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TV Tuner Card
Looking to get a TV Tuner card for my computer and have a couple questions.
How well would a tuner card work with satellite TV? Since the signal has passed through the sat box it is pretty much already "tuned" so I'm a bit confused on this. Also , would the recording feature work with satellite? Basically all I'm looking for is having a "CNN Window" while I'm on the computer and maybe recording a few snatches of TV once in a while. Dell Dim 4400 Win XP Home ATI Radeon Pro 9000 |
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"SBreez" wrote in message ... Looking to get a TV Tuner card for my computer and have a couple questions. How well would a tuner card work with satellite TV? Since the signal has passed through the sat box it is pretty much already "tuned" so I'm a bit confused on this. Also , would the recording feature work with satellite? Basically all I'm looking for is having a "CNN Window" while I'm on the computer and maybe recording a few snatches of TV once in a while. Dell Dim 4400 Win XP Home ATI Radeon Pro 9000 There are two parts to a TV card. It has a TV tuner and it is a capture card as well. You could jus get a capture card like a Navis-Pro, but they are a quite expensive. Then there are professional capture cards that cost thousands. Or you could use the cheap capture from the video-in on a TV card. Hauppauge cards have a s-video input. You could also get a Digital TV card like the Hauppage Nexus-s or Nova-s (european names) and get the additional Common Interface (for the sat-card) and completely do away with your sat box altogether. ss. |
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"Synapse Syndrome" wrote in message ... There are two parts to a TV card. It has a TV tuner and it is a capture card as well. You could jus get a capture card like a Navis-Pro, but they are a quite expensive. Then there are professional capture cards that cost thousands. Or you could use the cheap capture from the video-in on a TV card. Hauppauge cards have a s-video input. You could also get a Digital TV card like the Hauppage Nexus-s or Nova-s (european names) and get the additional Common Interface (for the sat-card) and completely do away with your sat box altogether. You could also consider one of the Hauppauge PVR cards that have hardware MPEG encoding, like a Navis-Pro. ss. |
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Someone else can kick in here if I'm wrong, but I don't think a regular TV
tuner card would work for satellite. The transmission is different than regular cable. Hence, the CATV tuner in the card wouldn't know what to do with the data coming from the satellite feed. You could probably route the signal to your computer via the S-video or RCA jacks after it passes thru the satellite tuner, but that would assume that you then have some sort of video input to the computer (like the input you can do with an all-in-wonder card or other tuner cards). However, in this setup, you wouldn't be using the tuner part of the card, just the video capture portion. Hope this makes sense....and good luck. Mike "SBreez" wrote in message ... Looking to get a TV Tuner card for my computer and have a couple questions. How well would a tuner card work with satellite TV? Since the signal has passed through the sat box it is pretty much already "tuned" so I'm a bit confused on this. Also , would the recording feature work with satellite? Basically all I'm looking for is having a "CNN Window" while I'm on the computer and maybe recording a few snatches of TV once in a while. Dell Dim 4400 Win XP Home ATI Radeon Pro 9000 |
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On Sun, 07 Sep 2003 17:49:36 GMT, "Mike Mastro"
wrote: Someone else can kick in here if I'm wrong, but I don't think a regular TV tuner card would work for satellite. The transmission is different than regular cable. Hence, the CATV tuner in the card wouldn't know what to do with the data coming from the satellite feed. You could probably route the signal to your computer via the S-video or RCA jacks after it passes thru the satellite tuner, but that would assume that you then have some sort of video input to the computer (like the input you can do with an all-in-wonder card or other tuner cards). However, in this setup, you wouldn't be using the tuner part of the card, just the video capture portion. Hope this makes sense....and good luck. Mike You are correct. The card can't tune it, only receive whatever signal the satellite box is set to tune. Dave |
