Hi Everyone! I got myself a Leadtech TV tuner card on Wednesday and thus far I'm extremely happy with it, yes the access to the software could be a little better but at $120.00 for a HD tuner card? Well I guess you get what you pay for and (if you're patient and prepared to learn the software) then you can use many of the tuners features, I've only been playing with this for less than 3 days so I'm bound to keep finding out more.
Firstly, if you're a Window-eyes or JAWS user then you're going to need to use the mouse pointer or JAWS cursor a fair bit to navigate around but my answer to this is simple, at least these 2 pieces of software provide you with the tools to "navigate" and when you use these tools, you'll find access to the software quite easy, let's take a small example. The PVR which comes bundled with this tuner has many shortcuts and they help, for instance if you load the PVR and press f9 the Scheduler pops up, move the mouse to the top left of the window and scroll down, the first button you come to is the "Add" button, scroll down again and you come to the "edit" button and so forth. Ok, click on the "add" button and a new schedule page appears, fill in the details as required such as starting time, ending time, channel and so forth, you can navigate the various combo edit boxes in the schedule page, once you've completed the page press "ok", you'll have to find the "ok" button to quit the scheduler altogether with the mouse pointer but again that's not too difficult, something you can do with the "find" command. By default, video is captured from the tuner in MPG (uncompressed video) format so be prepared to use a fair bit of disk space but this has its advantages, you can compress the video to your liking or (if you have sighted assistance <smile>), you can perform editing jobs on what you've recorded. Well that's about as far as I've gone for now, I have the card on trial but I'm going to buy it, just for the scheduler alone I think its worth the money and the picture is absolutely superb according to people who have looked at it. This card will record both analogue and digital HDTV as well as FM radio but I've not even looked at this, I have enough FM radio devices in my house thanks very much and in any case, I prefer to use my Radio Shark from Griffin Technology as its far more convenient. I'll be happy to answer further questions if I can and (when I remember it) I'll supply the list with the model number of the card. Ah yes and before I forget to tell you, the card processes the video its recording on-board and it can start up your computer from "standby" or "hybonate" modes. ****************************** Dane Trethowan From Melton Victoria Australia mailto:Dane Trethowan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> phone +61 3 8732 9237 Fax/TTY +61 3 9743 7954 mobile/sms: +614 418 773 532 MSN: [EMAIL PROTECTED] skype: callto:grtdane12 ****************************** Jonathan Mosen List Founder Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
