Leadtek LeadTek Winfast TV2000XP TV/FM Multimedia Card

(MPN: 32500230)

Description: WinFast TV2000 XP is a tunercard and enables your PC to receive TV- and radio-channels. TV2000 XP can be attached to the established predecessor TV2000 and has as well as the software developed further. This card supports the current format.... Read More

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Date Reviewed: 03/04/2003
spopla from LA Member Since: Sep 2002 View Member's: Reviews Product Experience: 2 Months	Great product. I did a lot of research and this se ... Strengths: 1) Easy to install and use- very intuitive interface app 2) EPG available with new download from Leadtek site 3) Large amount of codecs to choose from for recording 4) Nice remote included Weaknesses: Doesn't look as good as a dedicated TV (but no TV display on a computer monitor really looks good on a comp. monitor) Summary: Great product. I did a lot of research and this seems to be the best card in the pricerange, although recently I heard of another card that uses a newer version of the Conexant chip used in this card. Has a 10-bit DAC that produces a nice picture. The very affordable way to bring Tivo-like capabilities to your computer. The newest version of the application has an EPG that uses Titan TV to schedule and record programs. Do the research and grab this card now. 100% of People (2/2) found this review helpful. Was this review helpful or unhelpful for you? Report this as inappropriate. There are no comments for this review. Post a comment.

Date Reviewed: 12/24/2002
peterdebbu from MN Member Since: Dec 2002 View Member's: Reviews Product Experience: 4 Days	i purchased the "deluxe" version because that was ... Strengths: fairly good sharpness and color, or really good considering what it costs. good jpeg capture image. Weaknesses: it does not record properly and does not remember user settings. Summary: i purchased the "deluxe" version because that was all the store had. the advertizing on the box gives you the impression that this thing can do all kinds of neat stuff, and it probably can if you can get it to work. the main problem i had was that it does not record properly. when you stop recording it writes the file to disk, automatically rewinds and starts playing at about 10 or 20 times faster than real time. if you try to play the file with the windows media player you get about 1 or 2 seconds of audio but no video. i have spent at least 15 hours trying to get this thing to work.i have installed and uninstalled and reinstalled this thing and the video card, the audio card and the ethernet card in different pci slots but it has made no difference. perhaps it's called xp because it only works with xp and not 98se or anything else, who knows? 100% of People (1/1) found this review helpful. Was this review helpful or unhelpful for you? Report this as inappropriate. There are no comments for this review. Post a comment.

Date Reviewed: 01/10/2003
mws from VA Member Since: Jan 2003 View Member's: Reviews Product Experience: 12 Days	picture quality is acceptable in full screen mode ... Strengths: Very easy setup with configuration button to select audio & video choices; Weaknesses: none (for this price) Summary: picture quality is acceptable in full screen mode (good in smaller window); recording video segments from TV or camera is one button (make sure to set sound source in config). 83% of People (5/6) found this review helpful. Was this review helpful or unhelpful for you? Report this as inappropriate. There are no comments for this review. Post a comment.

Date Reviewed: 11/04/2003
NEZ Member Since: Nov 2003 View Member's: Reviews Product Experience: 4 Months	I bought three of these cards thinking it was a fl ... Strengths: installed easy Weaknesses: wont go down the toilet bowl. took over the sound card on startup reinstalling the sound card drivers didnt remedy it. Summary: I bought three of these cards thinking it was a fluke but realized it was the card. they installed fine and worked well after the install but none of the cards lasted for two weeks before they stoped working. They wouldnt except the software though the OS did reconize them as being installed as hardware. All the cards were done on two new systems boards via 600's. I have yet to hear back from leadtek regaurding the complaint I sent 5 weeks ago. I hope this isnt an indication of leadteks line of products as well as support. 67% of People (2/3) found this review helpful. Was this review helpful or unhelpful for you? Report this as inappropriate. There are no comments for this review. Post a comment.

Date Reviewed: 10/16/2003
StompinRound Member Since: Jun 2002 View Member's: Reviews Product Experience: 1 Years	Probably the simplest to use interface there is, s ... Strengths: Very easy to use, Excellent software, Remote control, Not effected by Macromedia protection from Camcorders, VCRs or DVD Players. Weaknesses: None (especially when compared to others at this price up to double the price) Summary: Probably the simplest to use interface there is, simply record, edit with your favorite software and burn to DVD using your favorite burning software. If you can operate a VCR then you can use this one without any special knowledge, right out of the box! Driver and software install is extremely simple when compared to some competitors. 67% of People (2/3) found this review helpful. Was this review helpful or unhelpful for you? Report this as inappropriate. There are no comments for this review. Post a comment.

Date Reviewed: 01/09/2004
jgouston from CA Member Since: Jan 2004 View Member's: Reviews Product Experience: 5 Days	When just after the installation, I was impressed ... Strengths: easy installation Weaknesses: Poor quality control. A/V loss sync Summary: When just after the installation, I was impressed by its easier installation and rich features (time shift was really neat). However, after I started to use it, I found 1) poor quality control - the remote wasn't working at first. 2) audio and video lost sync immediately when setting video resolution to "high". 3) some time the picture will be cut off (like zoom in effect w/o my control) after couple of "record/stop" actions. Since I am just living in Fremont that a few blocks away from Leadtek's customer support facility, I got chance to go Leadtek's office to get a new remote control after I made a customer support call. Tried out the new remote, it still didn't work. Then I went to office again to replace the TV card. Finally the remote worked, but the FM antenna adapt on this new card didn't match the antenna I got from the retail box. So I had come back to office again to get anther antenna. This time, everything seams functional. But when I touch the cable which connected to the card, I found some channel get bad signal. So finally, I gave up and sent it back to the retail. In the experience of testing out two cards, A/V out of sync was always the problem even though I loaded the most recently version of software (drive and application), and my PC (1.7 GHz Pentium IV with 1 GB RAM) was powerful enough. Of course this problem went away when in lower video resolution. I believe this card is not ready to mainstream customer. Leadteck should not sell it in this stage. 60% of People (3/5) found this review helpful. Was this review helpful or unhelpful for you? Report this as inappropriate. There are no comments for this review. Post a comment.

Date Reviewed: 01/28/2003
silverbullet Member Since: Jan 2003 View Member's: Reviews Product Experience: 4 Weeks	The Leadtek TV2000 XP Deluxe does exactly what it ... Strengths: great quality... easy capturing... nice sound too Weaknesses: none Summary: The Leadtek TV2000 XP Deluxe does exactly what it is touted to do, and it does them well. Makes capturing video easy with tons of options, too!! 50% of People (1/2) found this review helpful. Was this review helpful or unhelpful for you? Report this as inappropriate. There are no comments for this review. Post a comment.