RE: WinTV-NOVA-T USB or PCI

[Mike Griffiths <mike@xxxxxxx>]

The blurb suggests Stereo quote:
The WinTV Nova-t USB is an external unit, which receives, decodes and
transmits digital terrestrial broadcasts to your PC.Digital reception
provides sharper pictures and offers near CD quality audio and radio. For
the first time, studio quality television can be viewed at your convenience
on your desktop. You can also watch in wide screen format, so the viewing
experience is now even better. Listen to radio in stereo sound. The WinTV
Nova-t USB brings the additional benefit of digital video recording. You
ca=
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record your digital TV programmes to your hard disk and play them back in
full original digital quality!=20
Recorded programmes are captured digitally using MPEG-2 format. Recording a
1 hour programme, takes approximately, 1.6GB of hard disk space. You can
also record up to 3 hours of digital TV, on a DVD recordable or
approximately 20 hours of video on a 30GB hard disk


Mike

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-----Original Message-----
From: Ian B [mailto:Ian@xxxxxxx]
Sent: Mon 08 Oct 01 23:29
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
Subject: RE: [ukha_d] WinTV-NOVA-T USB or PCI

I think I remember that the USB versions are all mono, is this correct? If
so that is a reaal pain.

Ian

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Stuart Booth [mailto:stuart@xxxxxxx]
> Sent: 08 October 2001 22:47
> To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> Subject: [ukha_d] WinTV-NOVA-T USB or PCI
>
>
> I'd love to have a fiddle with these new Hauppauge WinTV cards as
> the idea of using my PC as a Tivo type device is tremendously
> appealing.
>
> Anyway, just browsing over the USB external and PCI internal card
> options on their site. I imagine the USB traffic the external box
> would generate would be pretty significant. I've generally shied
> away from USB devices for high(er) bandwidth uses because of
> high CPU usage. BT's USB ADSL modems seem to induce a
> significant CPU hit for instance.
>
> But I can't recall now if I have any free slots in my Server that I
can
> put one of these PCI bad boys in, ensuring it has its own IRQ.
> Been a while since I dug around inside that box.
>
> Just gandered a search on Google and looks like there may be a
> fair price hit on the USB model. Dabs say =A3119ex for the PCI card,
> =A3170 for the USB job.
>
> Guess I'll have to figure out what free slots I have... ;)
>
>
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