Help with Personal Video Recorder cards

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  • staypuff
    Junior Member
    Junior Member
    • Jun 2002
    • 3

    Help with Personal Video Recorder cards

    I am looking into building a PVR from a chyang fun barebones system a personal video recorder to sit under the television.

    http://www.chyangfun.com/Product/CF-S668K7.htm for info on the system.

    The main problem is that no-one i know uses pci cards for tv capture, they use all in wonder cards. The problem therefore is that the CF barebones system has built on graphics and only 1 PCI slot.

    This outlined the problem is clear, what PCI TV cards could anyone recommend that allow the use of a remote control and good high quality TV to Hard Disk recording, preferably using a record button on the remote.

    Any info to help me would be very much appreciated.

    So far i have found a hauppauge WinTV PVR 250 or 350 seems to be able to do the job, although apart from price there seems to be no differences between them, any ideas on this as well?
  • sfheath
    Lord of Digital Video
    Lord of Digital Video
    • Sep 2003
    • 2399

    #2
    Hi. The 350 contains a hardware decoder as well as the encoder - I may be getting one myself!
    This isn't a learning curve ... this is b****y mountaineering!

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    • staypuff
      Junior Member
      Junior Member
      • Jun 2002
      • 3

      #3
      Would you let me know what you think of it if you do?

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      • sfheath
        Lord of Digital Video
        Lord of Digital Video
        • Sep 2003
        • 2399

        #4
        I will let you know
        Since my post I've discovered a recently new product by Adaptec called a Media Center. There is a USB and PCU versions. Check out http://www.adaptec.co.uk/worldwide/p...nology%2fVideo
        This isn't a learning curve ... this is b****y mountaineering!

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        • staypuff
          Junior Member
          Junior Member
          • Jun 2002
          • 3

          #5
          I am after a product with a tuner as well as other inputs.
          Thanks for the thought though

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          • sfheath
            Lord of Digital Video
            Lord of Digital Video
            • Sep 2003
            • 2399

            #6
            yup! tuner onboard. read the specs

            "Adaptec AVC-2410 MPEG-1, MPEG-2 hardware encoding PCI card with 125 channel cable ready TV tuner "
            This isn't a learning curve ... this is b****y mountaineering!

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            • sfheath
              Lord of Digital Video
              Lord of Digital Video
              • Sep 2003
              • 2399

              #7
              Adaptec Videoh! Media Center v Hauppauge PVR350

              .. a tough call .. review of PVR:
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              This isn't a learning curve ... this is b****y mountaineering!

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