Digital TV Card?

[breal]

Anyone have experience with these? Ideally I would like to be able to watch freeview tv on my PC, as I don't really have room for a TV beside the PC, and the ability to use it as a PVR would be useful...

 

[old.user4556]

Anyone have experience with these? Ideally I would like to be able to watch freeview tv on my PC, as I don't really have room for a TV beside the PC, and the ability to use it as a PVR would be useful...

Not 100% sure on this, but the card I was looking at for the same reasons as yourself was this WinTV Nexus-S:

http://www.hauppauge.co.uk/html/digitaltv_prod.htm#dvbs

It has a built in freeview decoder, the functionality to connect it to a satellite dish / cable and support for digital radio.

Hauppauge gives the possibility of entering the Digital world of Satellite with its digital card WinTV-Nexus-s! It will be able to receive Digital Free to air Television, and to have a fast access to Turbo Internet. Note - Digital Satellite Dish required. Get digital video broadcasts on your PC: Receive free-to-air digital TV and radio stations directly on your PC! WinTV-Nexus-s is a single slot DVB receiver board which brings digital satellite broadcasts (TV and radio) to your PC. Digital reception provides incredibly sharp TV pictures and near CD quality radio. With WinTV-Nexus-s, you can watch digital TV broadcasts in a resizeable window on your PC screen and listen to digital radio in stereo. WinTV-Nexus-s lowers the cost of digital TV reception by using your PC's processor to decode the TV image. If you have a 400MHz Pentium II or faster, you can use Nexus-s to display TV while still running other PC's applications. Surf the net while you watch high quality digital TV.

available from overclockers.co.uk:

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/acatalog/TV_Cards.html

I thought it was really pricey for what it is, but iirc standalone digital tuners cost ~£100.

Edit: There is a "freeview" one for digital terrestrial only called the WinTV Nova-t. http://www.stuff-uk.net/acatalog/z_ST-909.htm - this may be a lot better for you as it costs ~£90 (shop around tho) from that site. This isn't suitable for me, as it doesn't support satellite I believe.

Spec here http://www.hauppauge.co.uk/html/digitaltv_prod.htm#novatpci

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[Ch3tan]

DVB boxes for freeview cost as low as £40. We sell a sagem one at work for £59.99.

 

[Deadmanwalking]

DVB boxes for freeview cost as low as £40. We sell a sagem one at work for £59.99.

Hehe, work... and where is that again Ch3tan? :wub:

 

[Clown]

Guest? Account deleted or strange custom title?

 

[Xavier]

Custom title methinks, Leggy is also running around with one, 'banned' - it won't take Deebs long to ban them from the list of words you can use

 

[Ch3tan]

Custom title methinks, Leggy is also running around with one, 'banned' - it won't take Deebs long to ban them from the list of words you can use

We payed for the right to have custom titles, as long as they dont break the coc I dont see whats wrong with them. Forum should be removed from banned words for those who want to masquerade as Forum Deity as well.

 

[Clown]

Why is 'forum' a banned word?

 

[Ch3tan]

So you cant set forum deity as your title apparently.