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Thread ID: 62066	2005-09-25 23:24:00	How Much would a graphics card upgrade affect a Media Centre PC	noone (22)	Press F1

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390888	2005-09-28 23:41:00	however you should be careful about tuning the codec used by the DV2000 as Metla has suggested, as picking a very high compression rate will load up the CPU big time . Wrong end of the stick,What I was suggesting is that he lower the compression, which would take a load off the cpu and the bandwidth being fed to the HD . Personally I wouldn't ever encode into mpeg on the fly, Rather using Huffy and then encoding down at a later date . Though I detest TV so cant imagine ever recording the drivel . . . . .	Metla (12)
390889	2005-09-29 07:17:00	Wrong end of the stick,What I was suggesting is that he lower the compression, which would take a load off the cpu and the bandwidth being fed to the HD . Personally I wouldn't ever encode into mpeg on the fly, Rather using Huffy and then encoding down at a later date . Though I detest TV so cant imagine ever recording the drivel . . . . . No no, got right end of the stick, just can be read in two ways . . :)	BIFF (1)
390890	2005-09-29 07:22:00	Should i get the 150 or the 150MCE ? I believe it's basically the same card, one might have an FM tuner on it or somthing for the radio.... I would suggest the Wintv-pvr150 retail (has no FM radio tuner however) as it comes with a remote and IR blaster (the IR blaster is cool, it sticks on in front of the IR receiver on your cable or sky box, that way the computer can flash out the codes to change the channel for you if you are using s-video or composite as the input rather than using the RF receiver and aerial...)	BIFF (1)
390891	2005-09-30 03:44:00	the 150 has a very few amount of connectors , is it possible to have sound and video ( via composite ) to the Tv as well as sound and video in ( via composite ) from say a Camcorder Amit	noone (22)
390892	2005-10-01 08:54:00	the 150 has a very few amount of connectors , is it possible to have sound and video ( via composite ) to the Tv as well as sound and video in ( via composite ) from say a Camcorder Amit The PVR-150 has svideo, composite, and RF inputs, though only one can be used at a time. If you just want to plug a lot of things in I believe Dick Smith have a RCA multibox thing with a remote so you can switch between multiple video/audio sources. If you want to record two things at once I would recommend the PVR-500 as it's a dual tuner system, though the price goes up a lot for that card....	BIFF (1)
390893	2005-10-01 09:06:00	not much price increase actually , yet there only seems to be a MCE edition , is this the same as the 150 where the MCE edition is OEM ? and not as good	noone (22)
390894	2005-10-01 10:09:00	what i dont get about these better cards is there lack of Video/Audio in ( not out )connectors , am i being dumb or do they really not have them	noone (22)
390895	2005-10-02 02:28:00	what i dont get about these better cards is there lack of Video/Audio in ( not out )connectors , am i being dumb or do they really not have them They have both audio and video in (in various forms, eg svideo composite, RF etc). They don't have any outputs, your graphics card output and soundcard output are what you plug into your television...	BIFF (1)
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