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« on: May 22, 2006, 10:09:47 PM »
http://www.anandtech.com/multimedia/showdoc.aspx?i=2761
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« Reply #1 on: May 23, 2006, 12:12:43 AM »
They actually dared to compare it to an AIW? Also, no Hauppauge comparisons, especially against the PVR-500?!
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« Reply #2 on: May 23, 2006, 07:51:55 AM »
Seemed like a lame review to me. A brief mention of the pvr500 at the end saying that it's the only comparable card and they don't even compare them?? As for the AIW, I thought I'd read that the new AIW actually had hardware encoding. Anyone know if this is true?
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« Reply #3 on: May 23, 2006, 08:32:31 AM »
Thanks for the post SuperG, my beef is with the lame reviewer... How can you judge the quality of the cards video recording based on three totally different screen shots?  Come on reviewers, at least make an effort to have the same screen shot (or close to it) for letting us see for ourselves if we see any differences! What a  crappy!
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« Reply #4 on: May 23, 2006, 10:02:10 AM »
It's an awful review. Mine is coming shortly with the re-launch of HTPCnews.com I can tell you it is far more indepth then that POS.
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« Reply #5 on: May 23, 2006, 04:29:06 PM »
cripes people..... crappy

I won't post them anymore.....it was just info, nobody put them up for the nobel writting award.
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« Reply #6 on: May 23, 2006, 07:46:47 PM »
Quote from: SuperG on May 23, 2006, 04:29:06 PM
cripes people..... crappy

I won't post them anymore.....it was just info, nobody put them up for the nobel writting award.


Why do you assume it's your issue?
All you did was post the link Wink

We're not trying to shoot the messenger. Just saying how poor Anandtech did on that.
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« Reply #7 on: May 23, 2006, 11:02:34 PM »
I agree, keep posting. Then it's easier to understand where people's opinions come from.
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« Reply #8 on: May 24, 2006, 10:35:44 AM »
Quote from: Miller on May 23, 2006, 07:51:55 AM
As for the AIW, I thought I'd read that the new AIW actually had hardware encoding. Anyone know if this is true?
Just noticed this comment...
Nope. ATI has the Theater 550 Pro if you want hardware encoding.

This is addressed in the anandtech article on page 3:
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One more thing to note about the AIW cards is that they don't have MPEG-2 encoding in hardware
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« Reply #9 on: May 24, 2006, 12:12:05 PM »
Quote from: SuperG on May 23, 2006, 04:29:06 PM
cripes people..... crappy

I won't post them anymore.....it was just info, nobody put them up for the nobel writting award.



writting award, eh?

Yeah, nobody was blaming you superG.  I appreciate the posts.  Depending on the link and my mood I'll promote it to the front page news section Smiley

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« Reply #10 on: May 30, 2006, 08:43:08 AM »
Sphere's review has been posted over at hptcnews.

http://www.htpcnews.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=174&Itemid=26
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« Reply #11 on: May 30, 2006, 12:24:09 PM »
The Nvidia looks good, but I don't plan on trading in my Hauppauge cards.
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