Pinnacle PCTV Stereo

Pinnacle PCTV Stereo

Turn your PC into an inexpensive personal video recorder with PCTV Stereo.

PCTV Stereo includes a stereo PCI TV tuner board and all the software you need to record television shows to your PC, and burn to CD. Additional features include "TimeShifting" for pausing "live" TV and full-screen display with real-time de-interlacing .

Watch and record stereo television shows
Play, pause, fast forward and rewind "live" TV (time shifting technology)
Burn television shows to VCD, SVCD* and DVD*
Teletext application with database for all Teletext data for all pages and sub-pages for all channels, search engine and TOP-Text support.
Full-screen TV display with real-time de-interlacing
Full WDM/BDA compliant driver, WHQL certified
Real-time MPEG-1, MPEG-2*, SuperVCD*, DVD* software encoding with presets for VideoCD, SuperVCD, and DVD
Still image capture from TV and connected analog video sources via TWAIN interface
Activation of MPEG2 functionality for your PCTV enhances the product feature set as follows:

Hard-disk recording in MPEG2 format of live TV or from external video sources that are connected to your PCTV (e.g. VCR, DVD player, CableTV set-top box). Given presets are ŽDVD, ŽDVD Longplay and ŽSuperVCD. Additionally, the settings can be defined by the user according to their preferences.

Time-Shifting (delayed viewing) in MPEG2 formats
SuperVCD and DVD burning with your PCs CD- or DVD-writer.
Playback of MPEG2 files by drag-and-drop into the PCTV Vision video window

Price: $99 (inc GST)

Product Specification

PCTV Stereo low-profile PCI board
Audio cable
IR Remote control kit Includes Pinnacle infrared remote control Includes trial version of Pinnacle's award-winning Studio 8 editing software

System Requirements

PC with Pentium III 500 or Celeron 700MHz or equivalent AMD Athlon/Duron CPU 128MB of RAM
EIDE hard disk with 5GB free space
DirectX 7.0 -or higher- compatible graphics card
DirectX 9.0 -or higher - compatible sound controller