This is a PCI agenda which I purchased from The Glow Lounge to complete my Windows Media centermost PC (for which I shall be autograph a 'how to' at a after date) to abode in my active allowance to booty over from my dvd player, VCR, accepted alternation freeview tuner and hi-fi. It amount about £105 which you may anticipate is a bit big-ticket but I shall explain the affidavit for my best later.
What's In The Box?
PCI agenda x1
Drivers CD x1
MCE alien ascendancy x1
Infra Red Cable x1
Small anatomy agency Bracket x1
Instructions x1
Analogue Input Cable x1
Video Studio 8 x1
USB Cable x1
Audio Cable x1
Installation
Installation, as with best PCI cards, is a relativley accessible action accouterment you chase the instructions provided. One affair to accede in the adjustment of the agenda in your computer is that it can become absolutely hot, address this in apperception I placed the agenda at the basal of my arrangement so that it was abroad anatomy the cartoon agenda because I didn't appetite the cartoon agenda and tuner to mutually barter calefaction and potentially accident anniversary other.
One affair that I do, and it is alone my preference, is avoid the disciplinarian CD that comes with any agenda such as this and download the latest drivers from the manufacturers website for 2 reasons; 1) sometimes the agenda or whatever has been sat on the shelf for months and in that time the architect has already appear several updates. 2) back downloading the software from the manufacturer's website you accept alone the software you charge as against to all the clutter that is usually installed with the drivers CD, I'm talking about things like infuriating toolbars or adware that comes array with software that helps to apathetic bottomward your PC. Like I said this is alone my preference.
This is by no agency the cheapest DVBT (Digital Video advertisement Terrestrial) tuner agenda out there I but chose it because it had assertive functions which I anticipation were capital to arete the move from a standalone agenda earthbound tuner to a Windows Media centermost based television. The aboriginal claim is that it had to be a bifold tuner so that I could watch one affairs while recording another. The additional claim is that it had to be a HD (High Definition) card, so that it would still assignment back HD television starts to be advertisement in the UK, and of advance back I advancement to a huge HD television or projector!
One affair that afraid me about this agenda is the affection of the alien ascendancy that comes with it. Usually with things like this the architecture of the alien ascendancy seems to be an reconsideration and is able at best, this is definitley not the case with the Dvico card. The alien ascendancy is chunky, able-bodied built, and absolutely feels like a able remote! I accept to acknowledge I don't use the alien that comes with the card, I use the alien that comes with Logitech S510 Cordless Desktop purelybecause the annal caster on the alien makes it quicker to cross menus. If I hadn't already bought this cordless desktop again I would definitley be blessed with the remte that Dvico supplies.
I accept acclimated the TV software that came with the agenda Briefly but did not acquisition it as acceptable or as automatic to use as Windows Media centermost 2005, whilst I anticipate that in the absence of Windows Media centermost the supplied software would do the job. One affair I accept yet to try out is the alternation abduction functions of the agenda but if the achievement of the added appearance of the agenda are annihilation to go by again i'm abiding it'll do absolutely as it says on the tin!
I've been application this agenda with Windows Media centermost 2005 for about 3 months now and I can say that this agenda has performed after a hitch.
Key Features
Watch One approach While Recording Another
Watch DVB-T agenda TV Programs on Your PC
Picture in Picture (PIP) & Multi-view Function
Record TV programs to adamantine drive as DVD/ MPEG2 format
Scheduled recording from Hibernation/Stand-by/PC-off mode
Pause and epitomize alive TV shows (Time-shifting function)
Analog video abduction and recording in digital
High-resolution still angel capture
Compatible with Microsoft Windows XP Media centermost Edition 2005
Low CPU burning with DxVA SW decoder
EPG (Electronic affairs Guide)
Supports agenda Teletext & Subtitle (excluding U.K.)
Low contour anatomy agency for abbreviate PC
Supports HD-to-DVD or Divx architecture conversion
Supports ability up as PME
Supports analytic approach number
Full action bittersweet alien contro
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Specifications
I/O Connections 1 x Antenna Input
1 x USB Port
1 x SVHS/ 1 x Composite Video Input
1 x Internal Stereo Sound Port
1 x IR alien ascendancy Port
Minimum arrangement Requirements Windows ME, Windows XP, Windows 2000
1 x USB2.0 Port and 1 x PCI Slot
DxVA based VGA Cards
Pentium3 800MHz ( ATI Radeon Series )
Non-DxVA based VGA Cards
Pentium4 1.6GHz with 128M memory
Drivers Cypress FX2 drivers
Conexant CX2388x drivers
DViCO's own tuner/BDA driver
DViCO's own bifold HDTV decoder( abounding s/w approach & DxVA mode)
Conclusion
Not the cheapest agenda Tv tuner agenda on the market, but if you're austere about architecture a appropriate Home Theater PC (HTPC) with a lot of features, again this agenda is able-bodied account the consideration. The alone affair absolution this agenda bottomward is the arranged TV software, but if you're planning to use Windows Media centermost 2005 again you won't accept a problem.
I did accept a slight botheration installing the bittersweet cable that came with this card, this is due to the actuality that the rear aperture openings on my case (thermaltake armor) are hardly abate than usual, acceptation that accession of the bittersweet jack bung was rather tricky. Once installed the bittersweet action formed perfectly.
johnsreviews rating: 9/10
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