Digital Recording of TV

PHB

So I want to start recording all the football matches on TV for next season onto a digital format, which in turn could be converted to AVI. Is there a way to do this?
Does Sky Plus does this? I'm sure it records digitally, but is it transferable?

KdjaCL

Decent Tv in card and plug a RF connector into it from Sky Box and record on pc.

The Aldi tv card has that option card was/is 39.99


kdjac

daveirl

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KdjaCL

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RF cables can go to 10m without any loss of quality.


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daveirl

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Fibonacci

KdjaC wrote:

Decent Tv in card and plug a RF connector into it from Sky Box and record on pc.

The Aldi tv card has that option card was/is 39.99


kdjac

how do you record on the pc?

daveirl

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PHB

I have Win Haupagge TV Card, and the quality is quite frankly quite.
Am I using it in correctly?
Can I get a better card?

Whats this baout a DVD-R recorder?
Does that work likke a video, can you just press recorrd and it will?

daveirl

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Gegerty

You can hook your box up to a pc running media centre, which is a DVR (ala Tivo, Sky+). This microsoft format can then be converted to avi. I've yet to try this but there's plenty of info out on the web and it seems easy enough. you'll also save yourself the extra €15 a month cause you won't need Sky+ anymore.

daveirl

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MrPinK

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The tuner just tunes in any signal that it can detect, and associates a particular frequency with a channel name. The PVR software just matches the channel names to the tv listings that it downloads. As long as you have access to tv listings for the Irish/UK channels, it shouldn't be a problem.

Gegerty

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Sorry you're right you need a media centre compatible tv card and you can't buy the remote controls in the shops because they're only shipped with media centre pc's. you can get them on ebay though:

http://search.ebay.co.uk/MCE-remote_W0QQfromZR40QQsojsZ1

Here's a link explaining how to hook it up to sky:

http://www.avforums.com/forums/archive/index.php/t-212680.html

There's more info out there just google or even try:

http://www.xpmce.com/

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beaker

I picked up a Hauppauge PVR 150 (in IT Direct on Parliament St) for 120 euros. You can get cheaper cards, but this one has a hardware encoder so it records well even if I do other things on the PC (which I do).

It came with a remote control and an IR blaster which would change channels on a decoder box. I have cable tv so I don't use it.

I use Windows XP with free software providing the Tivo-like interface (GB-PVR). I have set it up to get TV listings automatically and it works great.

Hope this helps with your research...

PixelTrawler

beaker wrote:

I picked up a Hauppauge PVR 150 (in IT Direct on Parliament St) for 120 euros. You can get cheaper cards, but this one has a hardware encoder so it records well even if I do other things on the PC (which I do).

It came with a remote control and an IR blaster which would change channels on a decoder box. I have cable tv so I don't use it.

I use Windows XP with free software providing the Tivo-like interface (GB-PVR). I have set it up to get TV listings automatically and it works great.

Hope this helps with your research...

have the same card works great. At the moment trying to configure Intervideo WinDVR3 - anyone had any luck with this.

The reason is im trying to connect my ps2 to the pc. Theres a lag of about 2 seconds on the wintv pvr 150 - fine for passively watching tv but makes using a console impossible

someone posted to another forum online about this and said the intervideo product gets rid of the lag - anyone tried this

KdjaCL

Aldi tv card with the software that comes with it, i record a sample later and host it for you to see.



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RuggieBear

I'm thinking of recording some rugby matches on Sky, from next week onto the pc....

BUT

I also want to be able to watch the match on the TV with some mates at the same time. Is this possible? And is it cheap?

Another bloody problem is that the computer and the tv (and the NTL Digital point) are about 40ft from each other....would the tv signal be ****ed coming over that much space...?

Am i completely bonkers and wanting too much?

bobsyouruncle

Yes u are asking to much if u only have one sky connection and its that far away.
Ul need a tv card.
Either mover ur pc temporarily to near ursky connection or get along cable(it wont lose quality)

RuggieBear

bobsyouruncle wrote:

Yes u are asking to much if u only have one sky connection and its that far away.
Ul need a tv card.
Either mover ur pc temporarily to near ur sky connection or get along cable(it wont lose quality)

lol...

tbh my pc sounds like a hoover

i reckon i'll get the Hauppauge WinTV PVR 350 If there is no signal degradation i'll just go for a 40 ft coax cable.

I want the match displayed on the tv too tho....i have a splitter at the ntl point with one cable going into the digital box and the other not connected to anything.....would it be possible to use this second cable to connect to the pc would and still have a decent signal strength goin to both? Am i making any sense?

MrPinK

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i have a splitter at the ntl point with one cable going into the digital box and the other not connected to anything.....would it be possible to use this second cable to connect to the pc would and still have a decent signal strength goin to both? Am i making any sense?

The problem is that the TV-Tuner needs an analogue signal. There are digital tuner cards, that they won't be of any use as NTL encrypts the signal coming in. All you can record is the signal that is being output by the decoder box, which means you can't record and watch two different things unless you get a second decoder.

If you were on analogue however, you can split the signal and record how many different channels at the same time as you like.

RuggieBear

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The problem is that the TV-Tuner needs an analogue signal. There are digital tuner cards, that they won't be of any use as NTL encrypts the signal coming in. All you can record is the signal that is being output by the decoder box, which means you can't record and watch two different things unless you get a second decoder.

If you were on analogue however, you can split the signal and record how many different channels at the same time as you like.

I have an NTL STB with just one scart output.

Could i connect the stb with a scart adapter to an s-video cable -> s-video input on the pvr250 and record and then using the s-video output on my rad 9800 pro, bring the signal back to another scart adapter and on to my tv?

Would the picture quality on the TV be bad?