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    Edited:
    The specifications says:

    TV Tuner YES (NTSC Only)
    Broadcast Stardard Support NTSC/PAL/SECAM

    I am confused. PAL or only NTSC TV?

    There are too many fixed parameters in this toy.


    Fred
    Last edited by Fred H; 16 March 2005, 15:03.
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  • #2
    Hardly new, it's ben several months on the market. In NTSC land you get an NTSC tuner, in PAL land a PAL tuner. But the videoinputs can handle PAL, SECAM and NTSC.

    Apulo
    Apulo

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    • #3
      Excuse me, for my poor knowledge. My source was a new issue of a Swedish computer magazine.
      A known phenomenon is that every new product announced in Europe is already obsolete, old news at the “big brother”

      Fred
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      • #4
        But in return, you got much less smog and a social security system that can't be beat. Wanna trade?

        Apulo
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        • #5
          Yes, but it is not a questin for the "Desktop Video" forum.

          Fred
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          • #6
            Fred.

            They must have read your posting here.

            Quote from your link.
            No mention of NTSC.

            Hardware
            TV Tuner PAL/SECAM
            Video Capture PAL/SECAM (720 x 576, 352 x 576, 352 x 288)
            NTSC (720 x 480, 352 x 480, 352 x 240)
            Video Input S-Video or Composite (RCA connector)
            Audio Input Stereo audio (2 x RCA connectors)
            TV Inputs RF/Coaxial
            PC Interface Hi-Speed USB 2.0
            Power Supply 100 - 240 V, 50/60 Hz
            paulw

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            • #7
              I must have been reading about NTSC in the table here:


              And, I linked the image from the Belgian site, missing the PAL/SECAM line here:

              Sorry.
              But, no one has a comment about this hardware? I am just curious about it.

              Fred
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              • #8
                It's a very decent capture device. You need a good USB2.0 controller (any recent one should do, but SiS controllers are notoriously slower than VIA, nVidia or Intel.)

                A few HTPC PVR applications support it (one of the few external USB2 devices that get support). Picture quality is very good, even in Divx capture (Divx one pass is usually not very good, but it's quite acceptable here).

                It got compared in one test with the Hauppauge PVR250, and came out looking very good, just a tad more grainy picture because it doesn't filter noisy video that much (or that well, the test didn't really elaborate on the filter levels).

                If you're looking for an external capture device with tuner, I'd think I'd prefer this one over the Hauppauge USB2 PVR device.

                The test can be read here: http://www.htpcnews.com/main.php?id=plextor_divx

                Apulo
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                • #9
                  Makes me wonder why there is no firewire device with a TV tuner...
                  (just imagine: an ADVC100/110 with a tuner )

                  Well, there is one such device, but it only has mac support for the tuner...



                  Jörg
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                  • #10
                    Originally posted by VJ
                    Makes me wonder why there is no firewire device with a TV tuner...
                    (just imagine: an ADVC100/110 with a tuner )

                    Well, there is one such device, but it only has mac support for the tuner...



                    Jörg
                    well, let's include DV / HDV encoder in same box and coaxial component (YPbPr, YCbCr and RGB. complete signal syncing programmability is a plus.) inputs...

                    ...and while we started, let's use Firewire800 interface instead of Firewire400.
                    also having programmable signal low/high/band pass filters for each input channel with efficient fourier or discrete cosine transform based noise reduction with teachable noise samples would be nice especially if done in HW level.




                    and I don't even want to imagine how much that thing would cost. Still, the quality would most likely be very good.
                    "Dippadai"

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                    • #11
                      Yeah, well, then it wouldn't be a consumer device anymore, would it?
                      -Off the beaten path I reign-

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