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PC TV for a novice

Hatter · 2005-01-09 22:59:05

I've read some posts here about Free to air Tv using a PC. Well, as we all know too well, a TV licence here in Ireland is €152 a year and rising. Not to mention the cost of a basic NTL connection and then if you want cable etc. It keeps rising. I have a AMD PC with an AS ROCK motherboard, 256MB DDR memory, 80GB hard Drive,…

09-01-2005 10:59pm

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I've read some posts here about Free to air Tv using a PC. Well, as we all know too well, a TV licence here in Ireland is €152 a year and rising. Not to mention the cost of a basic NTL connection and then if you want cable etc. It keeps rising.

I have a AMD PC with an AS ROCK motherboard, 256MB DDR memory, 80GB hard Drive, CD RW, an external 8X DVD+/-RW and a Typhoon PVR TV BOX.
I have been capturing my old VHS tapes and Burning them onto DVD. Thats well and good. I can view Air TV with a basic antenna but only get the 4 Irish channels. I am in Dublin. If I plug my pipe lead into it I get the NTL basic channels. I thought about all of this and came to the conclusion that I am being ripped off. I want to close my NTL account and throw out my TV.

I want Free to air TV, or freeware digital TV or whatever. I have heard a nasty rumour that the ROI doesn't allow free to air TV? Can anyone confirm?

And with the things I have on my PC now, what do I need to get free to air channels, not just Irish, but European or American? I have no satellite dish and would prefer not to have a dish outside on the roof, and I have no decoder or any cable box or alike. If I need a satellite....so be it, but if there is a good freeware compatible Antenna or whatever, better. DO I need a DVB card? As my thread title says, I am a Novice to this and anyone that I have emailed, including people at Typhoon, nobody can tell me exactly what I need to do in reasonably understandable terms, and in fact, nobody could answer my satellite dish queries either. So if there is anyone out there who reckons they can talk me through it by posting here, please, please, do so?
What can I get in Dublin with a freeware compatible Antenna connected to a PVR? And if the answer is merely the 4 Irish Channels, then tell me what I need to do to get some european channels and some music channels etc?Thanks.....

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