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Using a PC as a VCR

16-01-2003 2:00am

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#2 16-01-2003 3:42am

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The ATI AIW cards come with Windows software that provides VCR-like timed recordings. It can also do Tivo style tricks like pausing live TV. A neat alternative is the Hauppauge WinTV PVR USB. It's got an onboard hardware MPEG2 encoder that can output up to 6Mbit/sec streams at full PAL resolution.

Personally I've yet to come across a TV input card that meets my standards, but then I'm a fussy SOB. It's not the compression that bothers me but the basic digitization from PAL to a raw bitstream. Never seems any better than VHS, and often worse :-(

That said I've not seen the output of ATI's Theater200 based cards yet.

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