Pinnacle PCTV 110i @ Antrix Tech Zone, Mumbai

Internal Analogue TV Tuner with MediaCenter Software


PCI Board	Music Playback	Slide Shows	Live TV

:: Features ::

Watch and record television
Pinnacle PCTV 110i combines a high quality TV viewing experience with advanced personal video recording features. Advanced PVR features include: Timeshifting, remote-controlled EPG, one-touch or programmable TV and radio recording. You can burn recorded programs to CD or DVD, or burn directly to DVD.

Easy-to-use, all-around media management solution
Pinnacle PCTV 110i also includes Pinnacle MediaManager to help you find, view, and organize the potentially thousands of music files, digital photos and videos collected on your hard drive. With this software, you can create photo slideshows complete with transitions, titles and background music. Create unlimited music playlists or import playlists you’ve already created.

Turn your PC into a Media Center
PCTV 110i turns an ordinary PC into a digital entertainment system – which means that you can access all your music, photos, and videos using a remote control. It’s like having a music jukebox, DVD player, PVR, photo slideshow projector all built into your PC.

Everything you need
Pinnacle PCTV 110i is a complete, premium solution for turning your PC into a TV, PVR and entertainment center. 110i comes with software, an external TV tuner and a remote control. The product includes a software MPEG2 encoder, which offers full quality video capture. The components were designed and tested to offer a well-tuned, compatible product combination – for an enjoyable experience.

Target Market
Pinnacle PCTV 110i is aimed at people who wish to watch analog antenna or cable TV on their PC, record TV programs to their hard drive, listen to FM radio and organize their media files. It is also aimed at media savvy users who wish to use their PC as a storage server and media hub in the home. A typical Pinnacle PCTV user will have many digital photos, or have downloaded or created MP3 files, or own a lot of movies downloaded from the Internet or captured from his camcorder.

Watch and record analogue TV on your PC
Use Timeshifting to control the TV viewing experience: pause, start late, skip commercials
Listen to, record and timeshift FM radio. Also includes Internet radio support.
Unique! Burn live TV directly to disc with Direct-to-DVD.
Use remote to get channel information from integrated EPG.
Unique! Teletext is database driven providing instant access to all pages and sub-pages.
Unique! Includes Pinnacle MediaManager. Ideal for organizing your media files.
Complete remote-controlled Pinnacle MediaCenter application.
CD and DVD playback.
Integrated CD and DVD burning.
Studio QuickStart for video editing and commerical removal.

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:: Specifications ::

Supported File Formats

TV Capture: capture analogue TV to hard disc with MPEG-1/2 RT compression with 4 quality level presets for VCD, SVCD, DVD-long play and DVD

Music Playback: MP3, MPEG-1 layer 2 (MPA), PCM, WAV,WMA

Video Playback:MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG 2 *.vob files, WMV9 (For DivX or XVid decoders must be pre-installed)

Images: JPEG, BMP, PNG and GIF

CD/DVD Playback: DVD, SVCD, VCD, VR +, VR-

Burning: Audio CDs, MP3 CD and DVD (files must be in MP3 format for burning), VCD, S-VCD and DVD support

Hardware

PCTV 110i is equipped with a premium quality PAL/SECAM/NTSC tuner with full hyperband CableTV support.

Stereo Audio Support: NICAM, CCIR Dual FM Carrier, BTCS Stereo
IR remote transmitter incl. batteries
IR receiver (connects to PCTV 110i board's 2.5mm socket)
Stereo audio support: internal audio cable for connection to a soundboard (PCI audio streaming is also supported)
Adaptor to RCA composite video

PCTV 110i has the following approvals

FCC and CE
Microsoft WHQL certification for Windows XP

Inputs and Outputs

Video Inputs: S-video (Hosiden-socket), Composite video (RCA socket via adaptor)
Audio Outputs: 2.5 mm header (internal)
TV signal: IEC connector (PAL/SECAM)
FM radio signal: IEC connector

System Requirements

Operating system:

Windows XP (Home, Professional or MediaCenter 2005) with latest service pack

Minimum System Requirements:

Intel® Pentium® 4 1.80 GHz or equivalent AMD® Athlon® XP
256 MB of RAM
U-DMA IDE hard disk (min 5GB free capacity)
Graphics controller with support for DirectX8 or higher
Sound controller with support for DirectX9 or higher
One available PCI 2.3 compatible slot
CD-ROM or DVD-ROM drive
Mouse

Recommended system:

Intel® Pentium® 4 2.40 GHz or equivalent AMD® Athlon® 64
512MB RAM
UDMA hard drive with 20GB or more disk space
DirectX9 (or higher) compatible graphics controller and soundcard
One available PCI 2.3 compatible slot
DVD-Recorder
Mouse