TV Tuner in Vista

I hope I haven't missed a thread about this, but we will give it a shot.

I have an ATI TV Wonder USB 2.0 TV Tuner. The hardware itself it not so bad. It provides nice picture, has plenty of inputs, and for watching TV, and pausing live TV, things like that it is great (not so great for Video Games). I just upgraded to Vista. I haven't tried the old XP software in Vista yet, has anyone else? Even if I find that they work, does anyone know of any better TV programs? The ATI software is terrible (I have tried GBPVR and it didn't work, and Beyond TV was way to bloated for my preferences).

Alternatively - is there a better express card or USB TV Tuner that would be worth looking into? I just want nice software to be able to watch and record TV with. Nothing too special, but nothing crappy either. I have Vista Business, so no media center, so I would need a well priced good TV Tuner that has or is compatible with decent software.

 

I don't yet have a TV Tuner card, but can't you use Windows Media Center rather than the ATI software? Once the card and drivers are installed, I think it's just a matter of opening WMC and letting it auto detect the card.

Again, I don't have a TV tuner card so I could be way off here.

 

I'm using a Hauppage WinTV-PVR USB 2 TV tuner in my HP Pavilion dv2000z laptop running Vista Home Premium; when I first connected it, it automatically recognized it and installed the proper drivers straight from Windows Update, never had any problems with it at all, bottom line, works great in Vista, especially in Windows Media Center, integrates great

 

I don't have Media Center (Vista Business), and I can't upgrade to get it, which means I have to have third party software. I will look into the WinTV-PVR, thanks.

 

You can upgrade to Ultimate to get the MCE functionality.

 

My copy is through MSDNAA, so the upgrade is blocked (I am pretty sure). I think I will just get a separate Media Center Program.