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| Kworld VStream Xpert DTV DVB-T | Digital TV DVB-T |
Vista? NT4? MAC? Linux *based on user reports. |
PCI | $100 | 7.2
(7.4) 8 votes |
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With V-Stream Xpert DTV DVB-T PCI card, you can watch Digital TV broadcast with an ordinary UHF/VHF antenna. No more ghosting, Digital TV brings you clear, sharp pictures with amazing quality. V-Stream Xpert DTV DVB-T is a digital terrestrial television receiver card that allows you to access free-to-air Television and Radio. You can use this product to capture and record life TV programs directly to your PC's hard disk in MPEG-2 format. You will not miss any second of your favorite show anymore. With the DTVR application's Timeshift function, you can pause live TV and continue from the when you left Scheduled Recording and it makes sure that you won't miss your favorite shows when you are away. What is best is that you do not need to have your PC always on, with the powerful function ¡V S.R.P.O. (Scheduled Recording in Power-Off Mode) You can burn a DVD/VCD/SVCD with DVD Burn software included. V-Stream Xpert DTV DVB-T also includes a fully featured Infrared Remote Control that lets you access features with a simple press of a button. No more scrolling through channels list - you can access channels directly by pressing the configurable channel number. Especially you can easily shut-down your PC with the remote controller. Features Top Watch FREE Digital Terrestrial TV and Listen FREE Digital Radio (not DAB) on PC User-Friendly and Powerful DTVR application ¡ºAspect Ratio with 16:9 Wide-Format Display ¡ºAuto Channel Scan and Name Recognition ¡ºMultiple Channel Preview ¡ºTV Video always on the top of the monitor screen ¡ºOn-Line Help Support EPG Function (DVB Standard) Support TimeShift ¡V Record & Playback Live TV Program at the same time Support Real-Time Digital Video Recording in MPEG2 format Support Scheduled Recording Support Still Image Capture in JPEG or BMP format Support Picture-In-Picture (PIP) function Additional AV/S Video Input for Connect Other Video Sources. ( such as DVD Player/ VCD/ VHS/ Camcorder) SRPO ¡V Schedule-Recording in PC Power-Off Mode Power-Off PC by Remote Controller Other Valued Software ¡ºMPEG Converter ¡ºMPEG Editor ¡ºDVD Burn Specifications Top Video Input ¡V TV Input ¡V 75 Ohm (UHF/VHF) TV Antenna Composite Video S-Video Video Output ¡V TV Output -- 75 Ohm (UHF/VHF) TV Antenna Receiving Frequency ¡V 51 ¡V 858 MHz tuning range Bandwidth ¡V 6MHz(NTSC), 7 & 8MHz(PAL) Code Rate ¡V 1/2, 2/3, 3/4, 4/5, 5/6 and 7/8 |
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hd tv is great BUT when you want to edit captured video I've had trouble with sound/video sync.... :^< as a recorder though, no probs, just don't expect to edit out commercials with supplied software. Comments posted by Ultramag001 from Australia, October 30, 2006: Compatibility: Win95? Win98? Win2K? WinXP? Vista? NT4? MAC? Linux? - Rated: 8 of 10. |
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Im using this card with cyberlink powercinema and that works a treat, however prior to using this card i had played around with an ati x1800 all in wonder (pci-x)and using the same antenna the ati would work flawlessly (no jitters) but when using the Kworld card, from time to time it pixelates. Dont know if its a pci bandwidth limitation or just poor components used on the card - but for £35 you cant really whing. Comments posted by San from United Kingdom, September 16, 2006: Compatibility: Win95? Win98? Win2K? WinXP? Vista? NT4? MAC? Linux? - Rated: 6 of 10. |
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I have the pci version of this card (they also do a usb version). TV signal must be strong before it picks up any channels - but this is not unusual with DVB-T. It offers excellent quality for the cost of £50. Bundled software functions, but the EPG is unusable and the channel list is not reconfigurable. However, it uses standard BDA drivers, so other software can be used. I am now using DVB viewer which costs about £10, and that transforms the card into a very usable PVR; I haven't tried seriously to get it working under linux yet, but by all accounts provided you have the latest kernel and patches it works Comments posted by Jerrytaff from United Kingdom, January 02, 2006: Compatibility: |
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Have had the card for one week and it is installed in a new Shuttle with Sempron + XP. It worked first time with no problems. Similar experiences to Peter and Fraser: functions well for watching and recording. Used time shift once or twice and it seems OK Channel numbering is 'random' - not as printed in Radio Times or order of Freeview boxes. Painful! Remote control is the cheapest/tackiest I've ever seen but it works. Still to try video capture (which seems to be quite rare of DVB-T cards) {UK reviewer - would help if all comments included country!) Comments posted by clive from United Kingdom, June 09, 2005: Compatibility: Win95? Win98? Win2K? WinXP Vista? NT4? MAC? Linux? - Rated: 8 of 10. |
