Recommendation on new TV card (1 Viewer)
- Thread starter allanmb
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United Kingdom
Hi
What you will find is at some point you will want to watch/record 2 different programs, so have a look at the WinTV-NOVA-T-500.
heres the link to the homepage http://www.hauppauge.co.uk/pages/products/data_novat500.html
With the USB issues with my card within MP cannot recommend at moment (Part PCI, Part USB).
So to reiterate, Do not worry about HD all that is a transmitted stream, so literally any decent DVB-T card will do, Its the drivers/software thats the main priority, so this one is pretty good.
If it's not on the supported card list Dman will add it.
Can see it being a very popular card for the UK.
Regards
What you will find is at some point you will want to watch/record 2 different programs, so have a look at the WinTV-NOVA-T-500.
heres the link to the homepage http://www.hauppauge.co.uk/pages/products/data_novat500.html
With the USB issues with my card within MP cannot recommend at moment (Part PCI, Part USB).
So to reiterate, Do not worry about HD all that is a transmitted stream, so literally any decent DVB-T card will do, Its the drivers/software thats the main priority, so this one is pretty good.
If it's not on the supported card list Dman will add it.
Can see it being a very popular card for the UK.
Regards
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- #4
Ok - thanks for the tips guys. I already have a WinTV150 MCE in the machine - I assume there will be no problems running both at the same time? Also, can I get ALL freeview channels with one of these boards? i.e. will I get E4 and Film4 and such like?
Thanks
Allan
Thanks
Allan
Currently receive 55 Channels including above, and some scrambled.
Also Freeview radio stations.
Running more than one TVcard not a problem.
Regards
Also Freeview radio stations.
Running more than one TVcard not a problem.
Regards
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- #6
Excellent. I now have freeview running nicely on the HTPC. I have 2 small queries now.
1) Can I access any interactive content with MP? On sky I used to use bbci to watch different snooker matches or football/tennis/etc. I would like to still access this but not sure if MP or any other software supports this.
2) I manually got xmltv to download the guide info but is there a way to do it automatically? (I have no password set for WinXP - it just auto logs in as a user)
Thanks
Allan
1) Can I access any interactive content with MP? On sky I used to use bbci to watch different snooker matches or football/tennis/etc. I would like to still access this but not sure if MP or any other software supports this.
2) I manually got xmltv to download the guide info but is there a way to do it automatically? (I have no password set for WinXP - it just auto logs in as a user)
Thanks
Allan