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Brooktree 848/878/879 TV Capture Cards

  • 16-05-2003 2:25pm
    #1
    L1011
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    Does anyone have any information on these cards? Suppliers, picture quality, connecters, that type of stuff? I need to use these cards, and pretty much no other ones, under BeOS, mainly just for watching/recording TV, but occasionally for other video capture stuff. However, I haven't seen any reviews of them, as they are pretty old cards


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  • #2
    Inspector Gadget
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    Erm, one example I can think of is the Pinnacle PCTV Rave - it's based on the BT878 (mine has a Philips tuner module).

    Connectors:

    1 x RF-in (for as many of the damn things as I've seen and fitted, I'm not sure what they're actually called - that's embarrassing!)
    1 x S-Video in
    1 x Stereo Line out (3.5mm "headphone" style) for pass-through to sound card.

    Picked it up for about £50 maybe three years ago - the same model was still on sale a month or two ago, so prob. Still is. Picture quite okay with strong signal, not impressed with tuner. (However, am living about 150m from a mobile mast so that might be relevant)

    A number of the PCI-based Hauppage WinTV products also use these chips - maybe you should do a google?
    Gadget


  • #3
    L1011
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    Thanks, I'll google, and then physically go into the shops and ask the techies... Do my usual, ask them to shove it in a system and let me put a live CD in


  • #4
    Inspector Gadget
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    Try to get a video source of some kind other than a pair of rabbit ears or similar - remember anywhere with a lot of CRT monitors will jeopardise TV reception, and if you're in a steel-framed "superstore"-type place, well, you're sunk without some other form of RF source... maybe a games console with an RF modulator?

    Gadget


  • #5
    L1011
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 71,142 ✭✭✭✭L1011


    I have a TFT and use analogue cable with a very steady signal (very recent cables for a Chorus line). Shouldn't be too much of a problem


  • #6
    Inspector Gadget
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    Originally posted by MYOB
    I have a TFT and use analogue cable with a very steady signal (very recent cables for a Chorus line). Shouldn't be too much of a problem

    Actually, I meant if you were trying it in the shop, but good for you nonetheless... just keep the TFT's inverter away from the tuner.

    Gadget


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  • #7
    Stephen
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    Hauppuage WinTV cards use a BT878 as well.


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