Diamond PVR-600 USB2 TV tuner now for sale in the SnapStream Store
April 28th, 2005 at 6:09 am by Rakesh
As of last week, we starting shipping the Diamond PVR-600 USB2 TV tuner in the SnapStream Store. We’re excited about this new TV tuner for a bunch of reasons. First, I’ll run you through the basic specs on the card — the Diamond PVR-600 is a USB2 analog TV tuner with an MPEG-2 hardware encoder. The MPEG-2 hardware encoder means you get high quality TV recordings without taxing your PCs processor (ie all the heavy lifting of encoding is done by the TV tuner, not the processor on your PC). But these things don’t set it apart from other USB2 hardware encode TV tuner cards. What sets the PVR-600 apart are two things:
1) It’s bus-powered: this means that the device doesn’t require a separate power adapter — it gets all the power it needs from its USB connection to your PC. This may not seem like a huge deal, but it does make the card a lot easier to install and use. Let’s face it — everyone’s powerstrips are already pretty crowded and to add another power connection can be annoying. It’s also one less point of failure — you don’t have to worry anymore about the power adapter getting unplugged.
2) It has a great form factor: The PVR-600 is nice and small — slightly larger than a deck of cards. This makes it easy to tuck away in your living room, behind your home theater PC. Or if it’s visible in your home theater system rack, it’s a pretty good looking, svelte piece of hardware.
And like other TV tuner cards that we sell in the SnapStream store, the PVR-600 has been thoroughly tested with Beyond TV so you can expect it to “just work” with your PC when you install it.
The PVR-600 is available bundled with SnapStream Beyond TV or standalone.