AVerMedia AVerTV Stereo - TV tuner / video input adapter - PCI - NTSC, PAL-N, PAL-M

by AVERMEDIA

Product Details

• ASIN: B00006B7FB
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #203,903 in Electronics (See Top 100 in Electronics)
• Date first available at Amazon.com: January 12, 2006

Customer Reviews

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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Good TV, OK for capture, October 9, 2002

By A Customer

This review is from: AVerMedia AVerTV Stereo - TV tuner / video input adapter - PCI - NTSC, PAL-N, PAL-M (Electronics)

I use it in Windows XP and the TV aspect of the card is pretty good. Like many others, I agree that the softawre leaves a bit to be desired. In fact, I use Cyberlink's PowerVCR for timeshift recording because the Avermedia software is just not that good.

If you intend to use the card for video capture make sure you have a good deal of computer horsepower. I have a 1Ghz Athlon with 256MB ram and get good quality capture in VCD mode, but when trying to capture at Mpeg2 levels the video is choppy. I'm sure a more powerful PC would help tremdously.

Those of you with PC's similar to mine may consider getting the Haupaugge card that has a built in mpeg hardware decoder.

I've also had pretty good luck capturing straight to Divx with this card.

Overall is a good deal for the money. Just wish my PC was a little faster.

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Very Fair TV Tunner with PVR Card, January 19, 2003

By A Customer

This review is from: AVerMedia AVerTV Stereo - TV tuner / video input adapter - PCI - NTSC, PAL-N, PAL-M (Electronics)

I bought Hauppauge WinTV-GO a few months ago, then switch to the VERMEDIA TV Stereo (pvr) Tuner currently. It works great, receives TV show in stereo with caption optional. You can record your favorite program manually or automatically (by titantv.com). To my experience, you can not skip the commercial through titantv.com.

However, the resolution of picture is in the middle (max. 720X480). You can watch high quality picture in a window (around 14 inches), However, if you fit the picture to the full screen (17 or 19 inches monitor), then the image is poor.

9 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Good basic TV capture card @ reasonable price, September 22, 2002

By A Customer

This review is from: AVerMedia AVerTV Stereo - TV tuner / video input adapter - PCI - NTSC, PAL-N, PAL-M (Electronics)

This is a good basic TV capture/tuner card @ reasonable price.
If you have lots of home VHS/c or 8mm/Hi8mm, you can save them into your harddrive and send them via email.
Also, if you have a CD-RW drive(DVD-/+RW, even better), you can burn a video cd(VCD) (or DVD) that can be played on most of modern DVD players.