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I am looking to buy a tv tuner capture card for my pc. I have a kind of old 1.8ghz P4 with 512mb of ram. first can anyone recommend a PCI card that has a remote and will do good capture on an old machine like mine? I would probably never be using the computer when its recording anything so It would have almost full use of cpu and ram. also the quality of the capture does not have to be dvd quality because I will probably just record the show, watch it once then delete it. If it records at vhs quality that`s fine with me. second do they make any agp or PCI video cards that can be used as a GPU and a video tunercapture card. If so any recommendations on one that has remote. last what software do you use or recommend, the freeware kind would be the best but if you know of or use one that beats the socks of all the rest please do tell Thanks so much for any help you can give me