Which digital Tv Card?

TheDean

TheDean

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Hi all,

I'm looking for a good Tv card for my Pc to pick up all free to air digital channels. I don't need two tuners and would obvously like to keep the price down if I can - but I still want the best quality and HD functionality. Can anyone recommend me a good one?
 
quantumisation said:
is there an actual difference between any of these apart from the name?
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Yes, they are all made from completley different parts and use different software.

I have a compro and it's crap. When changing channel it just randomly loses the signal and has to have the program restarted.
 
With the latest compro drivers and software, the cards get a new lease of life .

Xp64/Vista64 compatible

setup digital Region - which means find all channels in 10-15 seconds.

when selecting a channel, if for some reason it cant lock onto it, it will either retry or fall back on the previous channel

Interface is sparce but functional, faster channel switching

probably other stuff too which i take for granted as i update the software so often. Comming from the old software that come with the card - its a totaly new and pleasing experiance ;) The hauppauge cards can only dream of being as good.

For T200/T300 and similar cards:-

http://www.comprousa.com/downloadfiles/VMHybrid_1357.exe - Driver
http://www.comprousa.com/downloadfiles/ComproDTV3034.exe - Viewer
 
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I has Hauppauge Nova-T 500 but install dont come with EPG listing as you need to find download as it dont work under Visat x64 - only the driver that seem partly complete installed but didnt install the EPG listing downloader and Ive send to Tech Support but no reply...
 
I've used a Nebula DigiTV PCI card with no problems for the last couple years.
EPG goes far enough ahead, programmable recording, and can broadcast round your network, requring just the software on each machine, and 1 card in the host machine.
edit: That's on Windows XP though, I haven't tried on any other OS.
 
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What exactly do you mean when you say you want HD functionality?

HD is not broadcast on freeview, and is unlikely to be until at least 2012 when the last analogue transmitters are switched off.

I believe a couple of broadcasters are trialing an HD signal from the Crystal Palace transmitter, but I'm not sure whether or not you can decode this on a PC...
 
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tripitaka said:
What exactly do you mean when you say you want HD functionality?

HD is not broadcast on freeview, and is unlikely to be until at least 2012 when the last analogue transmitters are switched off.

I believe a couple of broadcasters are trialing an HD signal from the Crystal Palace transmitter, but I'm not sure whether or not you can decode this on a PC...
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I thought you could pick up BBC HD on freeview?
 
Hmm,

I've just had a bit of a google. I've read of people being able to dump the stream to their hard drive and then decode it, but not read of anybody being able to view it like you would a normal station.

It's not a full time channel anyway, I wouldn't consider it to be a factor in choosing a freeview card to be honest.
 
In theory all thats required is a codec update for the tv software when hd freeview actually gets here. the hardware will just reveal the stream to the computer as usual and its upto the software to decode.
 
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