Advantages: Watch TV on your PC! Record TV programmes with your PC! Record your home made videos onto your PC! So ruddy cheap!
Disadvantages: Needs PC to work, sound is mono, has to be PCI version to be cheap.

.... Now how does a child like him manage to get a TV Card with his sort of pocket money and get good quality for his money? Simple! He went and bought himself a Hauppauge WinTV Express card. This card is an analogue type card (meaning that it isn't digital) that arrives in a rather large box unbefitting the contents that are contained within. You get merely the TV Card, audio cable to link the card to your sound card, manual and software CD. You can hear it rattling around inside the box as you shake it, the box blatantly wasting precious card with all that space. But although I mourn the trees' wasted timbre (ish), the card itself is a very high quality piece of equipment. Unpacking the card was a cinch seeing as there wasn't much packaged in the first place. Installing it was easy as pie as well, requiring you to dismantle your PC... Read review

Ciao members have rated this review on average helpful

Advantages: good softwafe backup runs well
Disadvantages: it's a bit out of date, price

...hope this helps you if you are thinking of buying this card, I have had this card for about a year it's now a middle of the road card but you can play all the games out there, I play battlefield 2 and I think it's best to run that game on middle setings as when I have it all on high I seem to get a lot of lag, you could get this card for about £100 now .the software you get with the card is very easy to use and if you wish you could even overclock the card.The only other thing that holds this card back is the fan is a little bit loud and you could do with more fans as it runs a little hot and its getting a bit dated. So if you need to play games with a lot of detail and you don't have a big budget then this is the card for you but you must check your motherboard has pci-express and the power as some motherboard will not run this card... Read review

Ciao members have rated this review on average helpful

Advantages: Fast | Quiet | Handles video conversion exceptionally well |
Disadvantages: The file system it comes with

...moving files between drives is a quick and easy process, and I don't hear any strange noises coming from the drives even after extended use. --Graphics Card-- The supplied graphics card is a 256MB ATi X600 Pro PCI Express which is in the Radeon range, provides crystal clear graphics and handles video playback extremely well. I find DVD (and AVI) playback is smooth, glitch free and looks better than ever. I can't really say any more about how it performs, because as I said this is NOT used as a gaming machine. --Optical Drives-- There are two optical drives, a basic DVD-ROM drive, which works perfectly well and reads DVDs and CD-ROMs without difficulty. But the extra special drive is the 16x DL Sony DVD Rewriter, that can write to both + and - formats of DVD-R (along with their re-writer equivalents) at speeds of up to 16x... Read review

Ciao members have rated this review on average very helpful

Advantages: Easy to install
Disadvantages: None

...I have bought this PCI card a week ago. Reason: I have got a MSI K7T266Pro2 motherboard that only offer USB1.1 ports (1.5Mbytes/s maximum transfer rate). Since I have got devices that uses USB2.0 and without breaking my piggy bank to upgrade my computer, the most economical way is to install a PCI card that offers USB2.0 connections (up to 480Mbits/s or 60Mbytes/s, 40X faster than USB1.1) for 1 internal port and 4 external ports. Before you buy a USB2.0 PCI card, make sure that your motherboard got version 2.2 PCI slots which are USB2.0 compatible. If your motherboard hasn't got version 2.2 PCI slots or higher, don't bother. You need a motherboard upgrade. Also, your operating system needs to be windows 2000 service pack 4 or windows XP which provides appropriate drivers to support USB2.0. For the other operation systems... Read review

Ciao members have rated this review on average helpful

Advantages: Very Cheap For Something That Should Cost A Lot More
Disadvantages: I haven't Found Any Yet

...I've only had this PCI128 Creative Sound Card for a few days, and wow!!! It was so easy to install, and the software that came with it is excellent. The software can play any