Now im sure there must be a way to do this, im just not sure how! Is there any way for me to connect say my sky digital box to my pc somehow to capture tv shows that i can then burn to dvd and keep?

Im sure i have seen people on here post screenshots of tv shows so there must be a way of connecting the two, hopefully someone can advise

David

 

My old PC has an ATI Allwonder graphics card and can plug the TV into that. The software that comes with the card allows you to watch TV on various different size boxes (always on top) whilst doing something else on the PC.

Jen

 

Yeh ATI AIW cards are good. If u want to put stuff onto DVD etc, then a dedicated PC capture cards is what you want. Connected either on RGB or S-video to your sky box. Nothing fancy is needed for average quality dvd authoring. Around the £30-100 mark will get you what you need. E.g Leadtek Winfast XP expert capture.

 

I bought a Hauppauge PVR 350 for recording sat films etc. This card has S-Video in and hardware captures at up to MPEG-2 12Mb/sec quality. I have no problem capturing movies from sat chans like Kiosk and then burning them to DVD.

http://www.itreviews.co.uk/hardware/h427.htm

 

Sorry to butt in, but I have a Hauppagge WiNTV USB thing at the mo, piped out to a second monitor.

But i must say the picture is awful. So grainy its hard to read the text on the cable channel selector.

As i don't need the tuner capabilities, would i be better off getting the aforementioned cards, will they give me a better picture quality?

 

Sid yep, theres no point getting Hauppage as u say they have a tv or digital tuner built in which u dont need. Get a dedicated tv capture card. Leadtek are good quality.

 

cheers

 

I'd deffo take a dedicated hardware MPEG 2 card for capture over any GFX card with TV out. They are two completely different animals.

 

Jye you mean a gfx card with TV IN or VIVO Actually even a card without Mpeg2 encoding, as long as u have a relatively quick pc, u dont need either.