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Unread 12 Mar 2003, 17:22   #1
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Does anyone here have one, and are they any good?
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Unread 12 Mar 2003, 17:23   #2
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Yeah, but I never made any serious attempt to get it to work.
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I had one, but I hardly ever used it. It wasn't bad or anything, I just prefer to watch TV on a TV, especially as TVs are generally much bigger than monitors.
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tv is better by far generally
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i got one hauppage wintv one with radio as well

very useful studenty wise, and it can get a little fuzzy, and not high definition

but it is good and saves on having two TV's (note monitor and TV) in your bedroom
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I have wintv too but I vote against its clones.

My uncle has one and the software is very ****.
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I had a nice pinnacle one.

Plugged the arial (ariel?) straight into it, worked lovely, just like a tv. My monitor was 21" so it was nice and big.

It also could record at perfect quality. It send the hard drive mad and took up a LOT of HD space but it was nice. i could set it to record something in the night and then wake up in the morning and watch it.
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Vanilla try compressing it into divx, that might help...
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Yeah, I could've, but at the time i had like 150GB spare space (we're talking over a year ago) so i used to let it build up, watch it and then delete it.

No need to compress the stuff the storage cost me a fortune, might as well use it
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buy a telly you cheapskate.
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Bought a cheapish Hauppauge Nicam tuner card. Pictures ok but still a bit strange compared to a standard PAL TV (and NTSC I guess).

Tunes cable and radio too. And WinTV allows you to record but I never got this to work. Never needed to really.
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Oh, it's not for me. My brother came into some money and decided he wanted a TV card. Is it worth him getting one? And more importantly, how much do they cost?
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Had a quick look on Scan for prices.

£25 quid for WinTV to go, which is a bog standard basic TV card (Mono probably).

The more expensive ones can do TiVo style stuff and can record direct to MPEG-2.
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I have one of those!

I've put Sky through it. I watch Sky.
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i got one of the WinTV jobbys, got the £80 card for £40 cos of a PC world 'mistake', anyway, works fine for me, i can watch TV / Video's / FreeView at uni without the need for a seperate screen which i really don't have the space for.
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