Highest Rated Review by the Community
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Jan 26 '04
Pros: Hardware compression is wonderful. Capture and viewing software are primitive, but at least they're reliable.
Cons: Bundled editing software was useless. Occasional hiccups in live TV.
Summary: I've spent the last 2 weeks looking for the best TV/capture card and software. This was the best of the cards I tried, for 2 main reasons: 1. Hardware compression lets you record high quality MPEGs (720x480 resolution, near DVD quality) with ... read more
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Sep 08 '04
Pros: MPEG2 Encoder, S-Video input, Remote Control.
Cons: Expensive, Bad for watching live TV, pain to install, unresponsive support.
Summary: I've had a few different TV cards over the years - and I decided it was time to "move up a notch" and get something better. The PVR-250 seemed to have the right balance of features and performance - plus - the price "looked like it was better than the ... read more
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Sep 19 '03
Pros: Hardware works well, popular card means more support by outside vendors
Cons: The software is atrocious. If you need to timeshift, you'll need third party software.
Summary: This is the second PVR application I've used with my computer. The first was the Creative Labs Digital VCR, which is about 2 years older. Since it's easier(but less fun), I'll address the hardware first. One of the reasons I selected this product is ... read more
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Jul 17 '03
Pros: Great picture, VCR feature is COOL, easy set-up (for me anyway)...
Cons: Software 'hangs' at times but reducing hardware acceleration a bit fixes it
Summary: Did you ever wonder what would happen if you could transport a Pentium-4 computer with no manual bac ... read more
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Jun 13 '03
Pros: Ability to watch TV on your computer, convert Analog video to digital.
Cons: Takes up an additional slot in my computer, no stereo input
Summary: According to TV-Cards.com this PCI card is superior to the USB version of WIN TV. Because the U ... read more
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Jan 21 '03
Pros: Low cost PVR
Cons: Not too easy to setup and use
Summary: Unfortunately the first one of these I tried was defective – no picture or sound. The 2nd one however works fairly well for the price and was fairly easy to install. It’s takes a while to get the hang of using it though – the user interface ... read more
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Oct 13 '02
Pros: Video Recording feature, Pause feature, crisp picture, nice software package
Cons: Poor technical info, difficult to install drivers
Summary: I made the choice of the $150 (retail) WinTV PVR250 over the $40 (retail) TV Wonder, simply because the WinTV PVR250 has hardware mpeg encoding. Now I wonder if it was worth the extra money. I brought it home, and installed it in one of my PC's, and ... read more
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Nov 13 '04
Pros: It does what it should do. Has never crashed on me.
Cons: Installation and debugging is not for novices.
Supplied software and tech support could be better.
Summary: Displays live TV and sound with clarity. Accurately captures VHS and S-VHS input signals. Converts both successfully to MPEG2 format without losing sync sound - even up to 2 hours. There are capture cards alone (without tuners) that cannot do
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Jul 13 '04
Pros: -Widely Supported
-Hardware Encoding
Cons: -can't think of any other then it's more expensive than software based encoding card
Summary: I picked up this card because I wanted hardware encoding since the HTPC machine I am building are left over from my upgrade where it was only a P3 800mhz. People with newer CPUs in the 2ghz range can probably get away with software based capture card.
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Jan 13 '04
Pros: Does what it's supposed to.
Cons: Software stinks; get SageTV!
Summary: This hardware is great; it does what it's supposed to. Single video source input. However, the software that comes with it leaves a lot to be desired. For pure functionality, SageTV is the way to go (www.freytechnologies.com), and the two work
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