Leadtek Winfast TV2000XP FM/TV Tuner Card (3)
Overclocker 6 Aug 2002

Configuration & TV Tuning

The following are screen shots are captured when it's operating in TV mode. The shot below is the simple interface is where most of the functions are accessed. From this screen, you can configure the channels, take snap shots of the current tv channel, incr/decr volume of the channel selected. Finally is the circular button which functions both as a playback and recording button.

Before you start recording, it is necessary to hook up the TV antenna and execute the local TV scanner to scan for all channels available. In the software are readily available Areas (countries) which you could choose which automatically selectes PAL or NTSC depending on the country you live in. You can scan the channels and it will assign it to the Channel Name,

The screen below can be used to tune the Brightness, contrast, hue and saturation of the tv broadcast received.

Recording

Before you record, it is necessary to set certain parameters which will ensure the best image quality vs disk usage. The Capture Format Profile allows you to choose between various formats of encoding. Some of which are Windows Media standard, MPEG1, MPEG2 encoding. You can also choose the Frame Rate as 25 fps and the time limit, Size limit and the drive/directory to store your video captured.

The screen below is a screen capture of the PIP for current video + playback of recorded show. In this case, we are playing back the video we recorded earlier (Blockbuster Sunday) and watching the test pattern from a TV station at the same time.

Scheduled Recording

WinFast TV2000XP would probably be a VCR replacement as it has the flexibility to be programmed to record TV program off the TV channels in various capture format. You can also schedule it to be a weekly recording at various times of the day.

The is the screen where you add the schedules. One thing I noticed during the test is that the software must be minimised, otherwise it wouldn't record. This seems to be a bug of the TV2000XP software.

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