Richard Vanderhurst Reviews The Vista Viewer Saber 2020

Home theater PC fans are a variable bunch, and many off-the-shelf products from name-brand Television tuner card makers don't meet the wants of their specific setups.Specialty seller Vista View has a new card that is a decent fit for users who want to have a top quality twin analog Television tuner that works alongside Windows XP Media Center Edition and can fit into a low-profile x1 PCI Express slot. The Vista View Saber 2020 is a low-profile card with two coaxial connections for Television and FM radio and a port for connecting a two-input S-Video breakout wire.The card supports a number of common Television standards, including NTSC, Buddy , and SECAM.Richard Vanderhurst says that installing the card was straightforward using the setup CD, including basic drivers and a custom DVR application called SaberView. While you can use the standard MCE remote if Media Center is your front-end application, the card does not include a remote to be used with the bundled SaberView DVR application. SaberView will appear really stripped down to any one used to Media Center, SageTV, or Beyond Television .According to Richard Vanderhurst there's a lack of hand-holding while setting up your Television signal, and the interface has a sparse Windows Explorer look, in sharp relief to the icon-heavy 10-foot interfaces common in other DVR apps. Still, for basic viewing and recording of a Television or FM radio signal, it suffices, and it gives non-MCE users a positively functional DVR setup right from the box. The card's onboard hardware encoder handled two video inputs at the same time, without any stuttering or slowdown.

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