Input Adapters > AVerMedia Technologies Input Adapters

Advantages: Has tv and radio
Disadvantages: Bad support soes not work on vista

This is a good tv card but not good at recording s video and composite video. The card its self is 1a power compliant has fast channel switching and scanning. Antenna and cables are included but the picture with the antenna is not good. This product needs to be connected to a mains aerial for you to receive analogue or digital tv. The radio is not to bad but crackly. Overall this is not a bad tv card but has various problems. Yes it plays video ...
...I therefore would not reccomend this to vista users. Contacting customer support can be complex. You are initially to email them the problem, they then look into it and getr back to you. If that dont work then you phone customer support and find that they know less than you. Can we call you back later is the order of the day and then they never do. To solve the problem get rid of the car ... Read review

Advantages: cheap, loads of inputs
Disadvantages: almost obsolete in the UK

I own one of these, it is an analogue TV card, and very soon is going to be obsolete in the UK. Here are some details Device Type: TV / radio tuner / video input adapter Enclosure Type: Plug-in card Interface Type: PCI Type: Video capture adapter Interface Type: S-video input, component video input Analogue Video Format: NTSC, PAL Analogue video Signal: S-Video, composite video Digital Video Format: MPEG-1, MPEG-2 Digital Video Capture ...
...Input Mode: Stereo TV antenna - input FM antenna - input Composite video input - RCA S-video input - 4 PIN mini-DIN audio - line-out - mini-phone stereo 3.5 mm As you can see however, the card is well supported with connectors, so, if you can pick one of these cards up very cheaply, like around £3 on E-bay.... Ignoring the radio, which will not be obsoleted, the card can be connected to a Freeview box with or, you can connect a game console ... Read 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. ... Read review

Advantages: the price, the quality, the usefulness of this card
Disadvantages: small codec problems can only be solved by a reinstallation

This is one of the best purchase I've ever done. I've always had the need of television on the pc and when I first set my eyes on this PCI card I couldn't believe it costed so little. The card gives you the possibility to add video/audio input on your computer and the great opportunity to record on hard disk (in different codecs included DivX). It comes in a box with all the needed cables, installation CD, and an infrared remote control that, interacting ...
...placed virtually everywhere you want, can be set to be used with several other programs too, including Windows Media Player but virtually all the programs you want. The card has an aereal plug, composite and s-video inputs. Practically you can both plug your tv aereal and anything from a VCR to a console. With this card you can transform your pc into an actual TV. The best of all this is that you can record in divx everything that passes from it, ... Read review

Advantages: USB, Quick & Easy Video Editing & Conversion, Good Software Included
Disadvantages: None

The Dazzle Video Creator DVC 130 is a cool piece of kit which basically records your videos from a camcorder, VCR or any other video equipment with analogue outputs. That's the reason I bought this and its easy to use. When recording videos from your camcorder it uses hardware encoding for high quality MPEG-1 and MPEG-2 files without using your computer's CPU. This enables encoding to be simple and quick. You can either transfer videos straight ...
...get in the box: - Dazzle DVC 130 USB video capture device with MPEG-1 and MPEG-2 compression hardware - Pinnacle Instant DVD Recorder software - Pinnacle Studio QuickStart software - Quick Installation and Getting Started guides Overall the Dazzle Video Creator DVC 130 is an easy to use and powerful piece of kit which anyone can use. You don't have to be a video editor to use this as it can simply be used to edit family holiday or party videos ... Read review