Pinnacle PCTV Analog Pro PCI 110i

Poor cousin of Miro PCI card

Advantages: Simple to install, TV on your PC
Disadvantages: Poor image quality, expensive in comparison to card based products.

The overall operatio of this system is quite good. Plug it in, install the software, detect the channels and off you go. Fine, good, but does it make a usefull TV on your PC? IS a TV on your PC usefull? The answer to the latter depends on yourself, you might want security pics from a camera, you might want to watch the a program or listen to the news while working on something else. You might want video capture. If you have a use for this type of hardware you'll buy the kit. I often found, though, that what failed this system was it's picture quality. I'm sure the software is doing some groovy things back there, but the results can be equally groovy. The system has some serious definition issues, especially present when watching text on plain backgrounds. With a moving background it's much harder to see, but on, say, credit ...

AndreBoyle 14.08.2000 · Read full review
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Straight forward honest product

Advantages: Simple and easy to setup.
Disadvantages: No DVD Input option

Spent a while looking for a video input graphics card until i came across this little number. Graphics cards were coming in around the £100 mark and this was just not practical. I'm not a high end user and just need the basics such as playing vhs video through the pc. Pinnacle PCTV Rave is a fully featured TV Tuner card to watch TV on your PC with ultimate image quality for an incredible price. It also allows you to record video clips and capture high-quality single screens from your TV, camcorder or VCR onto your hard disk, and to access Teletext pages from Internet. This product lets you watch tv on the pc and with a bit of tweaking with the good old bunny ears aerial you can pick up all five channels (northern ireland). The Product was very easy to install and software was straight forward. Stick the card in the pci slot and bung ...

oynx 07.11.2003 (07.01.2004) · Read full review
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Something for the pros

Advantages: Loads of feature
Disadvantages: Expensive

Video-editiong professionals pay attention. If you are looking for hardware to complement your skills in post-production, try this hardware. Tis card is for "pro-simers" only. it's a tool that supports sophisticated multi-layer compositing and 3D processing that allows you to move a step futher from the basics of video editing. A huge step that is. among the key features - You can combine up to ten filters, transitions and effects in real-time. This means that the Pro-ONE gives flexibility in introducing your cretive juices to your video. Editing videos with transitions and effects with the Pinnacle Pro-ONE are in real time. No need to waste time waiting for them to render to see your work. TO use this card comfortably, you'll nedd some good hardware to complement this Pro-Card. Be ready with P4 or Athlon XP based system. Also ...

ani_muza 15.01.2003 · Read full review
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