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Watching NTL Digital on a PC

  • 18-05-2009 05:07PM
    #1
    conor259
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3 ✭


    I wonder can anyone help me, I'm trying to record NTL digital onto a PC but I can't get to connect the cable box to the PC to view a channel not to mention record.
    Any help at all would be much appreciated


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  • #2
    GerardKeating
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,062 ✭✭✭GerardKeating


    conor259 wrote: »
    I wonder can anyone help me, I'm trying to record NTL digital onto a PC but I can't get to connect the cable box to the PC to view a channel not to mention record.
    Any help at all would be much appreciated

    How are you connecting teh NTL box to the computer ?

    You need a tv tuner card (or s-video inputt) for the PC before you can do anything...


  • #3
    conor259
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3 ✭conor259


    I'm connecting the NTL Cable box to the tuner card on the PC by scart to composite. The PC is Dell XPS 430 with a Hauppage tuner card Win TV 1200 Hybrid.


  • #4
    Yakuza
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,130 ✭✭✭Yakuza


    Is your scart -> composite cable going in the right direction (i.e. the scart bit is "out" and the composite bits are "in". I bought one in Power City but it was the wrong one (the component bits were "in" and the scart "out" (for connecting camera to a TV for example). I just grabbed it off the rail and paid it, assuming it was correct. At least it was only a fiver :)

    Some converters have two sets of leads (for in and out for left and right sound as well as video), and others have a switch (like this one that I'm using myself) which has a switch so you can use it either way.


  • #5
    conor259
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3 ✭conor259


    I have the left hand side device from the picture you referenced. I think this is the correct 'scart to composite' but not 100% sure.


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