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Just bought a new PC, and I'm looking for a cheap and good TV tuner card. I have Vista Premium x64. Any help is greatly appreciated, thanks!
Yeah but it frees up the airwaves for way better stuff here like 3G wireless. I hope that AM and FM radio are the next to switch, so long as it's free to receive like now.Originally posted by: x2 3600 rules sazakky
i know. the stopping broadcast of analog NTSC is quite a dead block acause as the beginning in the 1960's of NTSC modulation, it was the stuff. NTSC moduclation currently beats PAL in termss of bandwidth.
Originally posted by: SickBeast
Yeah but it frees up the airwaves for way better stuff here like 3G wireless. I hope that AM and FM radio are the next to switch, so long as it's free to receive like now.Originally posted by: x2 3600 rules sazakky
i know. the stopping broadcast of analog NTSC is quite a dead block acause as the beginning in the 1960's of NTSC modulation, it was the stuff. NTSC moduclation currently beats PAL in termss of bandwidth.
The bigger issue is if it's OTA or Cable/Sat. If he's on a cable system then he may have a few years left where an analog tuner would work for SD broadcasts, before they switch over to pure Switched Digital Video. But otherwise the channel options are really limited, only OTA programming is sent in the clear on OTA and cable, and sat users are entirely out of luck. If he's looking for something he can use with everything a digital cable system offers, he's entirely out of luck unless he wants to buy a $1000 Dell XPS system with an OCUR.Originally posted by: SickBeast
Do you want HD or no?
In North America they're going to stop broadcasting in low-def analog in 2009.
I'm pretty sure HDTV tuners are limited in selection and rather expensive. The industry hasn't quite caught up with it yet.
Originally posted by: dakels
I have a hauppauge 1600. It's still sitting in a sealed box because I have no idea what to do with it... lol I learned after I bought it of the 125 channel limitation and the channels that interest me the most are after 150+ (movie and sports channels). I don't understand why I can't just channels on my cable box and view what the TV views on my computer...
Originally posted by: Modular
Originally posted by: dakels
I have a hauppauge 1600. It's still sitting in a sealed box because I have no idea what to do with it... lol I learned after I bought it of the 125 channel limitation and the channels that interest me the most are after 150+ (movie and sports channels). I don't understand why I can't just channels on my cable box and view what the TV views on my computer...
Erm, you can...just use the S-video and audio inputs on the 1600 along with the included IR Blaster and you can control the cable box through the Hauppauge remote.
It's a bit more complex than that. The range of frequencies cable systems support comes out to 125 unique analog channels, but when cable companies went digital the numbering system got thrown out the door since they can put many many digital channels inside of a single analog channel. So the question should be "I can see digital cable channels?" to which the answer would be yes, as long as the IR blaster works with your cable box.Originally posted by: dakels
Originally posted by: Modular
Originally posted by: dakels
I have a hauppauge 1600. It's still sitting in a sealed box because I have no idea what to do with it... lol I learned after I bought it of the 125 channel limitation and the channels that interest me the most are after 150+ (movie and sports channels). I don't understand why I can't just channels on my cable box and view what the TV views on my computer...
Erm, you can...just use the S-video and audio inputs on the 1600 along with the included IR Blaster and you can control the cable box through the Hauppauge remote.
I can see above channel 125? (sorry I am a total dunce about this stuff)