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| Nebula DigiTV | Digital TV DVB-T Analog VideoIn |
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PCI | $150 | 8.9/10 8 votes |
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| DigiTV PCI is a high-performance, highly integrated Digital Television entertainment system for your PC.
DigiTV Features Decoding and viewing of free-to-air Digital Terrestrial Television Decoding and playing of free-to-air Digital Terrestrial Radio Pause Live Video Full Stereo Sound Fully integrated 7-Day EPG (Electronic Programme Guide) currently servicing most major UK and Finnish TV and Radio channels Integrated MPEG I and II media player View in widescreen (16:9) or normal (4:3) Analog Video & Audio capture (from video camera, video recorder etc.) Integrated 10 programme Digital Video Recorder 'Point-and-Click' programme recording facility On-screen programme names, start times, duration and description Video Overlays for all menu options View in a window or in full-screen mode Remote Control capability Channel lockout facility for Parental Control Support for all European languages (where transmitted) Super-fast auto-tuning (typically less than 15 seconds) |
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I was worried about the mono audio input on the card for analogue audio/video capture but their sales department informed me that their software now uses the stereo input from your soundcard instead. Comments posted by Patrick from United Kingdom, September 16, 2004: Compatibility: Win95? Win98? Win2K? WinXP? Vista? NT4? MAC? Linux? - Rated: No rating. |
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Excellent card. Have been using it for over a year. Superb picture quality. So easy to dump the raw MPEG stream to disc and then author a DVD from it. Now you can archive broadcast masters to DVD for less than 70p a disc ... who needs video tape anymore!! Comments posted by Rodney Neill from United Kingdom, May 23, 2004: Compatibility: Win95? Win98 Win2K WinXP Vista? NT4? MAC? Linux? - Rated: 10 of 10. |
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Fantastic Tuner, flawless install. Beats Hauppage rubbish anyday from the perspective of Tuner stability and software quaility. If like me, you want to do analague capture with stereo audio this is the limit of the card. Only mono input and very limited MPEG authoring facility. Shame - if they provided Stereo capture and full authoring facility this will be an Awesome card Comments posted by Graham from United Kingdom, February 28, 2004: Compatibility: Win95? Win98? Win2K? WinXP Vista? NT4? MAC? Linux? - Rated: 7 of 10. |
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This card will allow you to record/watch Freeview (UK)channels or DVB-T in other countries. The software is easy to use and allows for schedule recording. It has an anologue capture port that works well with Dscaler but there is an issue with the analogue driver that Nebula are aware off so other programmes tend to drop frames and cause other problems. If you have internet connection the software has 7 day EPG and audio subtitles. The support is quick and honest in that they acknowledge there are problems but they listen to the user and release regular updates. The newest version of the software allows for video streaming over a lan which some people will love. Well worth the extra money over the avermedia DVB-T that I had before. Comments posted by bob from Other, December 22, 2003: Compatibility: Win95? Win98? Win2K? WinXP Vista? NT4? MAC? Linux? - Rated: 9 of 10. |
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Needs a fairly powerful PC. They recommend at least a 800Mhz but my aging Athlon 850 struggles if I try to capture and view at the same time. During recording, CPU load hits 100%, but will drop back down to reasonable level if I minimise the viewing window; likewise, I can view live broadcasts without problems. The card has composite analogue input, allowing to capture analogue singals, but you can only set timer to record digital TV channels and not of the analogue input. Again, I agree their help desk is pretty efficient. Actually appologied for not replying my email until the next day, now that makes a change. Comments posted by Ray from Other, December 16, 2003: Compatibility: Win95? Win98? Win2K WinXP Vista? NT4? MAC? Linux? - Rated: 8 of 10. |
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Superb card, superb quality and excellent software with yet more features being developed all the time. Support respond to emails within a day and actually listen to your comments on bugs, minor improvements etc! Minor install problem under win2k sorted within 24hrs by support- must have sp3 installed or doesn't work! Only marked down by 1 because presently the mpeg2 streams need some massaging by third party software to make them compliant with editor packages for burning to DVD/SVCD - something to do with broadcast DVB Mpeg2 being in a different packet formation to allow for timelags in the signal and packet loss - apparently the same for all these new cards that just dump the dvb stream to disk but I am confident the integrated software will soon be polished to the extent that third party fixes such as Pvaintrumento will not be necessary Comments posted by rf from Other, June 05, 2003: Compatibility: Win95? Win98 Win2K WinXP? Vista? NT4? MAC? Linux? - Rated: 9 of 10. |
