Moving from my beloved Marvel question?

[rei]

I've hung onto my Marvel G200TV up to now for its excellent video compression and TV features, since I couldn't find a good TV card with MPEG encoding in hardware.

Has anyone seen the WinTV-PVR? (Personal Video Recorder) and have any opinions on its hardware MPEG2 encoder?
http://www.hauppauge.com/html/wintvpvr_datasheet.htm

I'd like the improved 3D performance, so I might just buy one of these and throw it in tandem with a GeForce2MX TwinView, I've become pretty disgusted to find out the Marvel G400TV is more expensive than a Radeon A-I-W and matrox.com being the online place to get them anymore.

I've stuck with Matrox for a long time and continue to recommend it, but the pricing just has to come down to earth.

[Dr Mordrid]

My understanding of early WinTV PVR's is that the video quality is less than one might expect. What you might want to look for is the new Sigma Designs RealMagic DVR;

http://www.sigmadesigns.com/products/dvr.htm

Dr. Mordrid

[Phil Pugh]

Looks like a nice card but at Uk £800 (~US $1200) it isn't the worlds cheapest solution! I'll wait until the price drops a bit. Looking at the on-line manual it doesn't mention SVCD, only VCD and DVD. It has preset capture for VCD (v2.0) but you would have to manually setup the MPEG2 params for SVCD captures - which may mean post processing (e.g. demux/remux) to get compliant SVCD files for burning. But it could be a very nice product.