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Technical Help & Discussion => Software, Hardware & Website Recommendations => Topic started by: princeofdarkness on April 15, 2004, 21:07

Title: tv tuner cards
Post by: princeofdarkness on April 15, 2004, 21:07

i am thinking of getting a tv tuner card but i dont know what there like at setting up do you have to have an aerial? and if so does it come with the card also does it take long to tune them? have you lot got one?  ???


Jonah

Title: Re:tv tuner cards
Post by: Sandra on April 15, 2004, 21:24

I fitted one from Aldi to someones PC a few weeks back Jonah.
It was very easy and I just installed the drivers and software from the cd that came with it, connected it to my aerial and told it to scan.
It took about 2 or 3 mins and found the channels available in, my area  :)

Title: Re:tv tuner cards
Post by: princeofdarkness on April 15, 2004, 21:30

any advantage over a tv? coz i have a 21 inch tv with sky in my room and a video player,dvd player,ps2,cd player and pc wiv net arent i a lucky boy  :D

dnt suppose it would offer much over what i have got  :-\

Jonah

Title: Re:tv tuner cards
Post by: Sandra on April 15, 2004, 21:51

Not much although they often have multi channel preview so you can watch up to 16 channels at once, on the one I fitted and most have a similar feature.
Also you can use them to pause live tv so you dont have to wait for the program to end before you watch it if you had to go off for 10 mins or so and you can record to your hard drive and burn to cd or dvd if you wanted  :)

Title: Re:tv tuner cards
Post by: princeofdarkness on April 15, 2004, 21:53

:-* i might reconsider it then  :o


Jonah