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Druncan

Druncan

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Hi everyone and a happy new year!!

Looking to get a TV tuner card for my PC, I've had a bit of a look about, but there doesn't seem to have been much said about them.

Anyone got any reviews/comparisons of the current offerings?

I'm not looking for anything ground breaking, just good picture quality ~£30-£40 would be good.

Many thankings of you.

D.
 
I have been looking at TV Cards on and off and most of them are very much the same in terms of picture quality. The only thing that seems to separate them is the features such as the menu system and whatnot.

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hi.
depends what you are doing with it. i just bought a cheapo card from local computer fair and the picture is excellent, although it is just connected to the sky box through svideo (which most of the cheaper brand cards dont have) and dont know what the tuner is like.
i was watching tv through the vivo connecter on my graphics card but the picture was crap.
so if you are watching through an external box (sky,freeview etc.) then make sure the card has an s-video connector to get best quality.
 
Does the Nova T OR Pinnacle DVB-T (as mentioned in the linked forum thread) support HiDef 1080i?

The Compro VideoMate says it can receive HDTV when they're broadcasting (such as in London the looping BBCHD channel?) and will record it.
A review on this site states the aerial connection is crap and they don't mention the HDTV funcion.

I'm looking for a good video quality recorder that I can edit out the ad breaks/pause during recording like the ATI All in Wonder models.
Final video file output would have to be avi (I have divx encoder) or another high quality mpeg 4 compression format my dvd player would support.
 
hard to say *** compro software will do once hd starts transmitting. as far as im aware it does not install an mp4 codec (or any codec other then mpeg1/2) but no problem to record stream and try to sort out manually later ;)

review link doesnt work, but the picture quality from compro is far from crap. comparing the philips chipset (compro) and ati vivo (RageTheatre200) the compro is far better with svideo/composite input then the ati. rage200 is really old and shows it and i doubt arial picture will be better.

latest software for compro does allow pause durring recording i believe from analogue and any codec you like can be setup for analogue recording. freeview is always mpeg2.

also cyberlink powercinema seems to work ok with my compro T200 card too so if the included software gets annoying, there are others to try ;) Nerovision id liked to have worked, but unfortunatly not.
 
hmm looks like the review site linked to is blocked on these forums!
Aaah! the limitations of being a retail site's fourm far exceeds itself in these circumstances.
PM me for the site address, or just try using google with "Compro VideoMate U3 review".
 
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Druncan said:
Anyone had much expereience with the Hauppauge WinTV Nova-T PCI Freeview TV Tuner?
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I got one of these and picture quality is good with good signal but the hauppage software is crap. Trying to get gb-pvr working with it but having problems setting it up even though its listed as working with the nova-t
 
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