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Watch and record TV shows on a PC?
Name: droot14 Date: January 6, 2007 at 15:39:38 Pacific OS: windows xp CPU/Ram: 2.5/2gb Product: custom
Comment:
Hey, I know its possible to watch satellite TV on your computer. I have a satellite reciever (Dish network) in a different room, and I would like to watch that on my computer. I noticed that on the back of the reciever it has an s-video port. Could I get a s-video cable and connect it onto the back of my computer and watch it? Thanks
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Name: jhunt303 Date: January 6, 2007 at 19:05:36 Pacific
Reply:
Yes, but you need to buy a TV card. MSI do a fairly inexpensive one and it will accept s-video as an input. You can go a step further and buy a full-blown capture device, but it's not really worth it unless you want to make videos etc..
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Response Number 2
Name: rhawk7938 Date: January 6, 2007 at 19:55:49 Pacific
Reply:
Take a look Hauppauge pci tuner cards, will allow you to record shows to the PC as well. On sale you can get one for around $60.
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Response Number 3
Name: Zennon Date: January 9, 2007 at 00:09:05 Pacific
Reply:
You may also use a Pinnacle USB2 TV tuner with an antenna input (provided that your SAT tuner has such an output). Price around 60$. Only yesterday I tested it (recording of TV programs) and the results were quite good.
Zennon
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Response Number 4
Name: mario12 Date: January 23, 2007 at 19:34:24 Pacific
Reply:
You need a TV tuner to watch TV on computer. For recording TV show, third party software is needed. Here is an address for guiding how to record tv shows on computer: http://www.soft29.com/how-to/record...
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