Compro VideoMate DVB-E700 Digital TV Internal PCI-E (1 Viewer)

[Beechus]

Hey everyone,

I'm in the market for a new TV card... i've come accross this one, but need your oppinion on if it will work or not..

It's the Compro VideoMate DVB-E700

The description is:

Compro VideoMate E700 is a dual PCI-E DVB-T tuner card, which brings 2 high-quality main channels digital terrestrial TV watching on your desktop PC, and turns your computer into a home entertainment center by bringing digital TV viewing, power up scheduling, remote power on/off, and personal digital video recording (DVR) capabilities.

- Dual DVB-T digital terrestrial TV reception
- Scan channels from the dual DVB-T tuners at once to save half scanning time
- High-Speed PCI-Express x 1 interface for better performance
- Watch 2 main digital TV channels at the same time
- Compro exclusive S5/S4/S3 mode Power Up Scheduled Recording
- Convenient Remote Controlled Power On/Off
- Support SDTV and 1080i HDTV (where available)
- Timeshift to pause and instant replay of live TV
- Advanced PIP/POP feature can open up to 2 main channel, 2 sub channel windows and also 1 recorded video files at the same time
- Video Desktop can setup the live TV screen as wallpaper
- Customize channel order and favorite channel list
- Customize Brightness, Hue, Saturation, Contrast, Sharpness, and audio channels in each TV channel
- Single / sequentially still frame captures and remote snapshot
- Straight-to-Disc recording digital TV to DVD discs
- Supports MPEG-2 and Transport Stream record/playback
- Support EPG, subtitle, & Teletext (where available, not support MHEG-5 in UK)
- Fully functional IR remote for TV and DVD
- Microsoft MCE2005 and media center feature support
- Certified for Windows Vista 32/64Bit OS

 

[Paranoid Delusion]

Does it have BDA drivers.

If not Terratec Cinergy 2400i does work with TVE3.

Why, here's a reason

 

[dman_lfc]

Yes it has BDA drivers.
I seem to recall there are issues with standby & resume without it's bundled application.
Something to do with a power connector on the card or something similar.

DMAN