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Digital TV Capture Card?

  • 06-02-2006 5:39pm
    #1
    alc
    Closed Accounts Posts: 73 ✭✭


    Anyone have the knowledge to help here?

    I have an analogue TV capture card (LeadTek winfast tv2000xp) which works ok. I'm living in Paris and there is Digital Terrestrial TV available (DVB, like freeview in UK).

    I'm thinking of getting either a standard freeview style external box and plugging it into the above Leadtek card or a new DVB-capture card (Happpage HVR-1100 http://www.hauppauge.co.uk/pages/products/data_hvr1100.html). As the external freeview-tuner can also be used with a standard TV it has a slight advantage over the PCI-DVB tuner.

    But here's my question: if the DVB-PCI card is capturing a digital signal is it transferring that same digital format/signal direct to the PC? If this is the case then the quality of the display and/or recording via the DVB-capture card would be far superior than if using an external-freeview box and my existing analogue capture card.

    ie:
    digital-signal>>PC
    versus
    digital-signal>>analog-capture>>digital-signal>>PC
    So making the capture from the DVB-card less altered and/or processed.

    any reasonably well articulated opinions welcome...


Comments

  • #2
    bpmurray
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,275 ✭✭✭bpmurray


    I have a DVB-S card and that takes the cable from the sat dish. I presume a DVB-T card would take the signal from the antenna in a similar fashion. The HVR1100 looks pretty cool, and is probably cheaper than a set-top box.


  • #3
    excal2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 34 ✭excal2


    The picture quality is definetly going to be better, but you're only going to notice the difference if you're viewing it on a LCD/plasma tv or computer monitor, its not going to be a huge difference, its not like you're getting HD or anything.

    And unless your're outputting to a lcd/plasma or computer monitor using the dvi or hdmi outputs its basically an analog signal you're using anyway.

    The main thing to look out for when switching to a new card is the encoding, is it hardware or software, stick with the hardware encoder, its lighter on the cpu.

    I'd go with the external.... If your PC has a fit you can still watch tv...the old fashioned way.... :-)


    Anyhow thats my 2 cents.


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