This is just a place for a "mini-review" of the my TV Tuner experience so far with the 8890. It has been nothing but postitive.
One reason I had wanted the TV Tuner is to record archived shows on my TiVO so that I could clean them off of there and not have to put them on a VHS tape. The 8890's TV Tuner works great for this purpose.
First, I had to install the TV Studio software from here:
http://talknotebooks.com/showthread....&threadid=2618
and not the CD since we have hyperthreading.
Next, I tried both the Coax output from the TiVO into the 8890 and the S-Video/Audio Line-In method and both work great! My eyes can't see a difference between the COAX and S-Video quality, but I'm sure the S-Video is better all the same.
In order to do the 2nd method you need a little Red/White stereo jack to line-in converter cable easily purchased at your local electronics store.
For direct encoding into MPEG2, TV Studio's VCR functionality seems to be fine, though I couldn't encode into 720x480 (DVD) resolution; it always seemed to choose 640x480.
My preferred method of getting the videos to be DVD ready was to use Nero's "capture video" function (the Nero software came with the DVD burner if you purchased that option with your 8890) to capture DVI video then use another program (I used Adobe Premiere Pro but you can get something for $20) to convert it to MPEG2. I haven't tried capturing directly into Premiere yet, I'll give that a shot this weekend.
Anyway, happy capturing!
One reason I had wanted the TV Tuner is to record archived shows on my TiVO so that I could clean them off of there and not have to put them on a VHS tape. The 8890's TV Tuner works great for this purpose.
First, I had to install the TV Studio software from here:
http://talknotebooks.com/showthread....&threadid=2618
and not the CD since we have hyperthreading.
Next, I tried both the Coax output from the TiVO into the 8890 and the S-Video/Audio Line-In method and both work great! My eyes can't see a difference between the COAX and S-Video quality, but I'm sure the S-Video is better all the same.
In order to do the 2nd method you need a little Red/White stereo jack to line-in converter cable easily purchased at your local electronics store.
For direct encoding into MPEG2, TV Studio's VCR functionality seems to be fine, though I couldn't encode into 720x480 (DVD) resolution; it always seemed to choose 640x480.
My preferred method of getting the videos to be DVD ready was to use Nero's "capture video" function (the Nero software came with the DVD burner if you purchased that option with your 8890) to capture DVI video then use another program (I used Adobe Premiere Pro but you can get something for $20) to convert it to MPEG2. I haven't tried capturing directly into Premiere yet, I'll give that a shot this weekend.
Anyway, happy capturing!
