TV Card??

magentacafc

Hi All

I want to get a TV card for my PC, we've just moved & haven't got space to have both a TV and the PC in the bedroom so I thought this might be a good idea...

I did use one years and years ago but all knowledge I had has gone out of my head. Which is the best one to get? Am I right in thinking you just open up the PC and slot the card in the back, then plug the aerial in to that? How good is the picture & how does it all work, is there anything I need to be careful of?

Help! :mad:

madnlooney

i have got this one from pcworld. pluged it into my pc,connected the ariel and then run the install disk. it did a scan to pick the channels up. the picture is just like watching your tv, but smaller. i have recently pluged my sky box to it which gives a better picture.
There was also a remote in with this card. to change the channel over if you need to.

magentacafc

Thanks! - that looks interesting, and you can do teletext as well?!
This might be a stupid question but where do you need to point the remote to change the channel?

T4i

You can pick up digital channels now with the correct equipment.

My m8 has just bought a USB freeview jobby, works well but takes alot of resources, thats why he bought USb so he can unplug it whenever he not using it.

Something like this:-

http://www.cclonline.com/product-info.asp?product_id=6109&category_id=76&manufacturer_id=0 - with remote & teletext:)

Lots of other on here too.

http://www.cclonline.com/product-categories.asp?category_id=76

madnlooney

magentacafc wrote:

Thanks! - that looks interesting, and you can do teletext as well?!
This might be a stupid question but where do you need to point the remote to change the channel?

there is a sensor which comes with it, it plugs into the card. or as someone has posted, you could get a Freeveiw thing which plugs into a USB port. ive been told you need to be in a strong freeveiw area tho for them to get all the channels tho,

Lob_Rockster

http://mediaportal.sourceforge.net - you might want to get a card that works with this? And then have a Media Centre in the bedroom