Joined on 12/19/08
Great Case/ Good Price
Pros: Great price, plenty of space, and easy to use due to both sides folding open. Three fans keep air moving through your rig. I was able to use a non-modular power supply without too many cable management issues.
Cons: Fan can get a little loud during the first minute of operation. Very little to prevent dust from entering the case. Be careful if you have pets or just don't clean your floor often. . .
Decent. . . Not great.
Pros: Solid Card, installation was smooth, analog and digital inputs, low profile card. No serious problems so far.
Cons: Ditch the packaged Drivers and software, download a driver from the website. The DIAMOND website does not list a driver for the TVW650PCIEV, however, the TVW650PCIE driver works fine. One Post is Digital, the other is Analog, so it will not function as a Dual Tuner, allowing you to record a show and watch another as you might expect.
Overall Review: Purchased on the cheap from a Shell Shocker Deal. . . Would not have been to pleased if I had payed full price.
Update to a previous review
Pros: Worked well while it lasted. . .
Cons: Died after 3 months. Purchase at your own risk.
Overall Review: Glad I bought during a shell shocker, as this turned out to be an unreliable card. I used this for an HTPC build, and it was flawless for the first three months. One day I started receiving "No Signal" messages in WMC after about 10 minutes of use, and then the next day I couldn't even get 10 minutes. Double checked driver and signal strength, then realized it must be the tuner. I attempted to plug the tuner into another PC and received the same "no signal" screen.
Great for my gaming PC
Pros: Fast, Reliable, not too expensive. Able to run all the latest games without concern.
Cons: The stock fan works well, but only if you don't attempt to overclock. Otherwise, none.
Voice recognition needs work
Pros: The recipes are good, I like the little video tutorials for techniques I may not be good at. The shopping list function is great. Great way for a guy like me who can't cook to save money and not eat out.
Cons: Voice recognition is too touchy, when I'm moving things around in the kitchen, it will mistake a pot hitting another pot as "continue." Kind of a pain when your hands are dirty to have to manually mess with the DS.