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"John" wrote in message ... On Sun, 7 Sep 2003 08:41:39 -0400, "SBreez" wrote: Looking to get a TV Tuner card for my computer and have a couple questions. How well would a tuner card work with satellite TV? Since the signal has passed through the sat box it is pretty much already "tuned" so I'm a bit confused on this. Also , would the recording feature work with satellite? Ive never used SAT TV but I dont see why it shouldnt. As long as the feed to the TV is a regular feed which it should be or a regular TV wouldnt be able to get channels. The only problems is like with my digital box. Digital cable stations usually give you an analog feed of say 80 channels or so . Those are the ones I can get with my TV tuner and change channels with my PC channel changer. But my DIgital box gets hundreds of channels and even music and the radio. To get those channels - I have to rely on my digital box TV remote to change the channels for my TV and that feed comes outs of the S-video out of my digital and into the S-video in on my tuner card. You have this - CABLE feed ------------------carries both analog and digital Analog ----------------- can go into TV or Tuner card can change channels without a digital box on TV and you can plug the coax into TV card and change channels with your PC. Kind of like all 80s analog channels are there. DIGITAL ---------------- Digital box have to change channels with digital box remote control. Whatever is fed to the TV the channel on your digital box is what is fed to your Tuner card on the one S-video in channel. So you have like 80 or whatever analog + one S-video in - channel and you can change your PC tuner to any of the 80 analog channels and one channel for the S-video. You can change TO the svideo channel on your PC but not whats on it - that feed is determined by what channel your box is set to. You tuner card has this : ---------- coax in to get the usual analog 70-80 channels ---------- RCA sound in Need both for Digital channels ---------- Svideo In Doesnt SAT work by getting the local channels with an antenna or basic cable analog feed? Then thats what you could change in your PC and all the SAT channels I guess would be like the digital box - you would keep it on Svideo all the time and change channels with your SAT box remote. I know LAME but thats the way it is. If you keep it on CNN anyway - you wont be changing channels all the time. Ive seen some expensive digital TV cards but not sure how that works. The s-video in is better quality anyway. Not all cards have S-video in though most do. Some have that other type - I forget the name of it at the moment. Early onset alzheimers. Not all have stereo sound too. Not all work with Radeons - like possibly the Avermedia card though that might have changed. Thanks all. From what I've read it is pretty much impossible to control the sat box but that is OK. Found a great site on Google I thought I would pass on .. www.tv-cards.com .. More than I wanted to know :) |
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On Sun, 7 Sep 2003 08:41:39 -0400, "SBreez"
wrote:: Looking to get a TV Tuner card for my computer and have a couple questions. How well would a tuner card work with satellite TV? Since the signal has passed through the sat box it is pretty much already "tuned" so I'm a bit confused on this. Also , would the recording feature work with satellite? Basically all I'm looking for is having a "CNN Window" while I'm on the computer and maybe recording a few snatches of TV once in a while. Dell Dim 4400 Win XP Home ATI Radeon Pro 9000 The sat signal is "tuned". With a Tuner card, it the satellite box would just send a channel 3 or 4 signal to the tuner card just as if you had set it up with a real TV or a VCR. As for recording it? I can't be 100% sure, but I would imagine so. If you can rig the TV card to display channel 3, you can display and record anything your satellite box sends to it. Of course, you won't be able to control the satellite channel through your computer -- you'd still have to use the remote for that. If you're asking if you can rig up your PC as the satellite blackbox, I don't know. I suppose it's possible, but I don't know how you'd go about it. ---------------------------------------- Thanks, MCheu |
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"kony" wrote in message ... On Sun, 07 Sep 2003 17:49:36 GMT, "Mike Mastro" wrote: Someone else can kick in here if I'm wrong, but I don't think a regular TV tuner card would work for satellite. The transmission is different than regular cable. Hence, the CATV tuner in the card wouldn't know what to do with the data coming from the satellite feed. You could probably route the signal to your computer via the S-video or RCA jacks after it passes thru the satellite tuner, but that would assume that you then have some sort of video input to the computer (like the input you can do with an all-in-wonder card or other tuner cards). However, in this setup, you wouldn't be using the tuner part of the card, just the video capture portion. Hope this makes sense....and good luck. Mike You are correct. The card can't tune it, only receive whatever signal the satellite box is set to tune. Not true if you have a Hauppauge Nexus-s/Nova-s with Common Interface. ss. |
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