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Pinnacle PCTV Pro

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Pinnacle PCTV Pro

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Straight forward honest product

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5 Nov 7th, 2003  (Jan 7th, 2004)

23 Ciao members have rated this review on average: helpful

Advantages:
Simple and easy to setup .

Disadvantages:
No DVD Input option

Recommendable Yes:

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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 the disk in and follow the prompts.
Tried installing the product under Windows Server 2003 but had a few errors. Resorted to Windows XP and all was well.
Product delivered exactly what it said on the box. I can now play vhs video through the pc at a fraction of the cost of a graphics card. I can watch and record TV on the pc and make permanent backups onto the hardrive.
Bought through Tesco for £36 delivered.  

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Comments about this review »

TheChocolateLady 17.07.2004 12:17

Very good start here but could you tell us more about how you use this and how it installs and how good the picture quality is? That would make it more helpful for me.

stevie-boy 30.11.2003 18:58

A good start, but more detail about the product itself is needed! Steve

Kez_s 07.11.2003 15:25

No idea what it is, what else are you meant to do with it?? More info would be helpful, if you re-write I'd be happy to re-rate. Good luck and welcome to Ciao!

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