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I'll have to add up the rating, as the beast runs on linux too. I'm using Chris Pascoe base for DNTV Live with few additions: MY Kworld is based on two conexant chips bridge being CX22883 (Broadcast-Decoder) and frontend cx22702(DVB-T 2k/8k). Mine is equipped with Thomson tuner (DTT7579). Card is tagged DVBT_PCI_CX version C. It looks like conexant reference implementation. My KWorld PCI subsystem ID is 17de:08a1 (samsung tuner probably has :08a6). PLL is fitted within tin box, can't see it. Anyhow it tunes. Tunes all three muxes (one can save the whole transport stream with all the channels in it at once or just one specific video/audio PID within the stream). Just add the card subsystem IDs to cx88-cards.c and edit cx88-dvb.c accordingly for frontend. Composite and SVHS work both too under linux (2.6.8 debian). P.S. 0000:02:0b.0 0400: 14f1:8800 (rev 05) Subsystem: 17de:08a1 Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 23 Memory at e6000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16M] Capabilities: [44] Vital Product Data Capabilities: [4c] Power Management version 2 0000:02:0b.2 0480: 14f1:8802 (rev 05) Subsystem: 17de:08a1 Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 23 Memory at e5000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16M] Capabilities: [4c] Power Management version 2 People have success stories on same card with samsung tuner and mt253 frontend likewise. Well, just FYI. Comments posted by Ede from Finland, January 18, 2005: Compatibility: Win95? Win98? Win2K? WinXP Vista? NT4? MAC? Linux - Rated: 8 of 10. |
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Bought the card from Finland 82€. Looked nice. Estimated problems prior to purchase (that's why I chose the cheapest :-) First installation on windows xp home didn't ever manage to find channels. Next on XP pro (AMD 3000+ + AIW 9800SE) same thing. Web searched showed similar problems. KWorld download site had 2.13 drivers. Installing those got the channel search working. S-VHS and composite worked all the time. Picture quality is ok. Teletext doesn't work at all (in Finland). I haven't been able to (with timer) record anything with this piece of c**p. Most of the time it just eats up all the CPU. If not, it records for a while and just stops responding, or it records total bullshit. Doesn't really matter if its recording the DVB transport stream or the program stream. It can ONLY record MPEG-2 from DVB source. Any other installed codec is avail in composite/svhs. Manual recording works every second time (the other half goes up consuming all the CPU). Channel surf crashes always on exit. Included MPEG to AVI converter about ok, I'd suggest to stick with Virtual/NanDUB or what ever else :-) Good thing its using windows BDA, so I MAY expect some other control software do a better trick. DigitalNow and Nebula both look very much like this card. Perhaps a driver/control software can be lended from there? I'm about to throw it in a linux box to see how its coping there(http://www.itee.uq.edu.au/~chrisp/Linux-DVB/DNTV/), I think the crashes are mainly SW problems, since composite and S-VHS with other codecs work very nice. If you don't know what your doing and don't really have money to waste, I suggest spending some more and buying a quality card with quality software (if there's any ;-) P.S. Since many seem to have this thing working, maybe its something unexpected (as usual). I have EPOX motherboard, AIW 9800 SE (TV tuner included). Comments posted by Ede from Finland, January 15, 2005: Compatibility: Win95? Win98? Win2K? WinXP Vista? NT4? MAC? Linux? - Rated: No rating. |
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I'm using it in the UK. Updated drivers are now on the manufacturers website (Ver 2.11, Nov 04) - the BDA drivers appear to have been updated as well, so there is a chance that it may work better with 3rd party software. Text does not work - but the UK does text differently from most of the rest of the world. :-) It's awkward to rearrange the stored order of channels - it would be nice if the broadcast LCN (Logical Channel Number) was used for ordering, however most locales don't use LCN's.... The broadcast Now/next and EPG display is unusable - but it's there - it would make the card so much more useful if it worked well! Video and sound quality (live and recorded) is good - the extras are a bit rough, but they are getting there. This card appears to be the same as the Jetway and xpert ones. Peter Comments posted by Peter from United Kingdom, December 03, 2004: Compatibility: Win95? Win98? Win2K? WinXP Vista? NT4? MAC? Linux? - Rated: 8 of 10. |
