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WinTV-GO any good?

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Morphx2

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CompUSA has WinTV-GO for 20 bucks and I am thinking of buying it, but I am not sure it does what I want it to do.

What I would like it to do is have good quality to save tv shows to the harddrive to watch at a later time. Of course it would have to be able to program times/channels in for shows to save while I am out or at class. Is it possible to save 2 shows at once using it as well? And can it save to svcd/vcd extentions, is it .mpg or .mpeg, i forget which it is, so I can burn it to a cd to use on my dvd player for my tv?

Thanks
 
I have one of them. It's is ok considering how cheap it is. TV Quality is good, but the software only really functions as a TV viewer. Recording with it is manual and only in MPEG-1. 3rd party applications work with it however.

I am planning on replacing it with a Hauppage WinTV PVR in the near future.
 
The wintv-go only has one tuner(as most tv tuner cards do), so you will only be able to watch/record one channel at a time. The card is okay for the price, but it only records monaural audio. If you are looking to record video, then be sure that you either have plenty of storage space(to store raw video) or a fast processor(to compress on-the-fly). If you are serious about recording and timeshifting video, then look into one of the cards with an onboard mpeg2 encoder, such as the wintv-pvr cards. Those are considerably more expensive, but may be worth it.
 
Thanks. I just want to record tv shows to watch later

I have AMD 1600+
512 RAM
GeForce 4 Ti4600 128 RAM
MSI motherboard
120 gig + 40 gig HD

I am also looking at the ATI Wonder VE too for 35 dollars
 
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