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Sparky

Why WOULD you want to be able to able to be on the forum and not have your name show up?

If you want to lurk, you can certainly do that without signing in.  However, if you are signed in why wouldn't you want anyone to know? 

Just curious...

Paula

Yea right, Kevin.
I suspect you got that name for your willingness too "spark one up".
I would guess that you had more than a few seed holes in your t-shirts. ;)

Now we're getting down to the stems and seeds!

buttlint wrote:

Maybe people just mistook him  for Clark Griswald.

robmints wrote:

 Better than being Cousin Eddie. 

She's a beaute Clark

Can't post anything about Christmas vaction without posting a pic from this scene ..........gettin a little hooter, I mean hotter in here.

Tell me Marshall, do you watch TV on your computer like I do?  That shot resolution looks familiar. 

AJace wrote:
AJace, I woudn't know how, computer dummy here. I got those shot's off Google.

ATI's AIW makes it possible.  Let me know if you're interested and I might have able to get a great price for you.

I'm not even to Novice yet. How does the TV signal get into your computer? Do you watch it live, so to speak, just like using an antenna, cable or sat? Or, do have to record the program to your hard drive first? Is it simple as a "TV" graphics card plugging into your computer and it now becomes a TV with your monitor as the screen. Can you select channels just like on a TV? If you have a cable modem, like I do, do you get all the channels you get on the cable service you have? For example, I get 900 cable channels in my home on my TV's, the same cable company is who I use for my cable modem, obviously. Does that same TV service come through your computer now?

As you can see, I know nothing.

Marshall,

I have a TV tuner card in one of my older computers and also have the same cable company as my IP. In my case they run two separate cables, one for the TV tuner and the other for the high speed internet, from a splitter with EMI filtering. Not sure why that was done other than there is a second splitter which gives me 4 cable TV lines off the one side of the EMI splitter. Suspect that if you split the signal for high speed you may have problems with reliability and data transfer speed.

The TV tuner card comes with software that lets you set up your channels. I can get whatever channels on the cable line fall within the tuner frequency capability. Also have a digital cable box, and that will pull other channels beyond the tuner's capability, but only for the TV it is feeding. 

Basically the TV tuner will turn your monitor into a TV. Mine is an older one which isn't cabable of more than the first 140+ channels. And you may be able to record on your HD still shots or video. Mine doesn't record with a high resolution (it would fill the HD on the old machine in no time if it did).

I would think that if you are getting 900 channels over your cable without a cable company supplied tuner box, then a TV tuner card with that channel capability would do the same. The TV tuners just plug in a slot and come with a cable connector as one of its inputs. It displays on your monitor as if it were a TV set.

Other people here with newer TV tuner cards can probably give you better information.

Highwind, thanks buddy!

What I have is, a line that comes in and goes to the various cable outlets. From there, where I have TV's, you just plug into the cable jack. For basic cable, you need no "TV box". However for digital cable, you have to have one. I have HDTV so my cable box is one that accepts that signal as well and provides me all of the channels. Now for the computer cable, all they have done is taken a basic cable outlet (jack) and run a line off of it with some type of inline splitter looking device, it then runs to my cable modem. So, it sounds like what I would need is another cable line that runs from that same jack, split off to my compuers TV card, if I were to get one. Do I have that right?

Now, the thing is, I have a TV where my computer is so I don't see the need to have this? Am I missing an application/excuse to get one?