Pinnacle PCTV PRO?

by **ThE ScReW** on Tue Mar 16, 2004 11:18 pm

I still havnet bought a tv card.
What do you think of the pinnacle pctv pro card ?

THX for the NFO

http://www.pinnaclesys.com/docloader_n. ... vision_id=

by **rhinoman** on Tue Mar 16, 2004 11:36 pm

This is the best respected in the uk http://www.nebula-electronics.com/infor ... ?Code=0001 I dont know if it will suit your needs, digital free to air tv and radio, pvr and a client server architecture for streaming across a local lan.

by **ThE ScReW** on Tue Mar 16, 2004 11:41 pm

rhinoman wrote:This is the best respected in the uk http://www.nebula-electronics.com/infor ... ?Code=0001 I dont know if it will suit your needs, digital free to air tv and radio, pvr and a client server architecture for streaming across a local lan.

That card looks just fantastic but can i get it here in belgium?

by **rhinoman** on Tue Mar 16, 2004 11:42 pm

Getting it wont be a problem but I have no idea if it will work, why not email their support people, they are suppose to be really helpful.

by **oneman** on Tue Mar 16, 2004 11:51 pm

The big thing to look for is hardware encoding. I have a Hauppauge PVR-350 and it works great, only uses about 5% of my cpu. The TV out works great on it.

by **CocoonTech.com** on Mon May 03, 2004 1:19 pm

I have a Pinnacle PCTV Tuner, great card, good quality, just make sure you realize this card doesn't have onboard mpeg2 encoding/decoding (such as the PVR series), so it will use a lot of your CPU to record your shows (which isn't a big deal usually).