The former crowd of PCI TV Tuners might demand to pace aside soon, as their PCIe full cousin head into the market. Sure, there are even enough of people without CPU board weaponed with PCI Express elaboration slots, but the old PCI bus is finally on it's path out.Today we're becoming to accept a appear at PowerColor's PCI Express grounded Theatre 550 Pro TV Tuner.


Other than the path the card interfaces with a organization, there's small difference amongst the more novel PCIe grounded tuners over PCI, so we'll be focus on the PowerColor card's functioning, ease of installation, install, and bundled software.Talking of software, approximately of you might recall our proportional displeasure with CyberLink's PowerCinema three software in our survey of MSI's ATI Theater 550 Pro, so our go through with PowerColor's choice of PowerCinema four, will weigh intemperately on this evaluation.


First thing's 1st although; let's appear at the specs earlier prompting on to the more exhorting consequences.The PowerColor Theater 550 Pro appears similar most other TV Tuners that utilize ATI's Theater 550 Pro chip, with the exclusion of the PCIe edge connector. With support invariably developing for the PCI Express interface, it was just a subject of time earlier PCIe TV Tuners hit the market.


Name: 8.jpg Views: 92 Size: 20.9 KB


Boasting ATI's trademark red PCB, the card isn't prominent plenty to be a concern for most of you, still, if you're campaigning 2 video cards in SLI, you could campaign into approximately troubles reckoning on the cooling result on the graphics cards themselves and your CPU board slot form. TV, FM, Composite, S-Video, and Audio ports are all detected at the back of the card and we didn't have any troubles becoming everything associated.


The bundle is somewhat received, comprising all the necessary CD's and accessories to become everything up and campaigning. You'll detect a CD with the necessitated drivers and installation files, but CyberLink has also admitted another CD packed total of beneficial software.