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 ...
Advantages: Internal hub gears, sturdy frame, nice finish, responsive ride, great price Disadvantages: Right brake lever could be longer, high Q factor, poor pedal design
PINNACLE STRATUS 3.0E
Product reviews, out of necessity, are full of relative descriptions and judgements based on comparison with a similar product familiar to the reviewer. Therefore, a reviewer?s experience very much affects the review outcome. Reviewers with little or no experience to call upon are likely to compare the product with their own expectations (be they reasonable or not).
My review is no exception but I?ll say up front that my experience of adult bicycles is limited to a GT Tequesta mountain bike (steel frame, 3x7 derailuer gears & no suspension) and two lightweight tourers (both with Reynolds 531 steel frame, one with 700C alloy rims and 2x7 speed derailleur gears and the older tourer with 26? steel rims and Sturmey Archer 4 speed internal hub gears). Each tourer was fitted with new parts as they wore over ...
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.
PinnaclePCTV 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 ...
PCTV 310i from Pinnacle transforms your PC into an all-in-one entertainment center, complete with TV and advanced personal video recorder (PVR). Watch and record digital and analog TV channels. Control live TV with advanced personal video recorder features. Use MediaCenter software to manage and enjoy all your photo, video and music files via a single, remote-controlled interface.
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