Pinnacle PCTV Pro (210100209) Video Capture

Pros: Picture, Sound Quality, Stereo DBX, Connectors for Audio, S-Video,Video, RF 125 Cable Ready Tuner
Cons: Remote, Slow IR Serial Com port and PCTV Software and Drivers

PCTV PRO (Pinnacle PCTV PRO with Stereo DBX) Capture Audio and Video the easy way through your PC by Albert Ashton I personally use PCTV PRO daily; to capture cable broadcast TV (audio and video media) onto the PC using Intervideo WinDVR 3 ...

Pros: Easy set up and use. Cool scheduler interface. Records in stereo! Nice remote.
Cons: No FM radio bundled. Picture quality could be better.

I received this dandy little device for Christmas. I specifically wanted something that recorded in stereo. Within about 10 minutes of installation, I was already recording and scheduling off-cable programs. Also, I hooked an SVHS VCR up to the PCI card ...

Pros: Easy Installation,Remote,Watch TV and VHS on PC, good for VHS/TV to DVD converting.
Cons: No Extention cables, Need TV near,Remote can be hard to configure.

I bought this product to convert my VHS tapes into DVDs. And this card served that purpose perfectly. For one it is very easy to install, all must do is open your tower case and stick it in a free PCI slot. Second, even if you don't read the instructio ...

Pros: Cheap at $40 after rebates.
Cons: Couldn't get timeshift, MPEG-2, or Burn to anything. Techsupp says I have wrong software.

This product was impossible for me to get working properly on my Medion PC running XP. Check out this exchange with technical support. My next tuner card will have hardware MPEG-2 encoding (i.e. Adaptec's VideoH series). Notice it took technical suppor ...

Pros: Fairly easy to install. Good Software
Cons: Not able to generate smooth video on 2.4G PC w/1.5meg RAM & 36G SCSI drive

If you are looking for a capture card that will record video & audio from a TV or cable signal, this is a good choice. It has an application called Vision that makes it easy to choose a channel and record the signals through Scheduler or the click of a...

Pros: The only solution i found,after trying lots of software, was CHRIS TV.
Cons: Chris TV: Simple, no tricks, superb image, but itīs not for free.

PCTV Vision itīs just the worst software piece that ever came to my hands. I have tied everything. Every forum, every possible solution, but it doesn`t work as it`s supposed to.
Main Problems: Audio out of sync, bad image quality ( donīt tell me that it`s due to my cable signal quality, because it isn`t), once unninstalled it is impossible to reinstall unless i format the machine( and i`ve tried Regclean and other cleaning progs out there).
There are too many bugs for the price. And pinnacle does not give a shi*. Just read the foruns.
About the Pinnacle support, I really don,t know what to say. The worst support i have ever seen.-----P4 3.0Ghz-Asus P4C800 Deluxe-MSI FX 5600Ultra-1024Mg DDR 400 Dual