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<blockquote data-quote="James" data-source="post: 39366" data-attributes="member: 12681">Best advice I can give is stay clear of Pinnacle cards/boxes.For my HTPC I use a 150MCE. However, at work we had two cheap USB TV boxes that came with Media PCs free. One was a Pinnacle 100e (new in box still plastic wrapped) the other was a AVerTV USB 2.0 PlusBoth are software encoders, but I thought I would give it a try on my development laptop (for a bit of fun). So the AVer worked almost without problem. All I had to do was update the software from the net send dman some info and it was up and running. The Pinnacle still doesn't work. The software it came with is very old. They make you buy the latest software !! The only free thing that Pinnacle provide is some software patches. I've applied them all 2.01-&gt; 2.02 -&gt; 2.10a -&gt; 2.11 (you have to do all the steps .. no new full program).The funnest thing is when I looked up the price of these things they cost the same as a 150MCE. The Hauppauge USB PVR costs a little more. So the question is why would anyone give good money out for these things!?/James</blockquote>

[QUOTE="James, post: 39366, member: 12681"] Best advice I can give is stay clear of Pinnacle cards/boxes. For my HTPC I use a 150MCE. However, at work we had two cheap USB TV boxes that came with Media PCs free. One was a Pinnacle 100e (new in box still plastic wrapped) the other was a AVerTV USB 2.0 Plus Both are software encoders, but I thought I would give it a try on my development laptop (for a bit of fun). So the AVer worked almost without problem. All I had to do was update the software from the net send dman some info and it was up and running. The Pinnacle still doesn't work. The software it came with is very old. They make you buy the latest software !! The only free thing that Pinnacle provide is some software patches. I've applied them all 2.01-> 2.02 -> 2.10a -> 2.11 (you have to do all the steps .. no new full program). The funnest thing is when I looked up the price of these things they cost the same as a 150MCE. The Hauppauge USB PVR costs a little more. So the question is why would anyone give good money out for these things!? /James [/QUOTE]

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