TV Cards rule

[episodic]

I just got my first tv card. Yes it is a lowly Win-Tv Mono - but hey it still rocks!

 

[Bootprint]

Soon you'll move up to a PVR-250 or the like and then most of your disk space will be used up.

 

[episodic]

Originally posted by: Bootprint
Soon you'll move up to a PVR-250 or the like and then most of your disk space will be used up.

Im using snapstream's demo now - and I've already recorded 8 hours worth of stuff today. Thank god for my previously empty 120 gb black friday special.

 

[Schadenfroh]

what is a good hardware tv tuner that will not take up CPU cycles and has TiVo functions?

 

[dman]

Hauppauge WinPVR 250 as mentioned above.

 

[aphex]

I've never been able to get snapstream to run on my main rig. Crashes during install

 

[Bootprint]

Originally posted by: aphex
I've never been able to get snapstream to run on my main rig. Crashes during install

The new version or the old version?

The new version needs stupid .net to run, but will use multiple cards.

 

[episodic]

In recording at medium quality .wmv format (looks fine for me) and I have an Athlon XP 2800 with 640 megs of ram and my cpu resources are under 20% on a constant basis while recording

 

[aphex]

Originally posted by: Bootprint

Originally posted by: aphex
I've never been able to get snapstream to run on my main rig. Crashes during install

The new version or the old version?

The new version needs stupid .net to run, but will use multiple cards.

new version, and i have the latest .net installed as well...

Crashes while setting up the program....

 

[NTB]

Originally posted by: episodic
I just got my first tv card. Yes it is a lowly Win-Tv Mono - but hey it still rocks!

yes, they do. I got one of those cards years ago, when I moved into the dorms at school.

Right now, I'm using a PVR-250 to capture the Twilight Zone marathon on SciFi

Nate

 

[RossMAN]

PVR250 + BeyondTV = TIVO on your PC with NO MONTHLY FEES!

 

[NTB]

Originally posted by: RossMAN
PVR250 + BeyondTV = TIVO on your PC with NO MONTHLY FEES!

What's so good about BeyondTV? Why not just use the WinTV and and the scheduling program that comes with it? That's what I'm doing.

Nate

 

[syconub]

weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee







i <3 tv cards too.

 

[RossMAN]

Originally posted by: NTB

Originally posted by: RossMAN
PVR250 + BeyondTV = TIVO on your PC with NO MONTHLY FEES!

What's so good about BeyondTV? Why not just use the WinTV and and the scheduling program that comes with it? That's what I'm doing.

Nate

BeyondTV rocks.

 

[Bootprint]

Originally posted by: NTB

Originally posted by: RossMAN
PVR250 + BeyondTV = TIVO on your PC with NO MONTHLY FEES!

What's so good about BeyondTV? Why not just use the WinTV and and the scheduling program that comes with it? That's what I'm doing.

Nate

You can schedule a couple of weeks ahead, do searches via snapstream.net for titles/actors/types of shows. And what's really neat is if you schedule a show via Snapstream.net your PC goes out to every hour or so and checks for new show that you might have scheduled.

With the new beyondTv you can use more then 1 PVR card.

 

[mwtgg]

Originally posted by: RossMAN
PVR250 + BeyondTV = TIVO on your PC with NO MONTHLY FEES!

Damn you RossMAN, your endorsements are serving my pocketbook!

 

[0roo0roo]

move up to an hdtv card soon, before summer 05 when they start slappin copy protection compliance on hardware(no more capture). hd cards output looks so sweet compared to standard def ...it will blow ur mind

 

[TwiceOver]

Originally posted by: RossMAN
PVR250 + BeyondTV = NEARLY TIVO on your PC with NO MONTHLY FEES!

Fixed that for ya.

 

[RossMAN]

Originally posted by: mwtgg

Originally posted by: RossMAN
PVR250 + BeyondTV = TIVO on your PC with NO MONTHLY FEES!

Damn you RossMAN, your endorsements are serving my pocketbook!

Fortunately both those deals are DEAD :thumbsup:

 

[mwtgg]

Originally posted by: RossMAN

Originally posted by: mwtgg

Originally posted by: RossMAN
PVR250 + BeyondTV = TIVO on your PC with NO MONTHLY FEES!

Damn you RossMAN, your endorsements are serving my pocketbook!

