Re: WinTV-PVR

["Andy Powell" <ukha@xxxxxxx>]

Folks,

how does the sytem below spec out for use as a PVR

1x AOpen Bigtower ATX, 300Watt blue (HQ08A)
1x Thermaltake Chrome Orb AMD DUO462 socket A tot 1.5 Ghz
1x Thunderbird 1400 Mhz (266mhz)
1x Sony 3,5" Diskdrive 1.44Mb
1x Asus V7700 GeForce2 Pro 64 MB TV-Out
2 x Maxtor 80Gb HDD ATA100 5400RPM
1x 98  Maxtor 60Gb HDD ATA100 5400RPM
1x 265  Logitech Cordless Desktop iTouch
1x 83  MSI K7T Pro266 Master Raid, FCPGA, 2xDIMM, 3xDDR, 5xPCI     ( http://www.msi.com.tw/products/mainboard/mainboard.php?model=MS-6380%20v2.0
)
1x 409  Dane-Elec Dimm 512Mb SDram PC133
1x Hauppauge Win/TV PVR


As Q. will be able to atest here in Holland companies do something called
PC Prive Project. Basically you can trade some of your holiday (spread of 3
years if required) to buy yourself a
PC...as I still have 25 days left I'm thinking of 'cashing' some in.

any thoughts on the selected hardware above???

Thanks

Andy


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On 18/10/01 at 17:33 Jon Bhargava wrote:

>I have the WinTV PVR USB
>This works very well, it has antennae & video inputs & i have
'recorded' a
>few video recordings onto my computer - the quality at VCD level is
fairly
>good & you have the option to record at higher bitrates.
>
>The 'recording' does take about 10 seconds to fire up when the button
is
>pressed & there is also about1 1 second delay in the decoding time.
>
>The only real problem is a very slight, but annoying distortion of
sound at
>high frequencies - adjusting any of my desktop audio properties does
not
>seem to help. The problem seems to be with th unit itself as it occurs
with
>both TV & VCR recordings.
>
>All in all it's acceptable but not perfect
>
>Cheers
>
>Jon Bhargava
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Andy Powell" <ukha@xxxxxxx>
>To: <ukha_d@xxxxxxx>
>Sent: Thursday, October 18, 2001 11:32 AM
>Subject: [ukha_d] WinTV-PVR
>
>
>>
>> http://www.hauppauge.com/html/wintvpvr_datasheet.htm
>>
>> Did we cover this already? Has anyone any experience... sounds a
>> little too good to be true!
>>
>> Andy
>>
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