I think everyone has enjoyed a laugh at someone else's expense at some time in their lives, but if you enjoy a regular vocalization of mirth, then the TV has got to be your fix. I mean, there's all those talk shows for a start- what could possibly be better than watching Chavs getting shouted at by a riled-up Jeremy Kyle?

When I was an itty-bitty Kt, I wasn't allowed to watch too much TV in case my brain rotted and my eyes went square. (I was a gullible child) At 7:30PM I watched Are You Afraid Of The Dark? without fail and scared myself witless before bedtime! Then I'd sit in bed with my ancient black and white telly trying to get reception on channels I probably shouldn't have been watching... Moving swiftly on...

Remember the long ago days of VHS? It's quite scary playing one now and seeing how grainy they are compared to a DVD, but we were ignorant to Blu-Ray and HD back then! I still have all my old videos, and now I've figured out what this tuner thing actually does, I want one to transfer my Famous Five tapes to DVD! Did I say Famous Five? I meant something else. Something cool...

I think my parents first VCR cost about £400, and with video hire membership coming in at a whopping £22.00, it was an expensive old business! For those of you who are akin to my technophobic mother, this is the answer to bringing yourself into the 21st Century with style, and without forking out the cash to replace your videos with their DVD counterparts. Now all you have to do is plug your VCR into the Aopen Xrecorder VX2000 Tuner and Hardware MPEG Encoder and you can convert your favourites to disc format, convincing all those around you that you're cool, and down with the kids.

Now, if you're anything like me, you're probably looking at this and thinking, `What the heck is this?` I'm going to do my best to tell you, but I can't promise anything...

It's basically a TV tuner capture device, which can capture from external devices in composite, S-VHS and Firewire. It supports TV broadcasts, up to 158 channels, and can encode in MPEG1 & 2 for CD and DVD video burning.

Description:
•Receive TV broadcasts: 158 channels cable/antenna

•External inputs for video capture: AV and S-video inputs for external video resource like cameras and VCRs.

•1394 inputs for external video resource like DV and DV8.

•Wireless remote control included: Channels up/down, Volume up/down.

•Full motion video capture:
- Hardware MPEG1
352x240,320x240
- Hardware MPEG2 720x480,640x480,480x480,352x480

Specifications
•TV Function
158 channels cable/antenna
Re-Sizeable video window up to full screen
Auto scan to quickly scan available TV channels.
Favourite TV channel editing or rename.

•World Wide Television Video Standards
USA, Canada, Middle America: NTSC-M
South America:
Chile: NTSC-M, Brazil: PAL-M(60MHz), Argentina: PAL-N(50MHz)
England: PAL-I,
France: SECAM-L
Germany, South-North Europe: PAL-B,G
Japan: NTSC-M
Mid East: SECAM-B,G
Turkey, South Arabia peninsula: PAL-B,G
Australia: PAL-B,G

•Capture Function (MPEG1/2 Hardware Encoder):
- Still image snapshot as JPG format.
- Fully compatible with Microsoft WDM.
- Full motion video capture up to 720x480 @ 30 fps (frame per second) interlaced.
- Mpeg video compression up to 15MB bitrate for USB2.0 or 4MB bitrate for USB1.1
- Video format compatible to DVD, SVCD and VCD

•Dimension
18cm width x 12.5cm depth x 3.5cm height

•External inputs for video capture:
- AV and S-video inputs for external video resource like cameras and VCRs.
- 1394 inputs for external video resource like DV and DV8.

•Wireless remote control included:
- Power off, Numeric Keypad, Channels up/down, Volume up/down, Mute....

•External interface:
- 75 ohm IEC coaxial input (cable TV), composite input (RCA), S-Video input( SVHS), Audio input(RCA), and DV(1394) - USB2.0 / 1.0 interface

•Valuable Friendly Software Package:
- Ulead Video@Home
- Ulead VideoStudio 7.0SE DVD CD disc
- Ulead PhotoImpact 7.0 CD disc

•Regulatory Compliance:
FCC Class B
CE
C-Tick

•System Requirement:
- IBM PC Pentium III 500 MHz or higher
- Minimum 128 MB system memory
- Minimum 200 MB of free hard disk space
- VGA and with DirectDraw supporting 16 bit colour or higher
- Microsoft Windows 2000 / XP / ME
- USB 2.0 or USB 1.1
- Microsoft Windows compatible sound card

•Package Contents
- AOpen VX2000 Box
- AOpen VX2000 Case Stand
- AOpen VX2000 Manual and Quick Guide
- AOpen VX2000 Driver and Ulead Video @ Home CD disc
- Ulead VideoStudio 7.0SE DVD CD disc
- Ulead PhotoImpact 7.0 CD disc
- 1394 Cable x1
- USB2.0 Cable x1
- 3RCA to 3RCA cable (Video and Audio)
- Power Adapter x1
- IR remote controller
- Battery AAA x2

Condition: Brand New Bankrupt Stock

Warranty: 90 Days

Kt ~ The Gothic Scribe