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pok125

pok125

pok125

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Apologies if this is in the wrong place, but I couldn't find a more specific forum.

Basically, Im thinking about getting a tv card, I have a pretty ample tv but I need to turn round to watch it while on the computer, and sometimes it might be handy to have a little window on my comp with tv on it.

I dont really know much about them tho, so I've got a few questions if anyone feels like helping :)

Is the quality similar to a freeview box?

Some cards say HD ready or HD compatible, do some freeview channels broadcast in HD and will it be in HD on my monitor?

I see prices starting at £30, but some are a lot more exspensive, but they dont appear to be much better, how come?

Cheers to anyone who can help out :)
 
IMHO i would recommend the freecom USB stick, its just as good as freeview and is HD ready. Not that any freeview channels transmit in HD yet, they will do though, sooner or later they will! probably near 2012 whent he analogue switches off we'll start to see HD freeview
 
hey guys, I got the freecom stick, but I have a slight problem, I have 4 out of 6 for reception, but I get no picture and pretty much no sound other than a few blips, every now and then I see a couple of frames, but surely this shouldnt be happening with 4 out of 6 and the fact all my other tvs work fine through the same aerial?
 
pok125 said:
hey guys, I got the freecom stick, but I have a slight problem, I have 4 out of 6 for reception, but I get no picture and pretty much no sound other than a few blips, every now and then I see a couple of frames, but surely this shouldnt be happening with 4 out of 6 and the fact all my other tvs work fine through the same aerial?
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are you using a dual core machine?I had the same prob. had to go to task manager and set the affinity of the DVBTV process to one CPU. Freecom tech support were pretty good with me
 
Nope im single core, I tried plugging in a different aerial and it seems to work a bit better, but still not really watchable. I gotta go out for a while but Ill get in touch with their tech support when I get in :)
 
well im actually on my second one as the first one was replaces because the silver part where the coax goes into came lose and wouldnt stay in but they replaced it no prob.
 
I have a Nebula digiTV PCI card which has suddenly broken on thursday night :( Gonna try it in a friends PC first to make sure its deffo broke though (requested a replacement already though because the warranty runs out on the 16/09/06! so I thought i'd better get it going whilst it was still under warranty).

It is a really good card though and haven't had any issues with it at all (untill now), and so you shouldn't for £100! Although its about £80 now, but still.
 
Well I got some channels working, it seems its just a little more picky than my real digiboxes, and it seems when searching for channels I can only pick "UK" as my country, and not Scotland, and as the programmes differ slightly my tv guide is all wrong so I have to manually set a timer to record stuff :/
 
Seems my Nebula card isn't dead after all. I tried it in another PC and it worked fine, so I tried it back in my PC again and it worked fine too :S Must have been a loose connection - Its not screwed in, just has some clip over my pci/agp slots (thing that came with my case) - but I do have a huge screw which has the AGP card in place as its quite heavy!
 
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