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World's Smallest PVR? TiVX 2230 Review

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the if-you-just-can't-handle-stuff-in-your-living-room dept.

Dave writes "GadgetZone takes a look at the DViCO TiVX 2230, the world's smallest PVR. The internal notebook drive means it can be used as a portable hard drive, then installed in the living room and used as a full media player and PVR. It's definitely a nifty little gadget."

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  1. Re:HD for Cable subscribers by the_crowbar · · Score: 4, Informative

    Check out the Hauppauge HD-PVR. It records HD via component video and I think the newest firmware enables 5.1 audio. It is a hardware encoder and requires almost no CPU to record (you just save the video strem to disk). Playback on the other hand requires a very beefy system. Under Linux a 3.0GHz is about the minimum requirement. Windows users may be able to offload some of the video decoding to their graphics card.

    Linky: http://www.hauppauge.com/site/products/data_hdpvr.html

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