I want to buy a stand alone tv card that wont conflict with my voodoo 5 card. I would like to know which ones are the best I've been looking at Pinnacal and wintv. Any suggestions?
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I've been looking too, but it's near impossible to find a card manufacturer that guarantees good performance in Windows2000. I'm starting to think it was a bad idea buying 2000. Of course, what would I do with my 2 dually machines without Win2k?
The pinnacle is nice, I use it to capture video and then encode to VCD/SVCD for archiving. I'm not too sure about using it for everyday viewing purposes though. Don't have any experience with the WinTV, instead of buying that card about 2 years ago I went with a knock-off STB TVPCI that performs just as well because it uses the same decoder chip from Phillips.
Thanks for the advice. Im interested in the same thing. But I was concerned with Pinnacle software. My friend swears by Pinnacle. And I was set on buying it but I started reading some reviews and they were getting slammed so I got kinda scared. But I think Im gonna get one any ways. Thanks for your advice.
It could be my machine, because it is a bit of an old clunker, but I find the WinTV extremely unstable. When I am doing more than just watching telly I often get lock ups, and wierd things happening on screen.
I have the Pinnacle PCTV PCI and I'm also running Win2K. And...I hate it. PCTV sucks ASS. It's the only thing in my machine that is a POS. It will randomly lock up my machine requiring a power reset. To PCTV's credit the picture quality is great when it does work though. Check out Pinnacle's PCTV forum. You have been warned...
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