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(More customer reviews)I'm updating this review after owning and using this card for about a year. The card may be fine for occasional on-the-road use, but I have to question whether it's suitable for the "always-on" use that a DVR demands. Over time problems started developing which I eventually traced back to the card, corrupted video files that looked OK but wouldn't play properly, audio noise on recordings, and finally massive frame-skipping and jitter that made recordings unwatchable. The card gets very hot and I think the demands I've put on it have caused it to fail. Yes, I realize that an internal video capture solution like an ExpressCard was likely to run into overheating problems, but my card came packaged with an HP "entertainment laptop" that I'm using as a quiet, dedicated PVR. I expected the card to be a little more rugged (I also expected the card to fit securely in the ExpressCard slot, which it never did without duct tape.). Since others may be considering laptops as DVRs in a converged TV/Internet/Audio system, I would suggest avoiding ExpressCards in favor of a USB or Firewire-based external capture solution.
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