Re: PC TV Card

["yhkeppy" <keith@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

As an alternative, does anyone have any experience of the Black Gold
digital TV cards that they could recount? I'm considering an
installation of MCE2005 with a pair of their Digital cards....

Cheers,

Keith



--- In ukha_d@xxxxxxx, "big_red_frog" <atod@r...> wrote:
>
> Be very careful what you choose!
>
> I have a PVR 350 and even running direct and using a registry hack
to
> remove the caching there is an echo delay (250ms maybe) on the
output
> that is obvious if you have another "direct" tv on.
>
> Without this hack it is 3 seconds+ behind the signal.
>
> With XPMCE this delay is unavoidable, hence small print warnings
> about not being compatible with video consoles, unless you are an
> ultra video ninja and can react 3 seconds into the future!
>
> I think this is common with modern cards strongly targeted at PVR.
>
> I did have an old Hauppauge card that seemed to be as good as
> realtime, ie no echo effect with second TV.
>
> I would advise a lurk on an xbox forum to find the best solution.
>
> --- In ukha_d@xxxxxxx, Ho Yin Ng <yahoogroups@h...> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Can anyone recommend a TV card that allows you to record TV
streams
> onto
> > your computer like the Tivo.
> >
> > In addition are there any that enables you to plug an Xbox in
and
> use my
> > computer monitor as a TV?
> >
> > I take it a hardware based encoding device is worth the money
> compared to a
> > software based device?
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Ho Yin