View Full Version : HiDTV Pro 2.0 HDTV Computer Card
Gregg Lengling
10-27-2002, 01:10 PM
I know I've told everyone I bought the HiDTV Pro Viewer card (there's 2 of us with them), but I've been fighting with it for a month trying to get a clean recording. I finally found that it was using 100% of CPU usage and of course that's going to cause problems. After giving their software developers a list of my system and hardware they actually replicated the problem and told me it was their problem not mine and they would have a patch shortly.
Well that was 1 week ago and last night at 9PM I got an e-mail with a password for an FTP site to download a BETA version of new software they hope to release in the next week or so. I went and downloaded and after screwing around a while removing the software and installing the new software and upgrading drivers I fired up the card.
It works better than I ever expected, I had always been able to watch DTV and regular TV with it, but couldn't record a copy of any type of TV, it would just jump, skip and stall. Well I've recorded HighDef on the computer now and it's perfect, when I play it back (either on my computer monitor or my 61" HDTV) it's perfect. I think I'm in love now...BTW my CPU usage depending on what functions I'm doing with it now is between 25 and 45% max., so even if I'm recording I can play with the computer and not screw up the recording.
I especially like the links built in the program to TitanTV, as I just go over there and scroll through the schedule for Milwaukee and click on what I want to record and it does all the scheduling for me...talk about simple.
Anyhow if anyone was thinking about buying a card I definitely recommend this card from the guys at PC-DTV, including Jens their Sales Manager and Kevin (in Korea) one of the software developers.
http://www.pc-dtv.com/
------------------
Gregg R. Lengling
RCA P61310 61" 16x9
HiDTV Pro 2 computer reciever card
glengling@ameritech.net
Gregg Lengling
10-27-2002, 01:15 PM
By the way here's what that card can do:
HiDTV Pro Features
Watch/ Record HDTV/SDTV (ATSC standard) Watch/ Record OTA or Cable TV (NTSC standard)
TitanTV Electronic Program Guide Enhanced Input / Output
D-VHS Recording & Playback support Still Capture / Pause / Zoom
Graphical On Screen Display (OSD) Sophisticated Graphical User Interface
Full featured Remote Control System AC-3 Digital Audio
5 sec, 30 sec, 1 min & 5 min FF/FW TP File Manager (Split, Merge & List .tp files)
And it supports these operating systems: Windows 98SE, ME, 2000, XP
------------------
Gregg R. Lengling
RCA P61310 61" 16x9
HiDTV Pro 2 computer reciever card
glengling@ameritech.net
kjnorman
10-27-2002, 03:45 PM
Gregg,
What speed hard drives do you need to record HD? Are 5400rpm drives quick enough. or do you need 7200rpm drives?
Kerry
Gregg Lengling
10-27-2002, 03:54 PM
Below I've listed the hardware requirements, I haven't seen anyone on the User BBS that's had any drive problems. I'm sure a faster drive would be better but I'm sure someone out there is using 5400 rpm drives...but I'll post the question onthe board and see what answer I get.
Hardware System Requirements
Intel® Pentium®II Celeron™ 333MHz or higher
64M RAM or higher
IBM® PC or 100% compatible
One PCI 2.1 slot
CD ROM drive
50MB available free hard disk space
Microsoft® Windows® 98 SE or Me™, Windows® 2000, Windows® XP
------------------
Gregg R. Lengling
RCA P61310 61" 16x9
HiDTV Pro 2 computer reciever card
glengling@ameritech.net
Gregg Lengling
10-27-2002, 06:09 PM
Here's the answer.....so I don't see a problem with your computer and drive.
HDTV requires about 2.5 MByte/s. Any half decent modern IDE HD should be capable of over 20 MByte/s write speed. The drive would still be fast enough spinning at 1000 rpm.
------------------
Gregg R. Lengling
RCA P61310 61" 16x9
HiDTV Pro 2 computer reciever card
glengling@ameritech.net
To everything Gregg has said about the HiDTV... Ditto, 'cept I had no problems taping (ha-recording) since I received it. I am looking forward to the new software. though...
Gregg Lengling
10-27-2002, 08:38 PM
Want a copy, I can email it to ya..only if you have high speed (cable/dsl), it's bigggggggggggggggggggggggggggg.
------------------
Gregg R. Lengling
RCA P61310 61" 16x9
HiDTV Pro 2 computer reciever card
glengling@ameritech.net
If you would not mind....
mcq@ultraserv.net is DSL
mcq@mc-hugh.com is T1 (But the server here sux)
I have Ameritech DSL at home......
Thanx in advance.....
Patrick K. McHugh
P.S. How's recording working out??
Gregg Lengling
10-28-2002, 07:50 PM
Which operating system driver do you need??
P a u l
10-31-2002, 05:45 PM
tick-tick-tick bling! tick-tick-tick bling!
This is the sound of my typewriter as I type up a bill for lummox and mcq for recording copywrighted material.
tick-tick-tick bling! tick-tick-tick bling!
Oh, yeah. Please don't say I should bill the KOREAN manufactures of the card. I'm sure they included some sort of discalimer and plus our American laws probably won't hold up on Korean court.
tick-tick-tick bling! tick-tick-tick bling!
Maybe this thread should be deleted. Recording Copywrighted material is illegal!!!!
[This message has been edited by P a u l (edited 10-31-2002).]
MesaV
10-31-2002, 05:50 PM
Thank you mother!
Originally posted by P a u l:
Recording Copywrighted material is illegal!!!!
But its not illegal for personal use. Its called the "fair use" doctrine, I believe.
I was wondering about that.. Of course, I record copyrighted material all of the time... So does my wife as she is into General Hospital...
What I do NOT do is record HiDef to a distributable media for sale or trade.
And I do not fast forward through the HiDef (!?) commercials, so I am an ideal recorder person.
I believe what might have been assumed is that we are trading the recorded material. I was looking for Greg to send me a copy of the software to run our wonderful cards. While I assume that this also is copyrighted, I also assume that using it to make my card function would give me license to receive said copyrighted beta drivers for the HiDTV card.
Gregg Lengling
11-03-2002, 05:47 PM
Ah but I don't have the capability to take my HiDef recordings and put it in a distributal media for sale.....a dvd on my PC will only hold 30 minutes of HiDef and it would have to be loaded back on the hard=drive and run through the software and card to play.....so it's only MCQ and I trading programs.....right????/......not really could you see me sending mcq a 20 gig email attachment
------------------
Gregg R. Lengling
RCA P61310 61" 16x9
HiDTV Pro 2 computer reciever card
glengling@ameritech.net
I coulda recorded gladiator this weekend and sent someone the hard drive in the mail.... ROFLOL
vBulletin® v3.7.4, Copyright ©2000-2010, Jelsoft Enterprises Ltd.