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Windows => Television => Topic started by: hit_ny on April 14, 2005, 09:36:28 am
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Would ppl like to share their experiences with different tuner cards and how well they work with MC (10 or 11).
The idea is to watch TV on the TV as opposed to the PC, but with ability to record if required as well as time-shift a la Tivo.
TV signal -> PC -> TV
Any remotes used ?
Was hoping to use it on a 700Mhz P3 with 256MB RAM. Or do i need to upgrade.
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Generally TV Tuner is much better in MC11 than it was in MC10. I had constant trouble with my standard BrookTree circuit based card (analog). Now it works almost flawlessly. I have not used it for time sifting, so I really can't say how well that part works in MC if at all.
I guess you could get by with your current PC if don't set your recording resolution too high. However, it is going need a lot of HD space, because I don't think you will be able to use any advanced compression codecs on the fly.
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http://www.ati.com/products/multimedia.html
The 700p3 is a little small.
The remote wonder comes with some of these cards and will work with MC.
The remote wonder is also RF not IR.
Means you can go anywhere with the remote (outside,ect.) and the remote will work. Just as long as you are in transmit range.
You can also change remote ids. which means you can have more than one remote in the house without any conflict.
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I'm leaning towards the Hauppauge series of cards 250-350 since they have a hardware decoder/encoder on the card itself as opposed to the CPU. Are there any cards out there that offer hardware coding as well ?
Edit:
Just saw these :
Hardware MPEG2 TV tuner round-up : PVR for all (http://techreport.com/reviews/2005q2/tuner-comparo/index.x?pg=1)
MCE TV Tuner Roundup: Featuring ATI's Theater 550 & NVIDIA's NVTV (http://www.anandtech.com/video/showdoc.aspx?i=2393)