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<blockquote data-quote="eSCHEn" data-source="post: 24859" data-attributes="member: 16113"><p>Hi, I will be upgrading my current development system to a 64bit platform and so I will have a spare box to play with. I am hoping to install Media Portal on it and I believe that it fulfils the minimum specification but I just wanted to check. Here's the bits and bobs:</p><p>Athlon 1600XP</p><p>512Mb PC2100</p><p>Radeon 9000 Pro 128Mb</p><p>HDD not yet sure but likely to be 80Gb Western Digital ATA133 7200RPM</p><p>DVD Burner</p><p></p><p>The second part to my question is regarding the choice of a TV card. I have narrowed my selection of card down to two cards, the Hauppauge Win TV PVR 150 and the Hauppauge Win TV Nova-T PCI. Now I'm a little green on the whole digital TV thing but I presume that as the PVR 150 does analogue only it will be defunct when my region in the UK goes digital in 2008? Also, I see that the Nova-T does Freeview as well as digital but will it accept analogue signals as well? The reason I ask is that I have poor digital reception in my area, as seen <a href="http://img153.imageshack.us/img153/7466/digitalchannels9dm.gif" target="_blank">here</a>, and I would be unable to recieve two of the main five channels (ITV1 and Channel 4).</p><p></p><p>Any recommendations between the two cards would be most appreciated.</p><p></p><p>Almost forgot to ask, if I purchase a separate set-top box for Freeview, would I be able to use this as an input to a TV card?</p><p></p><p></p><p>Many thanks for your time.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="eSCHEn, post: 24859, member: 16113"] Hi, I will be upgrading my current development system to a 64bit platform and so I will have a spare box to play with. I am hoping to install Media Portal on it and I believe that it fulfils the minimum specification but I just wanted to check. Here's the bits and bobs: Athlon 1600XP 512Mb PC2100 Radeon 9000 Pro 128Mb HDD not yet sure but likely to be 80Gb Western Digital ATA133 7200RPM DVD Burner The second part to my question is regarding the choice of a TV card. I have narrowed my selection of card down to two cards, the Hauppauge Win TV PVR 150 and the Hauppauge Win TV Nova-T PCI. Now I'm a little green on the whole digital TV thing but I presume that as the PVR 150 does analogue only it will be defunct when my region in the UK goes digital in 2008? Also, I see that the Nova-T does Freeview as well as digital but will it accept analogue signals as well? The reason I ask is that I have poor digital reception in my area, as seen [url=http://img153.imageshack.us/img153/7466/digitalchannels9dm.gif]here[/url], and I would be unable to recieve two of the main five channels (ITV1 and Channel 4). Any recommendations between the two cards would be most appreciated. Almost forgot to ask, if I purchase a separate set-top box for Freeview, would I be able to use this as an input to a TV card? Many thanks for your time. [/QUOTE]
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