On 29 Oct 2001, Nathan England wrote:
>
> I'm looking for a TV Card for my computer.
> I don't care so much about video capture, it would be nice but
> deffinately not a neccessity. I don't want anything real spectacular.
>
> So I'm curious, is anyone running tv cards? I used to have an STB TV
> PCI and it was horrible. It never could pick up a decent signal,
> broadcast or cable. I don't watch enough tv to pay for cable, so I'll
> be using broadcast.
>
I am running a TV card. I got a Hauppauge TV card running my Linux box and
that is what I would recomend to everybody.
In my case, I am using a VCR to feed a video signal into the card as the
rf signal is too weak to be picked up by the card.
Once I got the kernel configured for the card, it has been no problem
watching TV. Heck, I watch tv all the time while I'm online and since I
got a 19 inch monitor and run X at 1600 by 1200, I got my tv window
running at 640x480. It's just the right size while I'm on the irc
channel.
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