http://www.swiftworld.net/2011/12/08/hauppauge-colossus-review/ My World, Word and Story Sat, 20 Apr 2013 09:54:50 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://www.swiftworld.net/2011/12/08/hauppauge-colossus-review/comment-page-1/#comment-697557 Gary Pan Wed, 25 Apr 2012 03:30:53 +0000 http://www.swiftworld.net/?p=2589#comment-697557 Since last November I purchased Hauppauge Colossrs, I keep record HD TV shows into my computer. The major problem is that although I use 20mbps (the highest rate, with variable speeds) to record component video input and optical audio input, but the recorded video, in comparison with the live tv–which means the TV show displayed in my monitor and is very, very good–has poor quality. I don’t know why the recorded video is poor than the displayed one (so-called displayed one means the signal from set-top-box, but pass through the Colossurs PCI-e card already, no matter I’m recording but watching TV on my monitor or just watching TV on monitor with “capture” mode without enabling “record” button. My computer has 2.4MHz speed,double-cores, 4MB memory, TV signal is provided by Canada’s Rogers cable Inc., my monitor is SAMSUNG digital one with 2048×1152 with DVI cable. According my experience, the size of 55′ is roughly 6GB (which is matched with currently HD TV station’s stream size).
Other PVR has the same problem as mine? What reason to cause the poor video frame (I use “storm” player software of China company, where has a setting for video style, and I always select “vivid” mode to improve the recorded video quality, however it stil not satisfied).
Thanks in advance

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