Hello there,

I have a PC that I am currently upgrading with the following components:

Motherboard - Gigabyte GA-8I915P Duo Pro L775 1PEG 2DDR2 4D SATA
CPU - Intel P4 550 HT Skt 775 ( 3.4GHz 800MHz 1MB )
HDD - HITACHI DESKSTAR 7K400 400GB 7200RPM 8MB SATA

I am trying to buy a graphics card that will suit the applications
that I intend to run in the future and also allow me to use the PC as
a quasi-media centre.  The graphics card has to be PCI Express, as
this is what the motherboard dictates.

 - I intend to use Adobe Premiere Pro and Adobe Photoshop CS
 - In the fullness of time, I will be editing high-definition video
and would like a card that would be able to output to a display at
1920 x 1080 interlaced
 - I am located in the UK and would like to be able to plug in my
coaxial aerial feed to the card and use the card as a TV tuner
 - I would also like the ability to record programmes onto the hard
drive using it as a PVR
 - I have seen articles relating to cards such as the "All In Wonder"
(ATI) but have become a bit confused trying to assimilate all the data
and work out whether it will do all the other things that I require of
it.  However, I not only preconceptions about which is the best card.
 - I am not hugely price conscious but would hope that I could buy a
card for less than 300 UK pounds
 - The card should have a VGA and a DVI output
 - I think it should also have DIVO, from what I have read so far
 - I also think, bearing in mind what I intend to use the card for,
that it should be able to do DivX, MPEG 1/2/4 and WMV9 .
 - also, I'm not sure whether any of these cars would come with a
remote-control unit.

I am also open to suggestions that it might not be contained all in
one card, and that I might have to look at the solution that
encompasses a couple of things, a card just being one of those. 
However, it may be that someone who is on top of all this will be able
to suggest a card that can do these things from experience or market
knowledge.

Many thanks.

This should be close to what you are looking for. 

Personal Cinema FX 5700

Performance 
  NVIDIA GeForce FX 5700  
  425 MHz GPU  
  4 Pixel Pipelines  
  400 MHz RAMDAC  
    
Memory 
  128 MB, 128 bit DDR  
  550 MHz (effective)  
  8.8 GB/s Memory Bandwidth  
    
Interface 
  AGP 8X 
  DVI-I, Breakout Box 
    
Resolution & Refresh  
  240 Hz Max Refresh Rate  
  2048 x 1536 x 32bit x 85 Hz Max Analog 
  1600 x 1200 Max Digital 
    
Requirements 
  Minimum of a 250 Watt power supply. 

http://www.evga.com/products/moreinfo.asp?pn=128-A8-N331-AX

Thanks David, but I think this is AGB8X and I need a PCI-Express board.

Cheers

well if you got the money there is one nvidia 6800 that has pci-x. 
but it might take a while to find one...cause they are not that
popular cause of the price.  i have a nvicia 6600 pci-x and it runs
great.  and i think it has tv tuner possiblites...i haven't looked
into it.  it also supports high def. and has vga and dvi outputs.  
hope this all helps!

Don't worry about DVI and VGA. Some cards come with only DVI but
normally have a DVI to VGA adaptor included. Most modern graphics card
have dual head.

All in Wonder cards tend to have only ONE output though and not
suitable for dual monitors (unlike earlier All in Wonder versions).

>>it should be able to do DivX, MPEG 1/2/4 and WMV9

This is not a feature of the card. You'd use software to convert from
one format to the other. The AIW card gives you a TV in feature and
facility to "read" the signal from your TV aerial. It doubles as a
graphics card - and a bad one at that. It has some cheap bundled video
editing software.

It's never a good idea to have too much on one device and there are
numerous issues with WDM problems on multipurpose cards (starting with
the 1 MB Diamond Edge 3D multipurpose card from about 10 years ago).
My solution would be to use a normal graphics card (take your pick
from available PCI express cards), an EXTERNAL PVR like Hauppauge
WinTV PVR 350, and a proper video editing card like a Matrox RT.X 10.
(Externals are better than internal - just trust me on that)

Take a tip from people who specialise in video editing PCs. Browse
through the products they sell and what kind of parts they use in
combination with what other parts. That may give you some ideas. You
could start here:
http://www.bestpricecomputers.ltd.uk/ent/video_editing.htm or their
products page: http://www.bestpricecomputers.ltd.uk/pro/Video_Editing_Dual_Processor_Computer_Workstations.asp

Forgot to say:

Adobe Premiere is an expensive package BUT it comes free with some
video editing cards like the Matrox RT.X 10 and RT.X100. Since the
RT.X10 costs about £300 you are actually getting paid to take the FREE
copy of Premiere!! :-) (Yes, it's Premiere Pro 1.5 - the latest
version)

If you are not skilled at Video editing etc why not try an all-in-one
external box from Pinnacle for example, see US site 
http://www.newegg.com/app/viewproductdesc.asp?description=14-144-028&DEPA=0

This mostly matches your spec.
This would save you a lot of money while you experiment.

I use an Amilo laptop for video editing with a 64bit ready processor.
I believe the future for video editing will eventually be 64bit
architecture.

Also take a look at www.mediachance.com and look at their DVD Lab Pro
if you want to create video DVDs. You can download a 30 day demo for
free (I'm not an affiliate). This will get you into good habits for
file types etc for stereo sound and high quality video files. Lots of
'any file' software teaches bad habits.