Fortunately both those deals are DEAD :thumbsup:

Although... I do have a $50 giftcard to Compusa. Hmm, maybe I should buy beyondtv, I'm just playing around with the trial at the moment. Hmm...

 

[RossMAN]

Originally posted by: mwtgg

Originally posted by: RossMAN

Originally posted by: mwtgg

Originally posted by: RossMAN
PVR250 + BeyondTV = TIVO on your PC with NO MONTHLY FEES!

Damn you RossMAN, your endorsements are serving my pocketbook!

Fortunately both those deals are DEAD :thumbsup:

Although... I do have a $50 giftcard to Compusa. Hmm, maybe I should buy beyondtv, I'm just playing around with the trial at the moment. Hmm...

If your CompUSA GC doesn't expire anytime soon I would wait, occasionally they have a $50 rebate on the PVR250 or USB for $149 - $50 = HOT $99.

http://www.compusa.com/product...&amp;Nty=1&amp;Ntk=All

 

[mwtgg]

Originally posted by: RossMAN

Originally posted by: mwtgg

Originally posted by: RossMAN

Originally posted by: mwtgg

Originally posted by: RossMAN
PVR250 + BeyondTV = TIVO on your PC with NO MONTHLY FEES!

Damn you RossMAN, your endorsements are serving my pocketbook!

Fortunately both those deals are DEAD :thumbsup:

Although... I do have a $50 giftcard to Compusa. Hmm, maybe I should buy beyondtv, I'm just playing around with the trial at the moment. Hmm...

If your CompUSA GC doesn't expire anytime soon I would wait, occasionally they have a $50 rebate on the PVR250 or USB for $149 - $50 = HOT $99.

http://www.compusa.com/product...&amp;Nty=1&amp;Ntk=All

They don't expire, you just get docked $2. Thanks for the tip though.

 

[ttown]

Originally posted by: 0roo0roo
move up to an hdtv card soon, before summer 05 when they start slappin copy protection compliance on hardware(no more capture). hd cards output looks so sweet compared to standard def ...it will blow ur mind

I think the card mfgs have been ordered to include the copy protection crap by July 2005.
So do your research to make sure your card isn't ahead of schedule....

 

[RossMAN]

Originally posted by: mwtgg

Originally posted by: RossMAN

Originally posted by: mwtgg

Originally posted by: RossMAN

Originally posted by: mwtgg

Originally posted by: RossMAN
PVR250 + BeyondTV = TIVO on your PC with NO MONTHLY FEES!

Damn you RossMAN, your endorsements are serving my pocketbook!

Fortunately both those deals are DEAD :thumbsup:

Although... I do have a $50 giftcard to Compusa. Hmm, maybe I should buy beyondtv, I'm just playing around with the trial at the moment. Hmm...

If your CompUSA GC doesn't expire anytime soon I would wait, occasionally they have a $50 rebate on the PVR250 or USB for $149 - $50 = HOT $99.

http://www.compusa.com/product...&amp;Nty=1&amp;Ntk=All

They don't expire, you just get docked $2. Thanks for the tip though.

You shouldn't be charged a $2/mo maintenance fee until 6 or 12 months pass though.

 

[mwtgg]

Originally posted by: RossMAN

Originally posted by: mwtgg

Originally posted by: RossMAN

Originally posted by: mwtgg

Originally posted by: RossMAN

Originally posted by: mwtgg

Originally posted by: RossMAN
PVR250 + BeyondTV = TIVO on your PC with NO MONTHLY FEES!

Damn you RossMAN, your endorsements are serving my pocketbook!

Fortunately both those deals are DEAD :thumbsup:

Although... I do have a $50 giftcard to Compusa. Hmm, maybe I should buy beyondtv, I'm just playing around with the trial at the moment. Hmm...

If your CompUSA GC doesn't expire anytime soon I would wait, occasionally they have a $50 rebate on the PVR250 or USB for $149 - $50 = HOT $99.

http://www.compusa.com/product...&amp;Nty=1&amp;Ntk=All

They don't expire, you just get docked $2. Thanks for the tip though.

You shouldn't be charged a $2/mo maintenance fee until 6 or 12 months pass though.

Yeah, I know. It's an old card which my grandfather doesn't need, so he gave it to me.