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Is the philips 7134 based tuners that much better...
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Not really.
If you have a good VCR with S-Video out (or S-Video out on your cable reciever) you're a lot better off avoiding the card's tuner completely by using the VCR as your tuner and running the S-Video line to your capture card's S-Video in.
I'm aware that it's not always a practical solution (apparently not everyone has a rec room set up for multimedia editing and serving), but it does yield better results.
I personally haven't done much capturing with consumer level products for a while (aside from helping my nephew with his Leadtek WinFast TV2000 XP Deluxe) so my advice may be outdated with the latest tuners.
By the way, my nephew ended up dumping his LeadTek for a Hauppauge WinTV-dbx(WINTV401) because of some driver issues he experienced, and has been dishing out VHS to DVD conversions steadily since then.