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bklevan
10-24-04, 12:49 PM
im planning on buying the 5700 PCI 128 MB video card. This has a TV plug in feature so i can watch tv on my computer. Can i also record TV on my computer?
msxyz
10-24-04, 12:52 PM
Sorry if I ask, but are you sure that this card has a "video in" feature rather than a standard tv-output ? It seems strange for a PCI-card
bklevan
10-24-04, 01:02 PM
sorry, tv output. you're right
bklevan
10-24-04, 01:03 PM
can i record tv on my computer with it?
ragejg
10-24-04, 01:30 PM
No, the card does not have VIVO (Video In Video Out) ... I don't think there's any PCI cards with that feature save for the few ATI All-In-Wonder PCI cards...
bklevan
10-24-04, 02:09 PM
what is better than... the visiontek 9100 PCI 128MB or the Geforce 5700 PCI 128MB?
superklye
10-24-04, 02:28 PM
No, the card does not have VIVO (Video In Video Out) ... I don't think there's any PCI cards with that feature save for the few ATI All-In-Wonder PCI cards...

Well, are you talking about just PCI GPUs? Because Hauppauge and MANY others make PVR cards...
bklevan
10-24-04, 03:05 PM
im talking about just PCI cards
superklye
10-24-04, 03:19 PM
im talking about just PCI cards
that didn't answer my question though. Just PCI GPUs or do you have an AGP video card and were looking for a second video card for TV-in? Because as I said, Haupppauge makes really good cards and perhaps their best card, the WinTV PVR-250, is only $80 after $50MIR this week at Circuit City
bklevan
10-24-04, 03:35 PM
i have a PCI only system and im looking for the best PCI video card to put in it
superklye
10-24-04, 03:55 PM
i have a PCI only system and im looking for the best PCI video card to put in it
okay, now I gotcha.

Get an All-in-Wonder then since just a PVR won't do anything for you other than record TV shows...you won't have a monitor to watch them on. ;)
bklevan
10-24-04, 04:09 PM
will this all in wonder play far cry?
superklye
10-24-04, 06:39 PM
will this all in wonder play far cry?
Yup.

The 9600 AiW is a Radeon 9600 video card along with ViVo (Video In Video Out) so you can record TV shows onto your personal machine.

I think there's a 9700 AiW and possible a 9800 AiW, however, I don't know if they make PCI ones or not.
msxyz
10-25-04, 04:04 AM
Far Cry need also quite a powerful system. Is your PC really up to it ?

The only mobos without AGP I've seen in the past 5 years were from the server market.