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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

Pick one.............

Paula,

Seriously, I have no idea? Good question!

It is a good question Paula.

I don't know if he (Sparky et al) will answer you.

C

I guess it's possible he forgot that you don't have to sign in when you visit the site, but maybe he wants to reply without being seen. 

He said specifically "without logging out". 

Hey, where is Spanky anyway? 

He has not logged in since 5 PMish yesterday.

C

It was like this on the old forum also so I don't know why he would think this would be any different.

C

Paula wrote:
Guess he's with Buttwheat..............

Talk too us Spunky.
Us kids need playmates.

My nickname was Sparky in the college days, but thats because I was a real live wire and the life of the party. At least I thought so.   LOL 

                                                                    Kevin

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?

http://www.ati.com/products/radeon9800/aiw9800pro/index.html

http://www.videohelp.com/capture

Marshall wrote:

Marshall, you are quite welcome.

Sounds right to me. A splitter on your basic cable line would give you another line to connect to a TV tuner card.

Since you have a TV there already, no need for a TV tuner in your computer. I put one in years ago as I was really using it as a video capture for my analogue camcorder. The TV tuner was a secondary consideration, which I've used more than the video capture . I don't have a TV in this room which a small office.

What's a BF2 UWWW? I think I have the BF part.

Wind, thanks again!

I have no idea Rob but I think your BF part is probably right.

Whoa Nelly!

I have cable and would like to hook up the PC so that I can watch tv without getting in the kids's way. They fight over the tv in the family room (where the PC is) and I  would like my own quiet space so I can catch up on my shows. Headphones on of course. Now what card should I look at?

Damn kids are getting smarter everyday!

robmints wrote:

Robmints.

I always wondered how long it would take for someone to notice. It been there for over a year now. Emmo was the first and sent me a PM on it long ago.

UWWW - UnderWater Weed Whacker

I'm not sure what BF stands for. You know what the product is?

I like the ATI AIW products because it makes life simplier.  Unless you guys have the new technology of PCI Express then your will need an AGP card.  I have the ATI AIW X600 Pro.  ATI's AIW card will turn your computer into a multimedia PC just about.  If you don't need that then you can go with a regular TV Tuner card or a digital TV card.  Here are the TV Tuner Cards.  I don't think ATI makes one for digital cable yet, or one that is capable of recieving a large amount of channels.  Look the cards over and tell me what you would like to buy, and I might be able to get one for a bit less. 

From personal experience with ATI i would just use their stuff for target pratice. I would recommend Nvidia NVTV cards. Nvidia is the leader in video cards and i would trust their stuff over an other company.

Hey, welcome aboard MTX20HZ.  I looked @ the Nvidia cards before I got my ATI AIW and they weren't out on the market to really get a good price and look at them. Could you post up a few links for Nvidia versions of the All-In-Wonder cards?

Hello hello.

here is the Nvidia site for their NVTV cards. http://nvidia.com/page/nvtv.html

I like the 512MB SLI cards that they have  :) MMM    dual = 1024MB of video, not too much if you ask me  :) .