i recently got a usb tuner card, and im really happy with it, so nice to just have wmc open and watch mike and mike in the morning while reading up on news etc...also the dvr features are so nice and easy...

today i hooked up my ps2 through it using dscaler..so now i can listen to my jams and catch up on some ff12 over xmas break


thought you all would like to know

lulz

12/18/2007 12:05:55 PM

details of the card

12/18/2007 12:10:35 PM

HAI GUYS WUTS GOIN ON IN TISH THREAD?

12/18/2007 2:48:34 PM

http://www.pinnaclesys.com/PublicSite/uk/Products/Consumer+Products/PCTV+Tuners/PCTV+Digital+PVR+(DVB-S_DVB-T)/PCTV+USB+Stick.htm

cept its black and woot branded...

performs great, channel change has about 1-2 sec lag time, the software it comes with is decent i guess, i only used it for about a day, i just go through windows media center which takes care of everything including downloading a guide automatically....

i had to use dscript thought as a way to play the ps2 through it b/c it dscript doesnt have live recording so it doesnt add a button response lag

12/18/2007 6:11:41 PM

^ i've got the HD version of that one (it's also black)...i love it

12/18/2007 7:53:24 PM

i almost bought one, but the comments turned me off on it.

12/18/2007 7:57:24 PM

I have the HDTV one as well, but I don't like it because there's a constant buffer of about a half-second; it's okay for TV, but it's too slow for games.

12/18/2007 7:59:39 PM

^ ah...i haven't tried it for anything but regular cable television and OTA HD...haven't bothered hooking anything else up to it, including digital cable...i have noticed the delay, though

got it from circuit city for $60 with no rebates when there was a price mistake at best buy that they weren't honoring (but CC didn't know that, and price-matched )

[Edited on December 18, 2007 at 8:05 PM. Reason : .]

12/18/2007 8:05:39 PM

Yeah, it also doesn't receive Clear QAM either, so you can't watch digital cable on it

12/18/2007 8:10:08 PM

NitroCloud its not the hardware thats the problem with the lag time, its whatever software you use that adds the 1-2 second delay on input b/c of the recording...i had the same problem using my ps2 through mine, all you have to do is dl dscript which doesnt have any sort of real-time recording and the lag time poofs...

12/19/2007 11:46:01 AM

^^ dude, seriously? bummer

^ link to software?

12/19/2007 12:33:16 PM

http://deinterlace.sourceforge.net/

my bad, its called dscaler

12/19/2007 7:18:33 PM