Leadtek TV2000 XP Deluxe or Expert.Anyone has either ?

[The Therion]

For my purposes (not perfect ,but good quality, no too costly) this card seems to be the best choice from a small research i did on the net.

Unfortunately not even Leadtek's websites answer everything,so i'd like opinios from users on this card.

What are the resolutions it can capture in ?
Can it capture in any capture/compression codec i can install on the machine ?
What is the difference between the Deluxe model and the new Expert model ?
Do these models do hardware capture or software ?
How do you guys use them ? What resolutions,formats etc.What are the results ? Do you get good quality ? Dropped frames ?

Thanks for reading, and pardon the ocassional silly questions
:o

[commando57]

I have one. I like it. I record from OTA to mpeg1 mostly. I run XP Home. There is some info here.

http://www.dvdrhelp.com/capturecards.php?CaptureCardRead=Leadtek%20WinFast%20TV2000%20XP&Search=Search

[The Therion]

many thanks :)

There was plenty of info there,but there also seems to be a lot of confusion about what the card can or cannot do :(

I'm mainly intrested in knowing if the card can :

--capture @ 720x576 or 768x576 (and in which compressions)
--work well under windows xp SP1

--how does one get around the not good captured sound quality problem

[commando57]

I am not near the computer with the card on it but
I know it will capture in the 700's with the updated drivers.
I use it with XP home SP1 and it works well, except it doesn't play well with my cd burner (it will make it reboot!)It works on my computer with with native (?) drivers with Virtualdub but will not capture any higher than 352 X 240, I tried some other drivers and got the opportunity to use XP's restore function for the first time.
It uses the sound card to record and does a good job, I use windows pcm mode ,it says it can use any compression but I havn't tried that.
It does have issues with audio sync on a movie length capture with
the updated drivers. No sync problems with the wdm drivers and Virtualdub however. Try the card, I will buy it if you don't like it.
The TV tuner part is worth it.