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Noozer
NONE of them.
Get a Hauppauge PVR-150MCE card.
You want a card that does MPEG2 compression in HARDWARE.
Get a Hauppauge PVR-150MCE card.
You want a card that does MPEG2 compression in HARDWARE.
Noozer said:NONE of them.
Get a Hauppauge PVR-150MCE card.
You want a card that does MPEG2 compression in HARDWARE.
Noozer said:NONE of them.
Get a Hauppauge PVR-150MCE card.
You want a card that does MPEG2 compression in HARDWARE.
Tal,
I've had the WinFast TV2000 XP Deluxe for a couple of years. The original
software had a lot of problems but all the problems I had with the original
software have been fixed in the latest software upgrades. The only problem I
have now it that the remote no longer works. However, that may be a
mechanical problem caused by dropping it. Other than that I'm happy with the
card given the little use I make of it.
Yeah but unlike alot of the £30/$30 ones, its not a software one.It's price is more then twice
Conor Turton said:Yeah but unlike alot of the £30/$30 ones, its not a software one.
TV tuners are like modems, there's software ones and hardware. I've
just had my first experience of a software one and it is shite. Picture
freezes everytime I fire up an app or load a new webpage in the browser
and this is on a 3.2GHz/1GB RAM system.
Yeah but unlike alot of the £30/$30 ones, its not a software one.
TV tuners are like modems, there's software ones and hardware. I've
just had my first experience of a software one and it is shite. Picture
freezes everytime I fire up an app or load a new webpage in the browser
and this is on a 3.2GHz/1GB RAM system.
I had a 9800SE AIW, not a standalone card. Never had an issue with it.I'll mainly use it for watching TV, and very ocasionally recording it.
So, loading other applications at the same time is not an issue.
But, still I'm learning something new here
I guess ATI TV wonder is a "software" one too, isn't it ?
I had no problems with it at all.
It died with my old PIII CPU, MB, 40GB HDD (Still under waranty , CDR,
DVD, PSU because of some electric problems
On Mon, 11 Apr 2005 16:59:06 GMT, "GuessWho"
A lot of remotes have a rubber number pad that seems to
degrade after a time as evidenced by a gooey liquid between
the contacts and the circuit board. In such cases
disassembling the remote and simply, gently washing the
rubber keypad in warm detergent and wiping the circuit board
with a paper towel might help... or maybe it really did
break when dropped, but I suspect it'd take a really hard
impact to damage it enough that it wasn't reasonably easy to
fix.
Tal Fuchs said:I'll mainly use it for watching TV, and very ocasionally recording it.
So, loading other applications at the same time is not an issue.
But, still I'm learning something new here
I guess ATI TV wonder is a "software" one too, isn't it ?
I had no problems with it at all.
It died with my old PIII CPU, MB, 40GB HDD (Still under waranty , CDR,
DVD, PSU because of some electric problems
Paul Murphy said:That's the most common use for such cards. TV Wonders used in conjunction
with a Radeon graphics card (along with All In Wonder Radeons and higher)
do have a special feature called "ThruView" which allows you to watch TV
on a semi-transparent window which can also be looked through to see
what's underneath. This is handy for those wanting to do other things such
as web surf at the same time.
The TV Wonder, TV Wonder VE and TV Wonder Pro are all software encoding
cards, the newest ATI Tuner card along with the eHome Wonder card - the TV
Wonder Elite, is a hardware MPEG2 encoding card but both use different
interface software (Windows Media Centre Edition 2005 or a special version
of Cinemaster software in the case of the Elite and MCE only for the eHome
Wonder) to display the picture while all the rest rely on ATIs Multimedia
Centre for that.
Have you tried the TV Tuner card in another machine with a fresh install
of the drivers and software for it (asking someone knowledgeable to help
if need be) - possibly the problems it exhibited were temporary due to the
failure of other components after the power surge? I'd definitely be
checking it over carefully before deciding to bin it.
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