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risingLAL

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3. August 2008 @ 01:38

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I want to buy a HP TV tuner for Vista(brand new) but I still have a few questions about exactly how it work.

1-How exactly do you watch TV(cable)? Is it wireless, or do you have to have something running from the cable box?
2-If you have to connect your PC directly to your cable box, do you need any new equipment?
3-Can you watch TV on your computer and TV simultaneously? So your the tuner card is essentially an extra DVR?
4-What gets better quality; composite or S-video?

There's a few questions here, but if anyone could answer my questions, I'd be mighty grateful.

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nickberry

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7. August 2008 @ 16:17

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I dont own that card but I'll try to help as no one else has yet. but before i answer your questions, here is some general info about PCTV cards:

imagine the card is like a TV set - you have 2 types of input - tuner (channels 1 to 40) and composite (channel 0/AV1). with the viewer software (such as media center) you can choose to watch 'normal' broadcast tv by pluging an ariel in to the card and selecting from channels 1 to 40, or you can watch your freeview/cable tv/dvd player/video recorder etc by pluging it scart cable into the composite and selecting channel0/AV1.

1- you connect your cable tv box to the composite input via a scart cable.
2- you may need a scart break-out cable to convert scart to red/white/yellow plugs - you may have seen these cables with games consoles.
3- you can do this if you have a break-out box that will split one signal input into 2 signal output (think of a Y connection) - 1 goes to your TV the other to your PC.
4- S-Video is better quality than Composite, but unless the tuner card is HD i doubt you'll see a massive difference...

I hope some of this helps... ;)

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risingLAL

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8. August 2008 @ 20:27

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Thanks Nick, that helped a ton!! I appreciate you taking some time to help out. Thanks.

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