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Watching tv on the AIW X800XL, using the s-video in...
Hi. Thanks for your time. For a new computer i will build, an htpc, i want
to include the All-In-Wonder X800XL. This is my first experience with those combo tv/graphic cards, but i've heard a lot of good things about them from people and also in some reviews on the net. Since i have digital cable service here in Montréal with my supplier (Videotron), i then have to switch channels on the Explorer terminal...not on the TV set wich is left on the channel-3. My question is: Since my Explorer 3100 terminal have both composite and s-video outputs, and the AIW card have the corresponding inputs,to gain better image quality, can i connect the s-video out toward the s-video in of the AIW card and watch TV this way? Would i be able to use all the features like scheduled recordings and dvr functionality just like if i was using the card's tuner left on channel-3? TIA for any replies. -- Alain(alias:Kilowatt) Montréal Québec PS: 1000 excuses for grammatical errors or omissions, i'm a "pure" french canadian! :-) (If replying also by e-mail, remove "no spam" from the adress.) |
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"KILOWATT" wrote in message
.. . Hi. Thanks for your time. For a new computer i will build, an htpc, i want to include the All-In-Wonder X800XL. This is my first experience with those combo tv/graphic cards, but i've heard a lot of good things about them from people and also in some reviews on the net. Since i have digital cable service here in Montréal with my supplier (Videotron), i then have to switch channels on the Explorer terminal...not on the TV set wich is left on the channel-3. My question is: Since my Explorer 3100 terminal have both composite and s-video outputs, and the AIW card have the corresponding inputs,to gain better image quality, can i connect the s-video out toward the s-video in of the AIW card and watch TV this way? Would i be able to use all the features like scheduled recordings and dvr functionality just like if i was using the card's tuner left on channel-3? TIA for any replies. -- Alain(alias:Kilowatt) Montréal Québec PS: 1000 excuses for grammatical errors or omissions, i'm a "pure" french canadian! :-) (If replying also by e-mail, remove "no spam" from the adress.) If you use the S-Video input you'll have to schedule the box to send the correct program so the AIW can record it. You may be able to put a splitter on the cable before it connects to the box and send RF to the AIWs coaxial input too. That way you could tune in channels that aren't scrambled by just scheduling them with the AIW. On my system I can tune up to channel 80 then have to use the box for higher channels. |
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Watching tv on the AIW X800XL, using the s-video in...
Thanks for your reply, Shadow.
If i understand it right, the software allows you to schedule a recording not only from a channel but also from a video input? |
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"KILOWATT" wrote in message
. .. Thanks for your reply, Shadow. If i understand it right, the software allows you to schedule a recording not only from a channel but also from a video input? Yes. |
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Thanks a lot.
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