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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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TV and Radio on your computer
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Pros: Remote Control, Fairly Inexpensive, Record TV to your hard drive
Cons: There are models with better/more features in same price range
The Bottom Line:
Its a basic tuner card for watching/recording TV and FM radio. But for the same price there are better models available.
I recently got into this phase of turning my computer into a total multimedia machine. I got this card because it was the cheapest one that came with TV/FM radio and a remote (which really comes in handy). The card was simple to install and I quickly had it up and running. The FM reception is fantastic, but it only allows for simple stereo sound, only sends signal to the front two speakers. This occurs with the TV function as well. Maybe there is a way to fix this by playing with the settings, but I haven't been able to do so. The TV quality is decent, I'm only using a regular receiver, no cable hookup. Even with a good signal, I think picture quality is not as good as on an actual television. This probably varies depending on the quality of your monitor. I have noticed that applications slow down a bit when I leave the TV screen on in the desktop while working on other things. I've used the record function, and it works fairly well, you can either record instantly or set a specific time to start recording. Interestingly enough, when I play back the recorded file in Windows Media Player, I get sound through all my speakers. All in all, its a decent tv card, but I would probably get a different brand next time. The Leadtek Winfast tuner card is roughly the same price but comes with some useful additional features like picture in picture and time shift (pause it to go to the bathroom, it'll pick up where you left off).
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