DViCO FusionHDTV5 USB Gold

By Alexander Grundner | November 2nd, 2005 comments icon Comments (5)


dvico usb fusionhdtvContemplating buying a new external USB 2.0 TV Tuner? eHomeUpgrade reader, Zach Jennings, informs us that a relatively unknown product called FusionHDTV5 USB Gold by DViCO is worth look (just noticed… there’s a PCI version as well). Reason: it’s one of the few HDTV recording solutions that can record unencrypted high-def digital cable (clear QAM – supports up to 256QAM) television, as well as, ATSC HD broadcasts. In addition, DViCO claims that the device is compatible with MCE, SnapStream, and other popular PVR applications. However, the company does include a software bundle consisting of FusionHDTV EPG and Fusion Converter for recording and converting high-definition digital TV and other video files into high quality DivX, DVD or MPEG-4 formats.

Note: Zach suggests picking one up at Digital Connection for $149 (MSRP $199) or you can check prices here.

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5 Responses to “DViCO FusionHDTV5 USB Gold”

  1. MyAvatars 0.2 brianworkman Says:
    November 2nd, 2005 at 7:20 pm

    I think that you should test the pci card and let us know how it works. :D I would buy that new Sony system rip out the one card and put two of these bad boys in it.

  2. MyAvatars 0.2 wbonner Says:
    November 3rd, 2005 at 8:27 am

    I went to the web site to look at this.. At the specifications, it lists conflicting information.     Running on Windows XP or later only.
    1394(Firewire) port

    I would prefer it to be runnign on 1394 than usb, as that is generally less processor overhead, but the inconsistencies in that, plus operating system requirements scare me a little bit.

  3. MyAvatars 0.2 Alexander Grundner Says:
    November 3rd, 2005 at 10:24 am

    wbonner said: I went to the web site to look at this.. At the specifications, it lists conflicting information.     Running on Windows XP or later only.
    1394(Firewire) port

    I would prefer it to be runnign on 1394 than usb, as that is generally less processor overhead, but the inconsistencies in that, plus operating system requirements scare me a little bit.

    Hmmm, that is strange. One other drawback is that decoder is software based instead of hardware based.

  4. MyAvatars 0.2 wbonner Says:
    November 3rd, 2005 at 10:58 am

    http://www.digitalconnection.com/Pr…/fusion5usb.asp is the Digital Connection sale link for the USB version. I’d love to see a direct review of it somewhere.

  5. MyAvatars 0.2 kellywire Says:
    November 28th, 2005 at 10:39 am

    Alexander Grundner said: Hmmm, that is strange. One other drawback is that decoder is software based instead of hardware based.

    http://forums.snapstream.com/vb/sho…9156#post169156

    According to one guy at a snapstream thread

    QUOTE:Capturing HDTV doesn’t require any kind of encoding - the signal is just data, actually an already encoded MPEG stream if you will. Think of an HD tuner as more of a modem. It just dumps the data onto the hard drive, already as an MPEG transport stream.

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