best tv card

ants83 · 5 Jun 2006 at 23:48

upstairs i have a sky box can i run a s video cable from the box to a pci tv card?if so what tv card would be best?thanks for any help here!

csmager · 6 Jun 2006 at 10:29

Not windows... or indeed anything to do with software at all. GH?

That aside, probably possible. Doubt there would be much difference in cards. If you only want to do S-Video, it might be worth looking into just a capture card.

ants83 · 6 Jun 2006 at 11:28

think im gonna try an aerial from the sky box to my pc, would it be perfect quality like sky or would i need a decent tv card ive got one but its old time for an upgrade?

Phil2008 · 6 Jun 2006 at 15:20

What about the "Compro VideoMate DVB-T300" card. It can even turn your pc on and off.

http://www.digit-life.com/articles2/monitor/compro-t300.html

ants83 · 6 Jun 2006 at 15:52

looks good. ran the aerial to my tv that was a good picture ran it on my pc with the tv card picture quality was crap. will it be improved with a better card?

Energize · 6 Jun 2006 at 17:06

S-video from sky to a tv card is awful.

Amp34 · 6 Jun 2006 at 17:35

Have a look at the Leadtek DTV1000T, a good cheap card with much better software than the majority of cards. Although a capture card may be just as useful.

mrk · 6 Jun 2006 at 18:59

A direct svideo connection is good quality, it's composite (or converted sources) that are bad quality.

I have the DTV1000T and it is an amazing card and high quality.

Energize · 6 Jun 2006 at 19:48

mrk said:
A direct svideo connection is good quality, it's composite (or converted sources) that are bad quality.

I have the DTV1000T and it is an amazing card and high quality.

Well when me and many other people have used skys s-video it was awful.

ants83 · 6 Jun 2006 at 20:41

i have a leadtek t200 xp i think its called i have a perfect picture on the tv but on this card its terrible. Would the Leadtek DTV1000T fix this problem?

mrk · 6 Jun 2006 at 20:42

Energize said:
Well when me and many other people have used skys s-video it was awful.

I dont know what skys svideo out is like but svideo is certainly very sharp and crisp on this card.

Are you enabling/disabling RGB mode when outputting from the sky box? does *** sky ox have direct SVIDEO out instead of going through a scart block adapter?

Etc.

Energize · 6 Jun 2006 at 20:50

Direct svideo and composite are awful with sky, everything blurs on the screen. When I looked on other forums apparently its a common problem with sky boxes and tv cards. We can only hope that sky hd boxes will look ok with component or hd-sdi.