newbie to this site looking for advice

[bladerunner]

I have an acer aspire E series with windows7 ult fresh install, onboard gforce 6100 256mb video card, amd 64 cpu 3500+ at 2.21ghz, one gig ram, one open pci-e 16x and 2 open pci slots running in 32 bit environment...

I would like to use this as a pvr to record from my dish net set top box.
I am looking for a good inexpensive tuner or video input device to accept an svideo cable
I figure that's the best source for my setup, since my only other choice at the moment is coax

I mainly want it to record what I am watching when I press the record button on my pc remote, but it would be nice if it could change the channel on my receiver and record on its own.


Any suggestions?  I plan to back my recordings up due to 120 gig hdd so I know I dont want to record with media center, which I thought I did want to do until I found this site.  I would hate to record something and not be able to move it or stream it to my network.

[Craig]

HVR 1600 is a good one. This one comes with everything you need to control the STB in Windows 7.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16815116010&cm_re=hvr_1600-_-15-116-010-_-Product

[Miller]

Windows MediaCenter can be streamed. It just depends on what you want to stream to and what kind of network setup you have going on.