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Pinnacle PCTV Pro PCI Card/Direct Burn/Remote/Stereo TV/FM Radio

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  • Watch TV and listen to stereo radio on your PC even while using other applications
  • High quality, stereo TV and Radio recording
  • Burn VCDs, SVCDs, or DVDs with your CD or DVD burner
  • Pause or replay video while recording a live show
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  • Item Weight: 971 g
  • Boxed-product Weight: 908 g
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  • Item model number: 202261089
  • ASIN: B000069JU5
  • Date first available at Amazon.co.uk: 1 Jan 2002
  • Average Customer Review: 2.2 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 139,505 in Electronics & Photo (See Bestsellers in Electronics & Photo)

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Pinnacle PCTV Pro PCI Card/Direct Burn/Remote/Stereo TV/FM Radio

Pinnacle PCTV Pro PCI Card/Direct Burn/Remote/Stereo TV/FM Radio

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Manufacturer's Description
Pinnacle PCTV PRO is a fully featured PCI card to watch TV and listen to FM Stereo radio on a PC with ultimate quality. Powerful digital features include recording of TV programme or audio/video streams in MPEG-1/2 formats, allowing you to burn direct to a CD or DVD without having to convert, and Timeshifting to let you pause or replay while recording a live show. Pinnacle’s Webtext technology allows to instantly view Teletext pages and connect to the associated internet pages. Pinnacle PCTV PRO includes an Infrared Remote control and comes with Pinnacle T-Rex multimedia file converter and a trial version of Pinnacle Studio 7 video editing software.

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15 of 15 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars If you want high quality...try another card, 13 Nov 2003
This card promisses some great features, and SOME of them are real !
The software and drivers provided with the card are REALLY BAD. The tuner is very slow, the image quality is far from good, but you can always use 3rd party software in order to get a superior image quality. (I found it very strange, as some of them are FREEWARE !! I would think as natural for Pinnacle to provide better drivers/software). It's a hard work of trial and error to find the correct drivers and software on the web :(
The provided real-time software encoder gives you very poor results on VCD (MPEG-1), and with my Athlon XP 1800 i can forget about capturing at a SVCD resolution (MPEG-2). It's almost unnecessary to say that the DVD encoding resolution is like a dream...that doesn't come true. I loose a lot of frames and i only see the interlaced lines.

I could recommend this card to anyone who wants to have a tiny window to watch the news while doing something important on your computer, but it has a buggy software that has a very strange behaviour like swicthing off the sound, or raising the volume to insane levels just because you touched on something which had nothing to do with it !
I tried more than one unit, and my dealer was kind enough to try it on another computer (Pentium 4, 1 Gb RAM, better power supply, another set-up and location) and he still doesn't know the answers to some common problems.

At this price point, i would try another card and i wouldn't recommend it to myself !

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77 of 84 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars Demands too much processor power, 15 Nov 2002
By Colin J. Mccormick (Plymouth, Devon United Kingdom) - See all my reviews
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Now I know why I should have bought a video capture card with hardware MPEG2 compression. Even with an overclocked Athlon 1600+ and heaps of memory and fast hard disc, my machine can't keep up with MPEG2 compression at any resolution. MPEG1 is OK but then won't make DVD's. Get problems also with sound and picure getting out of sync. Instructions give no help, they are badly translated and vague. Remote control was useless since it requires a spare serial port which I don't have. A huge dissappointment from start to finish.
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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars pctv cards, 1 Jun 2004
By lee brown (brighton, east sussex United Kingdom) - See all my reviews
I bought a new PCTV Rave card so that I could record my old VHS tapes to DVD. Fitted it up no problem, and I can watch tv fine. The problem is recording. After a few minutes the audio and video are well out of sync! I've tried loads of different software, and it all has the same problem. I've tried emailing pinnacle, but they dont seem to want to know, and judging by the forum it seems to be a common problem. This is the second pinnacle card i've bought ( must be mad ) and this problem always happens.....................
lets just say that for watching tv or video on your pc it's great, but just dont expect to be able to record anything worth watching back.
This is the last time I trust pinnacle..............
(unless anyone has any idea as to how to fix this problem?)
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