FusionHDTV5 USB

[bdarling]

I couldn't find a DVICO support forum, so I thought I'd post here since I bought my FusionHDTV5 USB through SnapStream. While the digital picture is fantastic, Analog stations and video-in are poor. When viewing analog stations the picture will jump every few seconds and there will be ocasional bars of green pixels that appear in the picture. Is this common of all units, or is mine defective in some way? I'll try the newest software when I get home tonight.

I don't think I'll return it. Basically every over-the-air station in my area broadcasts in digital anyway. I'm more concerned about the video in since I was thinking of converting my vhs tapes, but its not a big deal for me.

Thanks.

[HomeyFour]

The Dvico cards are software encoding when it comes to SD programming - this puts a major burden on your system CPU. Could be this is what is causing the jumpiness?

[bdarling]

I've got an AMD64 3200+ and 1.5gigs. Its a laptop with a ATI Radeon 9700 (128MB) video card that has no real up-to-date drivers available (the video card, I mean).

I don't think its my CPU, but I wouldn't be surprised if the video card had something to do with it. The digital stations look great though, so i don't see why that would be the case (and its not just the impossibility of a perfect analog signal... all stations and even video-in with nothing at all have the same thing).

edit: I did just have a thought... Being a laptop it does tend to throttle down the CPU to conserve power. It still seems strange to me that the problem would present itself only with analog signals and not digital. I'd think the processing of hdtv signals would be much more cpu-intensive.

[RobDMB]

Are there any hdtv cards that also provide hardware encoding for standard definition?

[jebbbz]

The only HDTV tuner for PCs that includes hardware encoding for analog TV is the Sasem/On-Air external USB model. It only works with its own software and it costs about $250.00.