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12-14-2003, 04:36 PM
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Sage on Laptop?
Unfortunately, I don't really have space for a pc anywhere near my tv. And, I also happen to have a need for a laptop to serve as a "just in case" backup for my primary laptop. So, I'm considering trying to use the backup laptop to run Sage.
My questions are: 1. I only have a mic and headphone jack on my laptop, so how do I drive my amp or speakers? Does the WinTV-PVR-usb2 provide audio out? If not, is there a PCMCIA sound card that most people use? 2. If I only have USB1.1, I see that the capture rate is limited to 6Mb/sec. Is that sufficient to provide good picture quality? Thanks in advance, Dan 
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12-15-2003, 09:55 AM
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I use the WinTV-PVR-usb2 on my laptop and it works great. The usb2 handles the video/audio coming in and then your laptop needs to handle the playback of the video/sound coming out.
I currently just have the sound hooked up through the onboard headphone jack of the laptop. This works fine and if you need to connect it to a receiver/amp just get headphone to RCA converter cables to get the RCA connections. I also only have USB 1.1 on my laptop and the quality is acceptable for most programs. The only time you may have a quality issue is for sports with high motion because of the bitrate limitation on USB 1.1
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