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Hauppauge WinTV PVR-350 (990) Video CaptureWinTV-PVR-350 puts TV watching under your control! Watch what you want, when you want. Watch TV on your PC screen, in a window or full...
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WinTV-PVR-350 puts TV watching under your control! Watch what you want, when you want. Watch TV on your PC screen, in a window or full screen, digitally record your TV shows to your PCs hard disk, or pause live TV and create your own instant replay. You can even burn your home videos or TV shows onto a CD-ROM or DVD.??The WinTV-PVR-350 supports data rates up to 12Mbits/sec, so you decide how much hard disk space your videos will consume. A typical one-hour TV show will take 2 Gigabytes of hard disk space. Create your own Digital Video Recorder!??After recording your videos to your PCs hard disk, you can play them back on your TV set with the WinTV-PVR-350's hardware MPEG decoder. The hardware MPEG decoder takes no system resources while playing videos, so your computer continues to run at full speed.??WinTV-PVR-350 uses a highly integrated MPEG-1/2 encoder, compressing your videos while you watch TV on your PC screen. It also has a built-in hardware MPEG decoder with video output, ...
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2 Reviews from Shopping.com
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inexpensive HQ mpeg 1/2
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Pros: Real time mpeg 1/2 encoding Works great, when finally installed.
Cons: Frumpy software, took time to learn to use.
The Bottom Line:
GREAT CARD. You will NOT be dissappointed.
I chose this card because all the USB 2 versions I tried Sucked and I did not want one built onto my video card.
The installation was fussy because it conflicts with other hardware. Downloaded drivers fixed this.
This card produced video that looked great coming from my direct TV box, and the output to TV looked lossless. Some time I would forget what the source was, file or live TV.
It has a 1 - 2 second delay, but this is expected since the card has to encode then decode the video in real time. This card is NOT GOOD for playing video games on your computer. But this is not what I bought it for.
I do not use the included DVD software because I have other methods for mastering the files to ~whatever format and my APEX ad-660 can play the files directly from a hard drive.
If you do not need the TV out or FM radio in, get the 250 since its $50 cheaper. I guarantee that if you get the 350, you will be using its TV out feature. Like a Tivo but without the on screen stuff.
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