Tv on your pc?

Feargal

Hi,
Im just wondering if anyone has a tv card for there pc? And if its any good or rubbish?

irishshogun

Yeah I've got one its an Happahue Wintv nova-t, and I'm very happy with it, Komplett sell it, have Tv and radio and its digital input ready, hooked up my xbox PS2 and gamecube to it aswell, so I could get rid of the big telly great if you need to record a show or Match, to watch again.

Feargal

irishshogun wrote:

Yeah I've got one its an Happahue Wintv nova-t, and I'm very happy with it, Komplett sell it, have Tv and radio and its digital input ready, hooked up my xbox PS2 and gamecube to it aswell, so I could get rid of the big telly great if you need to record a show or Match, to watch again.

Sounds good! How much was it? does it run at fullscreen? and does it pick up all the irish channels? the gamecube and xbox connection, sounds really cool!

irishshogun

Cant remember exactly how much i paid not more than 90E tho, runs at full screen no probs and more importantly there is no lag, cant have any lag when playing games off your Xbox as for hooking up your games machines you'll need an additional cable, its available from Maplins its got 3 connectors ( one for each games machine running to a single out then you just use the inbuilt switcher box to select what machine you want, tune it in ( only once as you can save it to memory) and off you go, playing burnout on a 19" LCD is sweet . It'll show ant tv channels that you've got its got an assload of tuner possibilities... hope this helps. go to komplett and search for the cards name

g5hn710m4xpdwy

Im thinking of boosting up an old pc and getting one, or jkust getting a new pc:rolleyes: anywho this is the link ot the nova-t its €73
http://www.komplett.ie/k/ki.asp?sku=315280

Feargal

Flunked wrote:

Im thinking of boosting up an old pc and getting one, or jkust getting a new pc:rolleyes: anywho this is the link ot the nova-t its €73
http://www.komplett.ie/k/ki.asp?sku=315280

Thanks for the link! looks good except it says nothing about Analogue tv....

found this link to a usb version! http://www.shopireland.ie/electronics/detail/B0007QJ7BK/Hauppauge-WinTV-Nova-T-USB-2.0/

some bad reviews though!

SouperComputer

Flunked wrote:

Im thinking of boosting up an old pc and getting one, or jkust getting a new pc:rolleyes: anywho this is the link ot the nova-t its €73
http://www.komplett.ie/k/ki.asp?sku=315280

very good chance you wont have to boost your PC TBH. TV capability has been around computers for 13years, albeit not as snazzy as todays offerings...............

http://www.lowendmac.com/500/mactv.shtml

The Hauppage PVR 150 is a good starting point for analogue cable. The PVR 500 is a dual tuner version of this, IE you can watch one show record another, or record two shows etc etc.

irishshogun

Dont buy a usb model if you intend connecting a games machine as you'll get a lag.

Feargal

Thanks for the replies! I just want to make one thing clear, if i connect an aerial to the WinTV-NOVA-T or WinTV-PVR-150MCE will it pick up rte network2 etc?
As they just seen to talk about freeview and digital tv!

irishshogun

yes

Feargal

Grande cheers!

Tom Dunne

Feargal wrote:

Thanks for the replies! I just want to make one thing clear, if i connect an aerial to the WinTV-NOVA-T or WinTV-PVR-150MCE will it pick up rte network2 etc?

Erm, I don't think the WinTV-NOVA will pick up analogue transmissions, according to the specs, its a digital tuner. So it ain't much good for network 2.

The PVR-150MCE, however, will pick up analogue transmissoins, such as RTE.

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