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Worked straight out of the box, no messing! Only one problem :-( The captures appear to be running at x2 normal speed but I'm sure I can sort that. Comments posted by Gaz from Other, May 19, 2003: Compatibility: Win95? Win98? Win2K WinXP? Vista? NT4? MAC? Linux? - Rated: 9 of 10. |
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what can i say ,my very own PVR with a seven day epg. works a treat... Comments posted by LEE from Other, April 16, 2003: Compatibility: Win95? Win98 Win2K WinXP Vista? NT4? MAC? Linux? - Rated: 10 of 10. |
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Basically a Freeview Digital TV card but probably the best DVB tuner/capture card for the UK. Captures directly to MPEG2/48kHz audio, has a very good 7-day guide/EPG scheduler which even works in background ("Silent" mode). Simple EPG listings are provided free from Nebula's site, the program will just download them and you have your neat little guide within. The DigiTV program captures MPEG2 in its broadcast form - CPU usage is relatively high in recording mode, but it is NOT doing encoding, it's just grabbing what mpeg2 are offered from the transmissions. Hence MPEG Bitrates aren't configurable, it follows what the channels broadcast them in. (eg BBC1 streams could go up to 15.00 Mbps VBR! But most other channels have average 4 -6 Mbps VBR which are well suited for DVD!) At the time of writing, the captured mpegs aren't 100% compatible with some other mpeg editors or dvd authoring programs, but this can be easily overcome by running opening them with the freeware PVAStrumento and rewriting a compatible mpeg. Since what you record is what being broadcasted, after burning to DVD, the results look exactly like the original broadcast quality - just stunning! They're still working hard on improving the software, teletext/subtitles will come end of april/beginning of may. Last of all - the Nebula Tech Support is EXCELLENT! Emails are replied within a few hours, and they actually listen to what you say/suggest and explain in depth in solving any problem that i was encountering. I had been using ATI AIW Radeon & WinTV & PV256T and was about to get somethng like a Nova-T but luckily I discovered DigiTV - for only 20quid more than a DVB Freeview box, it's probably the best £120 that i've spent! Well worth recommending! Comments posted by REiREi from Other, April 15, 2003: Compatibility: Win95? Win98? Win2K WinXP? Vista? NT4? MAC? Linux? - Rated: 9 of 10. |
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more technical information.New comments= New comments since your last visit. New Card= New Capture Card since your last vist. Feature What kind of main capture features it supports Analog VideoIn = Analog composite or/and SVHS video input Video Card = If it is a Video Card/Graphic Card Tv Tuner = Built-In TV-Tuner Digital TV = Built-In Digital TV-Tuner DV/Firewire = DV/Firewire/i.Link input DV Converter = Analog composite or/and SVHS video input and converts to DV video MPEG1 hardware = Capture directly MPEG1(VCD) video using hardware* MPEG2 hardware = Capture directly MPEG2(SVCD and DVD) video using hardware* MJPEG hardware = Capture directly to MJPEG using hardware* MPEG4 hardware = Capture directly to MPEG4(DivX,Xvid) video using hardware* * = Most capture cards can capture to this format using software but it usually requires a very fast computer, if it supports realtime capturing it uses the capture cards hardware and it doesn't require a very fast computer and you may get better quality but less options/settings than software capturing. Compatibility What Operating System our users have reported that it works on, Win95=Works Cnx = Connection What type of connection the capture device has to the computer, PCI, AGP, USB1/1.1/2, DV or PCMCIA. Price The price in US dollar. Rating The first rating is based on a weighted rank (the true Bayesian), it requires at least 5 votes to get a weighted rating. The second rating between the ( ) is a normal average rating. Comment User comments, click on view to view them or add to post a own comment. We can not gurantee that this list is 100% correct. Don't forget to read the User Comments for more Info about each Capture card. If you find any features that are not correct contact us instead of posting a comment about it. |
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