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TV Tuner card advice
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mb1
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9. October 2006 @ 04:01 |
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I was looking into purchasing a TV Tuner card so that I could record TV onto DVD's and convert some old camcorder tapes to DVD.
I've seen cards ranging from $20 to $300 and am lost as to the differences between them. I'm hoping to do this for under $100.
I'm also concerned that my middle-of-the road Dell (2 year-old Dimension 4600 Pentium® 4 Processor at 2.66GHz with 533MHz front side bus, Integrated Intel® Extreme Graphics 2 video card) may not be able to handle this.
Does anyone have any advice as to what TV Tuner card would be good for this purpose for that price range?
Thanks,
Matt
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13. October 2006 @ 10:11 |
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although i dont have one my self. Pinaccle makes very good tv to Computer devices. I dont know much about them but i know thier is RCA input jacks and it should be as simple as opening the conversion software and plugging hte device in. go to circuit city they ussually know more about it or bump for someone at the top that may know more.
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13. October 2006 @ 20:54 |
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mb1
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16. October 2006 @ 03:28 |
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Thanks for all of the advice. Basically what I am looking for is a way to record cable TV and possibly convert some old camcorder or vcr tapes to DVD. I've done some more research and read that a dvd recorder might be the way to go for this purpose.
Do you think that might be a suitable solution for my needs? Also my video card is the Dell integrated card that came with my dimension 4600 so I am concerned that I may also need to upgrade that at an added expense.
Thanks again,
Matt
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16. October 2006 @ 10:53 |
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mb1
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16. October 2006 @ 11:18 |
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Thanks for the links.
I am running XP on a Dell Pentium® 4 Processor at 2.66GHz with 533MHz front side bus 512MB Dual Channel DDR SDRAM at 333MHz
I was hoping to do it for under $100, but don't even know if that is a realistic budget. If I could get acceptable quality for $30 that would be fantastic. If it matters my current TV isn't an HDTV.
I have a DVD RW drive. Am I correct in assuming that if I buy one of these cards that is all I will need to receive and burn cable TV from the coaxial input and copy movies from a camcorder or vcr through the component inputs?
Will the quality be the comparable to a dvd recorder?
Thanks again for the advice,
Matt
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16. October 2006 @ 11:46 |
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mb1
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16. October 2006 @ 12:54 |
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Thanks,
I would need to download Myth TV to record shows, right?
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16. October 2006 @ 13:11 |
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Might be worth trying if the suppled program is buggy.
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16. October 2006 @ 23:49 |
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I just bought a TV wonder ELITE by ATI. its priced at 89.99 USD from ATI so u should be able to find it cheaper. For your purposes this should do very well (but u might look to download some freeware or purchase 3rd party software because the ATI software isnt that great)... You can watch cable TV, and it has a coax input, S-video, and composite cables so you should easily be able to copy your videos onto the computer and burn them to DVD.... You can record TV shows and there are various other features also.
If you want at least decent quality video I would stay away from low end tuners because they tend to lock up alot and give u choppy quality at best. Since you dont have HD I would highly recommend this card, but happauge makes some good ones as well...
I have a similar computer and this card works perfectly for me (Sony Vaio 2.66Ghz, 533FSB etc. etc. I would highly recommend upgrading your ram though because I have 512MB DDR333 and its BAAARELY good enough.)
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17. October 2006 @ 11:03 |
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26. October 2006 @ 06:35 |
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26. October 2006 @ 12:51 |
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26. October 2006 @ 12:53 |
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I thought it was too good to be true.
Thanks for the info
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