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    Best TV tuner solution for TZ

    Discussion in 'VAIO / Sony' started by Polter, Jan 22, 2008.

  1. Polter

    Polter Notebook Enthusiast

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    Hi all,
    After reading almost every day this forum for the past months, I've decided to finally get my own Vaio TZ21XN/B at 2,500 euros (1,2GHz, 2Gb, 100Gb HDD, DVD-RW). Now I'm looking for the best solution regarding a TV tuner.
    I've borrowed a WinTV-HVR 900 by Hauppauge (Hybrid TV tuner USB stick) and it works quite well but I've noticed that it gets rather hot and sometimes, when I use the other USB port there are slight lipsyncing problems (May be the infamous USB design issues of the TZ). Apart from that, I think that the WinTV-HVR, encodes video in MPEG-2 in order to pass it though USB and so there is a 1~2 seconds delay in live feed comparing it to my TV.
    I 've found two Express Card TV tuners at about the same price (Terratec Cinergy HT Express and Avermedia GM-Express 577 Hybrid AVT-R ). Apart from getting one more free USB port is there any other advantage in using an express TV card? Is the Express Card slot on the TZ any faster than the USB ports? There might also be an issue with the heat an express card produces inside my TZ.. Has anybody used any express card tv tuner on the TZ?

    Thanx!
     
    Polter, Jan 22, 2008
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