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Tv Card for PC

  • 26-07-2005 4:20pm
    #1
    seabee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 707 ✭✭✭


    I have no experience hardware and I would like to add a Tv Card to my PC. I was just wondering is it hard to install and could somebody recommend a good model/brand?


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  • #2
    djmarkus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,606 ✭✭✭djmarkus


    Well there are 2 flavours of TV card, PCI and USB, I dunno how much u know about computer but a USB on obviously is external and plugs into your USB port, PCI cards involve your case to be opened and the TV card inserted into a free PCI slot. after that the software installation is a doddle for most TV cards.

    With Hauppage's Wintv series of cards you cant go wrong really.


  • #3
    albundymwc
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12 ✭albundymwc


    if i put a tv card in my pc and want to record the channels onto my hard drive do i need to install a record card aswell or can you get a single card that does both?
    Hey DJ markus - Two goldfish in a bowl,one says to the other do you know how to steer this bleeding thing?


  • #4
    Crunch
    Closed Accounts Posts: 137 ✭✭Crunch


    I got a NVTV tv-tuner-capture card, which works fine for me.

    You can view/record, and it is done in hardware, so the cpu usage is around 3-10%, whereas with a software capture card, your cpu uses most of it's power in the encoding, and you can't do much else at the same time. :)


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