The WinTV PVR 350 is Tech Tips pick as the best TV Tuner

 

by Tim Jones 4/1/04

The WinTV PVR 350 has a built in 125 channel reciever. It allows you to watch TV on your PC or use your PC as a Digital Video Recorder(DVR). With Video inputs, you can back up your home videos and VHS movies to your PC in MPEG1 or MPEG2 format with the high performance MPEG2 encoder. The best part, you can use the WinTV PVR to burn straight to CD or DVD!

WinTV also works like a VCR, allowing you to schedule recordings in advance and pausing tv. The WinTV also comes with WinTV MPEG editor that will allow you to edit your MPEGs with out losing video quality. You can split a long movie into two parts, or remove commercials from your TV recordings. WinTV can capture high quality still video images up to 1600x1200 pixels in BMP, TIF, and Jpeg formats.

The PVR 350 also includes FM radio and antenna for your PC!

Other software it includes is WinTV2000 for TV viewing, Program pause, TV Record and Playback, WinTV-Scheduler, and DVD Moviefactory for authoring your own videos.

System Requirements are: Pentium® II processor 450MHz or faster for TV pause w/ full screen playback; Windows® 98/SE/Me/2000/XP; Free PCI slot; Sound card; CD-RW or DVD writer