5 Responses to “Avertv HD DVR High Definition / Analog Video Capture Card MTVHDDVRR”

1. 

   Fred  on March 8th, 2010

   This card does everything it is advertised to do.
   I have a Dish network receiver with HD output in 1080p.
   The movies I have captured are amazing. I use CyberLink
   Power director 8 ultra to edit, produce and burn my videos
   to to DVD or Blu ray. The results are really nice. You must have a
   fast computer and 2gigs of ram to capture HD. As with most
   capture cards, it will not capture copyright video.
   I highly reccomend this product.
   Rating: 5 / 5

2. 

   Eriocaulon  on March 8th, 2010

   I had intended to use this device to capture some shows in 720p or 1080i from my cable DVR. Unfortunately for my box, a Scientific Atlanta, the HDMI signal is protected by HDCP, irregardless of the content. I do not fault this card for not being able to record HDMI for me therefore. That left me with the 10-in-one adapter. I hooked up the cable box via component cables and rca audio. Unfortunately, the card had trouble even coming up with a picture for no apparent reason. Most of the time, I got a black screen with audio. When I did get a picture, as soon as I pressed record, I would see stuttering on screen (and also in the recorded file)–this happened 100% of the time.

   My setup is a new computer with intel i7 920 processor, asus p6t motherboard, ATI 4830 graphics.

   Thankfully, TigerDirect allowed me to return the item.
   Rating: 2 / 5

3. 

   Richard Pinion  on March 8th, 2010

   I’m not happy with the quality of the HD picture that I’m getting through the card.
   Rating: 2 / 5

4. 

   prestond  on March 8th, 2010

   Ok my system specs are:
   Gateway DX4200 1. 8GHz QuadCore with ATI Radeon HD 3200 video card with 4 gig ram running windows vista x64

   The card installed easily, it takes a pci-e slot so make sure that you do have a pci-e slot available. I also made sure my ATI video card had the latest drivers installed.

   First, there is no windows Media Center (mce) interface offered for this card, they advertise that fact so no surprise there but dont mistake their Avermedia Center software for any resemblence of proper gui experience if you have used other media centers (MCE, XBMC, Mediaportal, Boxee, etc). It works but its lack of windows media center capability, its garish and harsh colors that burns the retina and lack of documentation (the included on disk user manual leaves much to be desired) makes the experience awkward and puzzling at times. You can eventually figure it out via trial and error. . . this effort however is on your time and dime.

   Avermedia’s defense for no windows mce interface is that Windows MCE only uses tuner devices and this is a capture device, but other products seem to have jumped that divide quite successfully (ex. Monsoon Hava product, Hauppauge HD PVR). I also understand that not all customers use windows media center or have access to it. But to limit your market potential (because thousands of mce users out there are looking for a reliable and robust high definition capture device) for lack of mce capability and having to rely on their proprietary bothersome and totally lacking software, I have to drop them a star on the review.

   When I installed the software and ran the application, Live TV is fine, but I beleive they just dump that video stream straight to the video buffer, however when recording at 1080i the software playback was slightly jerky especially on camera pans in the scene. I reinstalled the shark codecs for vista to see if that made a difference, tried various resolutions in both the software and in the set top box (STB) and even down to 480p the video was jerky on playback and played with these differnt configurations for a few hours, but no joy even at the lowest of resolutions. After a while, when I tried to change the resolution back to higher value it was stuck at 480p and eventually the application froze and I could do nothing more. Couldn’t change it and trying to rerun the wizard it just wouldnt reset, the software has no reset to default settings, I was essentially locked out. So I uninstalled the software and reinstalled it.

   Voila! It worked fine then after the 2nd reinstallation. . .

   I did have to set the resolution down to 720p with this second reinstall and that seemed fine for my hardware. If you consider this capture card you really should ensure that you have a pretty strong cpu if you want to record at 1080i. . . . like a dual core 3 Ghz. I plan on no timeshifting or PIP functionality so that doesnt require stronger cpu. As the video encoding is handled via software you must use fairly strong pc.

   I tested recording scheduled program and it started recording within a few seconds of the set time. . . just a little off by a few seconds. So you can schedule a day, time and duration of recording. But with no tuner interface or channel changing capability you must make sure that your STB is pre-tuned to the desired channel.

   Overall the card performs as advertised. . . if you have a powerful enough pc and can stomach their software. I think it would be easy enough for them to include a color change palette capability in a future release. . . and hopefully a generic non-proprietary api driver that can be accessed by other windows programs.

   I think most purchasers of this product should expect to record in 720p resolution unless they really have the cpu with the guts enough to handle this card. For my own reasons, it was my initial intention to record only in 720p so I am satisfied with that capability.

   Rating: 4 / 5

5. 

   D. Bushey  on March 8th, 2010

   I wanted this to record HD video onto my computer so I use component to connect it to my HD DVR. Recording HD looks exactly like the broadcast, not blu-ray quality but HD Cable quality and it works great. The software is good for recording but I wouldn’t use it for much else. I tried to record HD with other software like Virtual Dub but I can only use analog SD with it but that’s alright.
   Rating: 5 / 5

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