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Chris Phillipo
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Sat Dec 18, 2004 1:10 am Post subject:
Re: Need your advice on TV tuner cards |
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In article <1103203159.106640.180670@z14g2000cwz.googlegroups.com>,
sonofacrab@hotmail.com says...
| Quote: | Subject: Re: Need your advice on TV tuner cards
From: "Lee" <sonofacrab@hotmail.com
Newsgroups: 24hoursupport.helpdesk, rec.video.desktop, alt.comp.periphs.videocards.ati, microsoft.public.windows.mediacenter, comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.misc
JLC, you didn't tell him about the dark scenes!
I am happy with my WinTV 150, this has the same encoding hardware as
the 250 and 350 I believe, only it was a fraction of the cost.
Although it causes me no problems (except having to very occasionally
restart the PC to stop the choppy picture), I am looking around for a
card with improved encoding capabilities. When the light level drops
you lose a lot of detail and depth of colour, large parts of the
picture become solid when there should be detail, enough to ruin a
scene, for me anyway.
I was wondering if anyone had compared nVidia's NVTV cards to the WinTV
range, if so, is there any improvement?
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If you are talking about a PVR-150 I think you should take a look at
what your TV is pluged into because that's what is producing the crappy
picture.
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Chris Phillipo
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Sat Dec 18, 2004 1:12 am Post subject:
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In article <DEjwd.1063$Z47.368@newsread2.news.atl.earthlink.net>,
"FLY135" <fly_135(@ hot not not)notmail.com> says...
| Quote: | Subject: Re: Need your advice on TV tuner cards
From: "FLY135" <fly_135(@ hot not not)notmail.com
Newsgroups: 24hoursupport.helpdesk, rec.video.desktop, alt.comp.periphs.videocards.ati, microsoft.public.windows.mediacenter, comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.misc
"Lee" <sonofacrab@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:1103211500.230289.89710@f14g2000cwb.googlegroups.com...
Decoding is fine. The quality of the DVD playback is top notch (I use
the nVidia software MPEG decoder with a FX5700 VGA card).
The problem I think lies in the encoding (WinTV card) as everything is
encoded and written to disk before being decoded and squirted out the
VGA card the same way a DVD is.
You didn't quote my post but if you are refering to my DVD reference I
simply meant that if I recorded from the DVD player I could pause and A/B
compare the dark parts of the scene. No big deal because it probably won't
record Macrovision anyway.
Another interesting quirk with this card is confirmed by technical support.
You can't modify the bitrate and resolution settings except by creating a
*new* profile. After the profile is created you can't modify it. And there
is no support for deleting a profile. You can probably do it in the
registry but this is a silly user interface error. There response was that
they don't support the advanced menu. I have no idea why setting the
bitrate of the recorded MPEG should be an unsupported *advanced* feature.
Still for recording TV shows this card is much better than my Pinnacle PCTV.
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The short answer is that the Hauppauge software is only good for keeping
drink rings off your coffee table. It's best to buy the card bundled
with something useful.
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David Chien
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Sat Dec 18, 2004 1:26 am Post subject:
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ATI or Hauppauge cheap. www.ebay.com has some for <$30.
You may pick one or the other for compatibility with other free PVR
software, eg. MythTv
see
http://www.shspvr.com/
http://www.mythtv.org/
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But either one will come with all the software you need for basic time
shifting and recording/playback from your HD.
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Also, if you have $$, you can look at the latest ATI HDTV tuner card or
the 3rd party HDTV tuner cards on sale at www.ebay.com. Works off
regular antenna broadcasts, and they'll give you even higher quality TV
show recordings. |
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Barry Watzman
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Tue Dec 21, 2004 9:54 am Post subject:
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Unless you want an All-in-Wonder card, I'd go with Hauppauge, the video
quality is beter than ATI.
Knowledge Seeker wrote:
| Quote: | Need your input. I would like to install a TV tuner in my PC. Which brand? And which model?
I do NOT want a USB interface but rather want a card that installs in the inside. I also know that different cards have different chips and that the chip is important but I do not know which chip is the best.
I have seen models from ATI, Hauppauge, Pinnacle, and Leadtek. There may be others. Was planning to wait until next year; however, Circuit City seems to have a good deal on a card this week (but is it the right one?)...http://www.circuitcity.com/ssm/ATI-TV-Wonder--PRO-Remote-Control-Edition--100-703147-/sem/rpsm/oid/96826/rpem/ccd/productDetail.do
Primary purpose is to just be able to watch TV on my monitor, but a close second is to capture video feed to my HD to play back later (either on monitor or on my actual TV).
May want to eliminate commercials but that is not mandatory and am not planning to do anything more complicated with editing.
Do not have a HD TV and will not have one for a couple of years, so I do not need HD capability.
Have a video card that is good enough, so I do not need a All-In-Wonder card (want to stay with separate cards for regular computing and tv).
My PC =
ATI Radeon 9600 XT Video Card
ViewSonic E790 monitor
Second monitor Samsung SyncMaster 192
AMD Athlon XP 2000+
Mobo: ASUS A7V8X REV 1.xx (Bus Clock: 133 MHz)
BIOS: Award Revision 1006 09/13/2002
Windows XP
2 X 256 PC2700 Installed Memory
So, what should I get? Or where should I go to find comparative reviews of the latest and bestest? Tom's seems... out-of-date.
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