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Bought this card last week and I am still getting to grips with it. The card gives excellent recordings and works well, most of the time. I have had a couple of times that it does not record without some minor, but irritating glitches, which seem to happen on only certain channels, so it may be an aerial quality problem. Problem is you have no way of knowing when this is happening until playback. The software that comes with the card needs to be patched from the web siteto allow auto tuning to work, but this was no problem for me. I do hope the software is improved as there are a few things that could be added to make this a really good card. The MPEG PS file that it makes goes into TMPGEnc and TMPGEnc DVD Author. The MPEG file editor they give you works well and has a nice layout. I have not tried the supplied DVD author software. I have yet to get the teletext to work. The manual is well written for what it says, but it does miss things out, like how to use the teletext. Web site looks quite good but looks new and still to fill out. http://www.kworld.com.tw/ Comments posted by George Cooper from United Kingdom, November 12, 2004: Compatibility: Win95? Win98? Win2K WinXP? Vista? NT4? MAC? Linux? - Rated: No rating. |
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This was the first capture card I purchased. The software to burn to DVD was great. However, the video capture left much to be desired. The noise from the VCR drums was left in the picture and after burning to DVD it still showed on the picture. Their tech support had no idea what it was after looking at a screen shot much less how to fix. Also the tech support could only be reached by email and took over a week to ever respond. Funny thing was I was able to figure out what that noise was after spending an hour on this site but they couldn't figure it out for over a week. Good possibilities but horrible support and you get what you pay for in terms of quality. Comments posted by Melekal from United States, August 11, 2004: Compatibility: Win95? Win98? Win2K? WinXP Vista? NT4? MAC? Linux? - Rated: 4 of 10. |
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Hi, I just got this card. It's pretty brilliant for the price, I got it for just 69 pounds! The drivers and update for DVB-Plus were not working from the kworld website, but i emailed them and they have fixed the link so you can now download the drivers and the dvd-plus version 1.31 patch. The website address for the downloads is http://www.kworld.com.tw/asp/Dindex.asp?id=14&pid=4 Alternativly, the driver can also be downloaded from the link at the bottom of the web page address below http://www.jetway.com.tw/evisn/product/lcd-tv/DVT-PCI/dtv-pci.htm Watching Live TV and Recording The general performance of the card seems pretty good, it generally records fine, but does fail after a few seconds sometimes. I found closeing and opening the programme solved this! I have recorded half hour programmes from various channels fine! The picture and sound do jump a bit when using lots of other programmes at the same time, ie. MSN and internet explorer. The Remote Control The remote isin't great and the buttons seem a bit sticky, but it's generally good! When it scans for channels, it displays them in the order it finds them. This is annoying and means that, in my area, ITV is channel one, BBC 1 is on channel 79! They cannot be simply changed, however the updated version of dvb plus allows you to add and delete channels, so you can note down the frequencies and fill them in manually, a little time consuming, but allows you to have the channels in whatever order you want. Summary In conclusion, this is the cheapest digital terestial TV card that I could find, and yet it does everything I need it to do. This is the best solution I could find for digital TV, as a set top box alone was going to be about 50 pounds without harddrive recording. Many of the problems I list above maybe caused by my not having a very uptodate computer. My Computer Windows XP Home Atholon XP 1.4GHz Processor Asus A7V266-E Motherboard 512MB DDR PC2100 Kingston Value Ram 120GB 7200rpm Maxtor 2Mb Cache Hard Drive 128MB DDR ATI Radeon 9200SE I only have a onboard soundcard Hope this is of help, cheers Fraser PS. I havn't yet used the time shifting function or the record power off function or either of the composite or svideo in cable. Comments posted by Fraser Florence from United Kingdom, August 11, 2004: Compatibility: Win95? Win98? Win2K? WinXP Vista? NT4? MAC? Linux? - Rated: 9 of 10. |
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