Sky / TV card?

meghatronic · 3 Sep 2006 at 20:58

I'm thinking about getting a basic £15 Sky subscription for my room as I don't have a decent aerial for freeview......

Now, do I need a tv card (to connect to the sky box) for this? Or would my x1900 VIVO suffice?

meghatronic · 4 Sep 2006 at 08:03

Anyone?

broady212003 · 4 Sep 2006 at 08:28

Hi,

Im not 2 sure about your setup, but I used a cheap pci tv card and ran a cable from my sky box second ant/out (RF2) and then tuned the card in and it work fine.

If you are wanting 2 use sky on your pc in a different room 2 your didgi box then you can use the sky tv link kit, however you still need to feed the cable from sky box 2 pc.

Dont use a transmitter kit as it seems 2 mess the signals up after abit.

Hope this helps abit, any probs just let me know

meghatronic · 4 Sep 2006 at 21:24

Well, as sad as it is I'm getting Sky just for my room... so the box will be next to me.

It is either new aerial + freeview pci card, or card + Sky.

Not sure which'll be best.

My monitor takes composite in and I have an extra L/R phono input on my speakers so I can use a scart -> phono to plug it all up to watch without pc booted. Then I can run the rf to the pci card and tune that in to watch when pc is on...

That sound right?

broady212003 · 5 Sep 2006 at 07:15

Hi,

If you are having sky box in the same room then that will make things a whole lot more easy, just link the sky box 2 your tv pci card and then tune it in, once you have done that the tv card should pick it up as a normal tv channel and that should be the end of the install side of things.

Then all you need 2 do is sit back and enjoy.

z0mbi3 · 5 Sep 2006 at 07:19

broady212003 said:
If you are having sky box in the same room then that will make things a whole lot more easy, just link the sky box 2 your tv pci card and then tune it in, once you have done that the tv card should pick it up as a normal tv channel and that should be the end of the install side of things.

Then all you need 2 do is sit back and enjoy.

jdickerson said:
Or would my x1900 VIVO suffice?

All he needs is to plugin the sky box via composite if I understand vivo correctly.

meghatronic · 6 Sep 2006 at 00:24

How do I 'view' it via vivo though?

And I couldn't record could I?

Steve09 · 6 Sep 2006 at 00:59

broady212003 said:
I used a cheap pci tv card and ran a cable from my sky box second ant/out (RF2)

What cable did you use?

Thanks

z0mbi3 · 6 Sep 2006 at 08:21

coax by the sounds of it.

However for best picture its S-video > Composite > RF

Pipe & Slippers · 6 Sep 2006 at 14:07

you know you don't have to pay a monthly subscription and can get a card off Sky for £20 that enables you to receive freeview channels?