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Cheap TV tuner card
pk27 at hotmail
Mar 20, 2003, 2:01 PM
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A deal site I watch says on Friday, Compusa will have a TV tuner card for
$4.99 after rebate. Thought some people might find this useful.

Compusa 6 hour sale, Mar 20
CompUSA starts their 6 hour sale on Friday 6pm to Midnight in store.
Hopefully it will be available online sometime Friday!

I/O Magic personal Video recorder PCI card $4.99AR (285584), HP photosmart
1115 refurbished (300871), Acomdata 60GB external usb hard drive $79.99
(301786), Belkin 802.11g router $79.99AR (300875)

I have read on the net that this is a Pinnacle PCTV card (bt878)

Pinnacle PCTV
chips: bt878A,HCF4052

Pinnacle PCTV, sold as IOMagic PC PVR

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RE: Cheap TV tuner card [ In reply to ]
rkulagowski at thrupoint
Mar 20, 2003, 3:05 PM
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Well, if it's the same one that I got, it's not. It's made by
pinnacle, but there are a few things wrong with it. (Or maybe not
wrong, depending on what you're expecting for $4.99)

1. There's no MSP34xx chip, so no btaudio.
2. It's mono. The specs may say stereo, but from reading the forums
over on I/O Magic when I first got this card, it's mono, and the same
signal is fed to the L and R channel. That's not stereo. :)

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