TV cards?

[thefullcollapse]

i have just been looking around and ive decided i might purchase a tv card that also does hd tv. Though i feel the only problem is the software they come with. So could someone please tell me a card that comes with good software or good software that can work on certain card

cheers

 

[HEADRAT]

Well the question should be how are you going to recieve HD, at the moment there are only 2 options:-

1. Satellite dish and a DVB-S card
2. You live near Crystal Palace and you can pickup DVB-T test HD test transmissions.

You have to remember these are they very early days of HD so it not quite plug-and-play yet, DVBViewer I believe is supposed to be very good (3rd party app).

HEADRAT

 

[thefullcollapse]

ok dont worry about the signal, id just like an hd one so i dont have to buy one later.


will DVB viewer work with any tv card?

 

[HEADRAT]

ok dont worry about the signal, id just like an hd one so i dont have to buy one later.

will DVB viewer work with any tv card?

Most of the new DVB Cards say that they will be HD capable, I think it's actually a little early to judge if they will be or not

DVB viewer will work with the following :-

http://www.dvbviewer.com/en/index.php?page=features

HEADRAT

 

[fornowagain]

If your talking about satellite, then most of the HD will end up on DVB-S2 (H.264 stream). Apart from the player (AltDVB is free and works well in HD, DVBViewer is OK for HD), you'll need an HD codec, CoreAVC 1.2 or PowerDVD 7.2HD.

BBCHD looks amazing, I watch it when I can, now I've got the bugs out. I'm even considering getting a SkyHD subscription and using a DVB-S2 card and a Dragon CAM in a CI slot.

 

[Lanz]

All a DVB card does is recieve streams, they then use your CPU to decode the streams to mpeg (or whatever) So really, all they are all capable of doing HDtv. But the last time I looked (which was last summer when the HD footy was coming from crystal palace) only Pinnicle cards had released proper software to watch HD.

TBH, its really not something you should be worrying about too much, it'll be at least 2010 or beyond until HDTV is available on freeview. And by that time, TV cards will probably have HD decoding onboard (which none do now) so any card you buy now will be crap by 2010 anyway.