BBD
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I've just bought a Medion SAA7130 card from Aldi (£30) to replace my Bt848 card. The card is fed from a Grundig sky box (direct S-video feed) and I have setup D-Scaler 4.1.6 as per the excellent guide in the sticky. I also have a Nebula card in the same PC.
I spent a few hours last night doing a back to back comparison between the 2 cards on a variety of programme sources. The difference between the 2 is not chalk and cheese but the SAA7130 card is definitely better. The picture quality is better with a cleaner picture, the colours are richer and the picture has more punch than the Nebula card. The biggest difference for me is the very smooth pans. I know this more of a problem for me than most but going back to the Nebula after watching the SAA7130 card makes the jerky pans of the Nebula card all the more obvious. I'll keep the Nebula card for recordings but I'll always be using the SAA7130 for live viewing.
PS The VCR software supplied with the card crashes when I try to run it any ideas?
I spent a few hours last night doing a back to back comparison between the 2 cards on a variety of programme sources. The difference between the 2 is not chalk and cheese but the SAA7130 card is definitely better. The picture quality is better with a cleaner picture, the colours are richer and the picture has more punch than the Nebula card. The biggest difference for me is the very smooth pans. I know this more of a problem for me than most but going back to the Nebula after watching the SAA7130 card makes the jerky pans of the Nebula card all the more obvious. I'll keep the Nebula card for recordings but I'll always be using the SAA7130 for live viewing.
PS The VCR software supplied with the card crashes when I try to run it any ideas?