I only want to view the channels on my virgin subscription. Not really planning on recording anything. I just wana get rid of the tv because its taking up space. Im planning on geting a bigger monitor soon so id just the monitor as my primary tv viewing method.
2008/10/15 Rob Beard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Javad Ayaz wrote: > > now that you understand my setup...would an analogue tv card be better > > than a digital one or vice versa? > > > > Well it depends exactly what you want to do. > > To give you an idea... I have put a TV card in my kids PC after their TV > blew up. The original idea was to install MythTV and use a Freeview TV > card so they could record their favourite programmes. However the > actual Freeview card would only pick up a handful of channels. So in > the end I just put in an analogue TV card (Pinnacle PCI PC TV Card) and > plugged in a Freeview box. I decided to just use TV Time to view the > output from the Freeview box and their games consoles on the monitor. > > So I'd say if you want to just watch TV on the PC, a basic analogue card > will probably do the job. Just get a SCART to Phono cable so you can > plug the Virgin box into the PC. You'll also probably need something > for audio (some boxes have stereo photo outputs on the back, others > don't so you'll need a 3.5mm to 2 x Photo cable and optionally a dual > phono to phono coupler if you don't have audio output on the box, so you > can connect the audio from the phonos on the SCART cable to the line in > on your PC sound card). I haven't had a Virgin Media box in a while so > I can't remember what outputs it has. Another alternative if your box > supports it is to use an S-Video cable from the Virgin box to the PC. > That'll give a better quality picture. > > Or.... you could get a Freeview card and use MythTV. That way MythTV > will be able to record the Freeview channels to your hard drive. With > multiple Freeview sticks/cards you'll be able to record more than one > channel, or watch one channel while recording another but you'll need an > aerial connection as a minimum, and possibly depending on your setup, a > Freeview aerial on the roof (you may be lucky and get away without this). > > Rob > > -- > ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ >
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