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Compras Nikon Bluetooth

The Ultimate PVR for the PC The Plextor ConvertX PVR model PX-TV402U is the ultimate personal video recorder for the PC. The PX-TV402U allows you to connect to a satellite TV, cable TV or broadcast TV signal and record programs to your PC. You can then watch the video from the PC or burn it to DVD for playback on a DVD player. You can also connect a camcorder, VCR or DVD player to record home videos to the PC. The heart of the PX-TV402U is its multi-format encoder chip which converts video to the DivX®, MPEG-4, MPEG-2 and MPEG-1 formats as it is being recorded to the PC. The PX-TV402U is the world’s first DivX Certified PVR. Recording video in the DivX format gives users the ability to record 3 times as much video as normal without sacrificing quality. It also gives you the ability to record video into resolutions perfectly suited for playback on portable and handheld devices. The PX-TV402U contains an integrated high quality TV tuner to assure the highest quality video. The Easy and Powerful Software Has Everything You Need The PX-TV402U has the worlds most powerful and easiest to use suite of software. Intervideo WinDVR™ software is included to watch live TV, pause live TV and record programs. WinDVR’s integrated electronic programming guide(EPG) allows you to schedule recording of programs so they will record even if you are not there. The PX-TV402U also comes with Intervideo WinDVD Creator™ software for capturing, editing and sharing home

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1 Great hardware unit; mediocre software included
Still embarking on spooling off all the Hi-8 tapes I have, but I've been VERY satisfied with the Plextor unit so far. First thing I did was to spool one Hi-8 tape and then make a DVD, using the functionality of the bundled WinDVD Creator software. Good news: it worked, and a few hours after I started, I was watching the DVD I created, on my bedroom DVD player. Bad news: the software is full of minor and sometimes more than minor annoyances. It may be that I'm still climbing the learning curve with it, but I think it's just not very good. I'm looking into other solutions, such as Pinnacle, Adobe Premiere Elements, etc. Meanwhile, I keep spooling.

I haven't yet tried the TV capture in any depth. It looked like it worked, but again, with some annoyances on the software side. Plextor could improve this offering vastly with the addition of some better bundled software.

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We must believe that it is the darkest before the dawn of a beautiful

new world.  We will see it when we believe it.

		-- Saul Alinsky





The Man Who Almost Invented The Vacuum Cleaner

	The man officially credited with inventing the vacuum cleaner is

Hubert Cecil Booth.  However, he got the idea from a man who almost

invented it.  

	In 1901 Booth visited a London music-hall.  On the bill was an

American inventor with his wonder machine for removing dust from carpets.

	The machine comprised a box about one foot square with a bag on top.

After watching the act -- which made everyone in the front six rows sneeze

-- Booth went round to the inventor's dressing room.

	"It should suck not blow," said Booth, coming straight to the

point.  "Suck?", exclaimed the enraged inventor.  "Your machine just moves

the dust around the room," Booth informed him.  "Suck?  Suck?  Sucking is

not possible," was the inventor's reply and he stormed out.  Booth proved

that it was by the simple expedient of kneeling down, pursing his lips and

sucking the back of an armchair.  "I almost choked," he said afterwards.

		-- Stephen Pile, "The Book of Heroic Failures"