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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

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.