External TV Tuners/PVR Devices Tested

Posted by CmdrTaco on Thursday December 23, 2004 @06:53AM from the i-want-my-pctv dept.

Solomon writes "TV Tuners for the PC have existed for a long time but with the ever increasing popularity of TiVo-like services and the possibility of replicating such features on your Windows PC with little effort and a small investment, tuners have been getting a lot of attention this year. Today there's three-way shootout posted at TechSpot with products from Digistor, Transcend and a very appealing offer from RTV called the VEG that lets you play consoles in your monitor. Although neither of these devices can match TiVo completely, they do give you a very cheap alternative."

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TV tuners by basic0 · 2004-12-23 07:22 · Score: 5, Insightful

I was interested in TV tuners and PVR software and so forth for a while, but then I realized that being able to watch and record TV on my computer still does nothing to improve the actual content that passes for entertainment on TV.
DANGER WILL ROBINSON, DANGER! by Andy+Dodd · 2004-12-23 07:27 · Score: 4, Insightful

One aspect of the review mentioned the Indeo codec for one of the devices.

There was also no mention whatsoever of hardware MPEG2 encoding.

If it doesn't encode MPEG2 in hardware, it's not worth buying. Period.

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