Rating your system this way ...First the good specs
1)Pinnacle PCTV Pro . A wonderful card
2) Sony DVD RW DRU 530A (8x 4x 16x) Good
3) Microsoft Wireless Optical Mouse 2.0 (Tilt Wheel) ( Nedless to say )
4)Samsung 160 GB SATA
Pinncale PCTV a wonderful card ? install it and please verify it yourself , they advertise that it can encode Mpeg1/2 in real time , but after capturing if you previw the movie it appears cartoonish , makes a 30 mins movie to a 10 min one , all in fast forward mode , haha , and guess what , i was not the only one , if you login to the company site forum , there are hundreds of them , maybe more , and the tech support people never returns a call