Hauppauge Win TV PVR

[Guest]

Hi i'm in the market for a TV card, but also i want to be able to do high quality recordings from the tv. I also have a digital camcorder that i use through firewire to bring in video into my computer. Is the Hauppauge Win TV PVR a good card? It has a TV tuner which is good plus you can record with the built in MPEG 2 encoder. Tho i doubt the encoder will help with the digi camcorder becasue that is being transfer via firewire.

Anyways is this a good card for TV and recording high quality off of the TV into MPEG? The only editing i would do is to eliminate commercials.

thanks

 

[mrtj]

i bought my card for tv capturing. it's a matrox g400 marvel. it captures to mjpeg which is much better quality than mpeg-2. i used to have an all in wonder and the mpeg-2 from that wasnt even close to mjpeg, but then again the pvr has hardware mpeg2 encoding. i think the mjpeg will give you better captures though.

 

[Guest]

Thanks, but I already have a video card GeForce 3. So i'm looking for more of an add in card.

 

[mrtj]

get the pvr. hardware mpeg-2 should be decent. depending on how high the bitrate it lets you cap with though

 

[Mavicator]

Is mpeg-2 on par with whatever Tivo uses?

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[mrtj]

i think that tivo uses mpeg-2 but that is connected direct. dont know how good the pvr is though. get the card and make sure you can return it if you dont like it.

 

[Mavicator]

If the Hauppauge card is equal in video quality to a Tivo system then I'm buying one! Other than the drawback of no deluxe remote control, it seems like a PC-based video recording system would be the way to go. The ability to upgrade your hard drive would give you virtually unlimited record time.

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[mrtj]

there's a discussion about this card on another forum if you want to have a look. it may prove useful. you may want to change your mind about getting the pvr if this is right.

http://www.flexion.org/cgi-bin/UltraBoard/UltraBoard.cgi?action=Read&BID=33&TID=4605&SID=9547

 

[Guest]

i went to that other board and well.. I have no idea what they are saying with VBR and other things. On eof the Main selling points for me is that the PVR has a built in TV tuner. That is what I wanted, but i also wanted to be able record things off the turner ever now and then. So this seems like the thing to get.

Dazzel is just for getting video into a computer if i am not mistaken. So there for I'm still out of a TV turner and I'm not sure if you can record off of a tv tuner with it. Also does dazzel need a PCI slot because as of right now I only have one slot open. I'll have to go invetigate dazzel some more. I've seen it in best buy, but it's like $200 and i've never really pick up the box to look at the specs.