give them a call. I'll keep you posted.

HP® Official Store — Buy an HP USB TV Tuner (KS523AA#ABA) from HP

[scrooge]

before you go out and spend money on a new card did you download the 64 bit drivers for your card? i'm only asking cause i have a old ati 650 pci card that i'm
using with vista and windows 7 and it works fine . i'm guessing my card is alot
older then yours . also did you try installing the drivers in xp
compatibility ? that may also help.
scrooge

[John H]

Thank you for your ideas on this. The curious failure of the ATI 600 PCIE is recounted here:

TV Wonder -- The Long Hello....

The tuner works when it is first installed, but on reboot (which takes about 15 minutes for some reason) the installation is lost. I suspect Vista is swallowing the drivers.

I do have the 64 bit driver, which ATI designates as a 64/32 bit driver.

I don't know a procedure for installing drivers in XP compatibility. Is there a site where I could learn about this?

Thank you for your insights.

John

[scrooge]

right click on the downloaded software (drivers) then click properties and you will see compatibility mode . it looks like this .



under the ( run this program in compatibility mode for) use xp sp2

[John H]

Thank you for this help. I will try it and see what happens.
Best, John

[dskater411]

if it doesn't work for you I use this one with a 64bit vista driver

AVerMedia - AVerTV Combo PCIe (White Box), Internal PCIe HD and standard TV Tuner Product, Vista TV Tuner, Combo TV Tuner, HD TV Tuner, PCI TV Tuners, PCI TV Tuner, TV Tuner, TV Tuners, Media Center, Media Center Edition, MCE 2005

works great and has 2 tuners, 1 for cable and 1 for hdtv broadcast

[John H]

Thank you for this recommendation.

In the end I experimented with several legacy 32-bit XP programs to see if I could bring them back to life. For my Canon Lide scanner for example, which will not run under Vista 64, the scanning software did come back up. I was surprised and pleased to see it again. However, the driver could not be made to work with this technique.

What I need is a 64 bit driver for the TV tuner.

Today, without expecting much, I visited the ati site and, lo, they have posted a new driver for the ati 600 pcie TV Tuner. They posted the new driver on December 10.

I made a fresh installation with this new driver, and it certainly
improved the set of problems I am seeing.

Vista will now re-boot normally, instead of stalling for 15-20 minutes and then, somehow, obliterating all memory of the TV tuner installation.

The TV installation still will not "stick" in Vista Media center, for some reason. On reboot it is gone -- no signal. But the TV will run in ATI's catalyst media center. It is available there no matter how many times the system is rebooted.

The ATI TV viewing software is less desirable, perhaps because it tries to emulate a TIVO and this makes for a herky jerky presentation. Vista's media center does not have this problem. However, on reboot after installation of the tuner, the Vista Media Center can no longer find the TV signal.

I will keep tinkering with this thing, and if no progress follows I will try your card. Thank you both for your helpful suggestion.

Best, John

[John H]

As an addendum, in case anyone with similar x64 issues should follow this thread in future: After I downloaded and installed the new driver, Vista popped up a window saying something to the effect that the installation might not have succeeded. It then offered to rejigger the installation according to some scheme -- steps not specified.

In the first few attempted installations, which failed, I said okay, and let it do its thing.

This time I guessed what was going on. Vista saw a 32 bit install program, and wanted to pull it in under a 32-bit compatibility umbrella. This would not have helped the 64 bit drivers I am trying to install. So this time I declined Vista's kind offer to reconfigure the software. And ultimately, the installation of the TV tuner worked.

You have to wonder, after the fact, if maybe some of the earlier, bizarre, failed installations went straight off the track at this very point.

On another thread in this forum, folks are discussing the benefits of 64 bit vs 32 bit operating systems.

I am speechless on this topic.