Input Adapters

It took a long time to WinTV

Advantages: Inexpensive and useful
Disadvantages: Does not install on all motherboards tried

<installation> I 1st installed this on a Vista machine with an Asus K8V SE motherboard The card was seemingly installed OK but after scan I could not receive any freeview channels, only analogue so I rang the help desk because the analogue system has no future. They said they have information that the card, for some inexplicable reason, does not work with some motherboards, something to do with power supply available they thought. So I tried ...
...PC with a Winfast motherboard and XP professional. Tried every slot on that - still no joy. After several phone calls to this excellent help line and waiting for their USA division to update the drivers they offered to replace the card just to see if it was faulty. This they did, although it did take a few weeks because apparently the person dealing with returns was on holiday? On receipt of replacement - again no joy so I abandoned the whole ...

rbell5ciao 27.10.2007 · Read full review
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Review of Hauppauge WinTV HVR-1100

Belkin DVD Creator Video input adapter review

Advantages: Works, lifetime waranty, easy to use(its just plug and play)
Disadvantages: Nothing special about it, equivalent prducts can be found everywhere

What can I say about it except it does the job and does it well. Its fast (as the name suggests) and is compatible with the industry standards (up to 720x480pixels and 30fps) I hear you cry what makes this better than any other analogue video to pc cable and the answer is not very much. You plug it, in use the included compatible software and copy your source to pc. It works with just about any standard analogue source. Its a pretty standard piece ...
...the slosh of the general market, its as good as any and has a lifetime waranty but I'm sure you can find the equivalent of this product for less. I only recomend it for the life time waranty, not that much can go wrong on a cable and a bit of software. ...

somebodyyouknow 17.06.2008 · Read full review
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Review of Belkin Hi-Speed USB 2.0 DVD Creator Video input adapter

Xbox 360 Wireless Gaming Receiver for Windows

Advantages: 6 foot cable and a 30-foot range for wireless.
Disadvantages: not compatible with all games

The xbox 360 Wireless Gaming Receiver for windows is a simple adapter that connects into a USB 2.0 port on you're PC and let's you use up to four xbox 360 Wireless Controller's, xbox 360 wireless headset and a xbox 360 Wireless Racing Wheel on your windows computer, plus it will work future xbox 360 wireless accessories. It also has a 6 foot cable that let's you easily hook it up to a rear or front USB port and it provides up to a 30-foot range for ...

joshthegigalo 20.07.2007 · Read full review
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Review of Microsoft Xbox 360 Wireless Gaming Receiver for Windows

Good Hardware, Bad Software

Advantages: Cheap, Works
Disadvantages: Poor software

...the story is different for Linux users (specifically Ubuntu 7.10). While Freecom does not officially support Linux, Realtek (who make the DVB chipset) have released a driver that has been modified for easy installation by the Ubuntu community (just search the forum). It works flawlessly with Kaffeine (free media player). ...

ugm6hr 01.03.2008 · Read full review
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Review of Freecom DVB-T USB stick DVB terrestrial receiver / radio input adapter

Nice card shame about the software

Advantages: Hybrid tuners, onboard hardwarde mpeg encoder
Disadvantages: Awful Hauppauge software

An excellent card let down by clunky outdated software. Hardware-wise it's hard to beat as it has both and analog and digital terrestrial tuners as well as a hardware mpeg encoder on the analog side to aid in the transfer of home movies from Tape to DVD. Hauppauge's problem is that it hasn't updated the WinTV200 software since God was a boy and it is a complete pain to use. I'd highly recommend this card but if you are considering it, allow yourself ...

jjbreen 23.11.2007 · Read full review
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Review of Hauppauge WinTV HVR-1300