Product DescriptionThe Vista View Saber DA-1N1-I is the one Tuner card that answers all your needs. The Saber 1N1 is both a high quality Analog (NTSC) tuner with hardware encoding and an HDTV (ATSC) tuner, on one low profile PCI card. Watch HDTV while you record analog TV or vice versa. The Saber DA-1N1-I?s hardware encoder does all the hard work so your computer's CPU remains free for other uses. The Saber DA-1N1-I encoder is the industry's finest, providing a much clearer and color true picture than competing last generation tuner cards. It accepts analog input from RF antenna, S-Video and Composite Video. The HDTV (ATSC) Tuner lets you watch OTA (over-the-air) HDTV, and Turn your computer into a digital PVR. Supports all ATSC standards including 1080p. The ATSC hardware is QAM capable. The Saber DA-1N1-I comes with Microsoft Vista and MCE certified BDA drivers, which work flawlessly with Microsoft Vista. The onboard video encoder means that you can use older computers with XP and leading software packages to provide all the capabilities of the newer Media Center computers. HDTV support for entire range of ATSC standard including 1080p Analog TV Encoding up to Full D1 quality (720x 480 NTSC) FCC, CE, EN55020 Certified Minimum System Requirements - CPU - 1 GHz or faster, RAM - 256 MB minimum, Microsoft XP (SP2) XP-MCE or Vista Operating System, VGA card with 64MB RAM and full hardware DirectX 9.0c support, DirectX 9.0c or higher installed, MPEG-2 decoder software installed and enabled (for play back), AC3 Audio decoder software installed and enabled (for play back), Available PCI slot, HDTV Antenna (for ATSC reception), TV Antenna or Cable TV S-Video or Composite connection (for NTSC reception)
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Rating: - Total lack of support
I purchased this card for a Windows Media Center 2005 XP computer system since it is advertised to work with it. It does not. Support to resolve the issue has been nonexistent from Vista View. All they would say is that they knew there was a problem but could not correct it until they got more information from the chip manufacturer. That was over a month ago. I found that this card would work correctly though with Sage software where it would not work with Microsoft Media Center software so I ... Read More
Rating: - Works well for me.
No new drivers since forever as far as I can tell. This makes me nervous about wether this product is being supported properly. Just a thought.
Rating: - Great quality product
So I heard about this product while looking for an HDTV tuner card for my Windows Vista Home Premium PC so I could watch and record TV from my Xbox 360 (as a media center extender) hooked up to my projector.
I decided to buy it since the few reviews it got (just google them) were pretty good. I wholeheartedly agree with them. It was very easy to install: just pop open your PC, plug it into a PCI slot, install drivers from the cd, and hooked up cables from standard cable TV and OTA HDTV ... Read More
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- Total lack of support
- Works well for me.
- Great quality product