sarasquares

iTrader: (1)

...someone said that i can do this with my flat panel monitor, is this true?

i know i mispelt the thread title

GC8

If I answer this I will be in no way responsible for the outcome.


You can either use an external USB TV tuner; Hauppauge (****. Ho'pog) being the most popular. Slightly more difficult and certain to end in disaster; an internal PCI TV tuner card; cheap ones start at under £20, Hauppauge a little more; you might consider getting a Hauppauge PVR card (PVR 150 @ £60) which has a hardware MPEG2 compressor on-board too.

Get someone to install it for you Sara ffs.

Simon

Gav1

You can do this with a plug in upgrade that goes into the back of your tower. I have one on mine called ATI...it gives me a DVD player, TV, VCD player, MP3 File player, and a library service(??).
Not to sure how it works or where you would get it from but i know you can do it. You will also need a terrestrial TV aerial plugging into the back of your tower to recieve TV.

Gav.

GC8

AverMedia used to do a standalone box to to this also, but I dont think theyve made one for a long time, it was a tuner with a pass-through for your VGA cable.

Simon

sarasquares

iTrader: (1)

you wouldnt recomend i do it my self then

GC8

This coming from a woman who knocks down the chimney breast thats holding up her house..... It isnt difficult Sara but consodering your dyspraxia, it might be better getting a competant friend to do it.

Simon

sarasquares

iTrader: (1)

lol, i stopped taking my breast off, hokey kokey

.....and you think my friends are more competant than me?

Kyl3cook

I use a PCTV TV card...cost about £40 I think and dead easy to fit... (I'm quite surprised it works actually)

GC8

Hauppauge cards start at £23 ish; the new PVR cards which have a hardware MPEG2 encoder on-board can be had for under £60 (PVR150) and these are an excellent buy, they support WindowsXP Media Centre Edition too. I have one just for the MPEG2 encoder card as it can be used to record analogue video full-frame in real time using the same type of compression as DVDs do.

Any PCI card is simple to fit as long as you carefully follow the instructions.....

Simon

sarasquares

iTrader: (1)

.....must follow instructions, think thats where i go wrong...........