Gainward Hollywood@Home™ TV2Go

[BJ_M]

TV2Go is the best solution to turn a desktop or notebook PC into a fully featured video entertainment center. You can watch 125-channel TV, record, edit and burn DVD/VCD from live TV and transfer all your favorite tapes into digital DVD/VCD format with 28-key card type Remote Control.



FEATURES
TV2GO - Personal Video Recorder(PVR) plus TV Tuner

Ultra Mini USB 2.0 TVR Tuner and MPEG recording and editing .
125-channel cable ready TV receiver with multi-channel preview.
Full motion video recording, editin
Editing and DVD/VCD burning .
View, stop, replay and record anytime with the “ time-shifting ”.
“ Snapshot ” captures still images from live TV or video playback.
Titling, audio tracks, background music, and 10 special effect filters
28-key card type Remote Control
Requires Windows XP/2000 and Windows Media Player 6.4 or higher




e-Albums
TV2GO has a highly integrated multimedia digital shell capable of storing photo, video and audio files in individual " albums " with advanced file management supporting drag-and-drop from album-to-album and from application-to-album

DVD Burner
DVD Burner creates DVD, VCD, and SVCD for playing on a home DVD player. With TV2GO and bundled MPEG Encoder and DVD Burner, you could transfer all your video tapes into digital DVD/VCD format!

MPEG Encoder
Record video or TV programs in DVD quality using Gainward's easy-to-use MPEG-1/MPEG-2/MPEG-4 encoder software. The MPEG encoding engine capture, compress and save full length motion video with no loss of video quality.

Video Source: TV, VCR, Camcorder
Video Input: Coaxial, S-Video, Composite Video
Video Recording Formats: DVD (720x480-NTSC)
SVCD (480x480-NTSC)
VCD (352x240-NTSC)
MPEG Editor
Make You Own Videos with Ease. Gainward's powerful MPEG Editor supports MPEG-1 (VCD), MPEG-2 (DVD), AVI, DV-AVI (for digital camcorder), and WMV (Windows Media Video format) file formats for digital video editing.

Frame-by-frame full rendering
Group Of Picture (GOP) editing with fast Cut and Merge
Smart Rendering
GOP for MPEG files and "Key Frame" for AVI files
Fast encoding only the edited parts, not the entire video
Text/animated title overlay. Audio track and background music
10 special video effect filters (color filters, transition, merge, etc)

http://www.gainwardusa.com/products/TV2GO_PC.htm

[Suntan]

Not trying to be sarcastic, but whats so great about it? It doesn't do Hidef and it is software encoding based. So all I see is a usb2 based standard def tvtuner with a remote.

Is the software package that it comes with really good? (Not that it needs to be all that good to upstage most of the compition in this area.)

-Suntan

[Greg12]

I Notice that it does MP4 I thiink i saw this unit in Tiger Direct magazine

[Capmaster]

I wouldn't be interested at all. I see it as another effort to combine TV with the PC. Maybe I'm old school, but I'd rather watch my movies on my TV and use the PC for other things like creating the movies, e-mail, this board, etc. I spend enough time in front of the PC as it is

The only possible exception would be a business trip where I frequently take a laptop with and watch movies on the plane

[stiltman]

I'll stick with my ATI AIW 9000 pro