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I bought a cheap-o television tuner card on eBay this week, and I received it today. It's an AverMedia AverTV PVR-150, which I thought would be at least somewhat compatible with the Hauppauge! PVR-150. Hauppauge! seems to make the gold standards for these sorts of things, and their cards work in the 64-bit version of Windows XP, which my desktop computer runs.

Well, that is not how that works. I've tried every driver under the sun in order to get this thing to work, and it just won't. The 64-bit operating system is the problem.

So, it's not really a huge deal, since I'll probably just toss it in a different computer and install the 32-bit version of Windows there, but I'm really tired of having hardware not work simply because it's not compatible with (rather, the manufacturer didn't bother to write drivers compatible with...) modern technology.

Make & Model: AverMedia AverTV PVR-150
Vendor: 4444
Device: 0016
Subsystem: C0351461
Rev: 01
Chipset: Internext Compression, Inc., (Conexant) CX23416 iTVC16

Blah.