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wellington womble



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PostPosted: Mon Nov 22, 04 7:53 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Be nice, wouldn't it, like radio on demand!

One day!

jema
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PostPosted: Mon Nov 22, 04 7:55 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Anonymous wrote:
shame - just wondered if you could get it via broadband


I figure you need about an 8mbs broadband connection for quality TV on demand. This type of connection is making its first inroads in the UK, but is a long way from being common.

jema

mrutty



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PostPosted: Mon Nov 22, 04 8:00 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

From memory that would be a T3 connection to the home. Bit expensive, about £28K a year last time I ordered one.

Sky is about £300 a year I think

Dead Bloke



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PostPosted: Tue Nov 23, 04 11:48 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

mrutty wrote:
From memory that would be a T3 connection to the home. Bit expensive, about £28K a year last time I ordered one.

Sky is about £300 a year I think


I just hate paying cash to that all powerful Aussie

I've got a chipped cable box that allows me to watch pretty much everything for next to nothing as it is

tahir



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PostPosted: Tue Nov 23, 04 11:58 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Naughty naughty

Jonnyboy



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PostPosted: Tue Nov 23, 04 12:14 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

There was an advert the other night from currys or comet. A PC with digicard and tv out. It even uses the hard drive for recording live TV.

jema
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PostPosted: Tue Nov 23, 04 12:19 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Jonnyboy wrote:
There was an advert the other night from currys or comet. A PC with digicard and tv out. It even uses the hard drive for recording live TV.


That is the future of things, it odes need to be a digicard, not just a TV card. Main problem afaik with "media" pcs, is that they are based on windoze and hence terminally flaky as a domestic appliance.

jema

Dead Bloke



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PostPosted: Thu Dec 16, 04 12:34 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

how do these things work then?

Can I put a digicard in my pc and start to use it as an addition telly and save space?

tahir



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PostPosted: Thu Dec 16, 04 12:45 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Yup, haven't tried one though, there's a HTPC section on the avplus forum which you'll probably find interesting, can't find the link right now though

Dead Bloke



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PostPosted: Sat Dec 18, 04 5:59 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

this looks to be the answer

https://www.pricegrabber.co.uk/search_techspecs_full.php/masterid=33889#description

mrutty



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PostPosted: Sat Dec 18, 04 6:10 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Look at the reviews, a poor product ebuyer list quite a few of these cards, but you really have to set aside a PC just for recording programs. SCSI would clearly help, but res will still be poor

tahir



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PostPosted: Sat Dec 18, 04 6:10 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Are you going to go for it? Let us know how you get on I'd be interested too.

Dead Bloke



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PostPosted: Sat Dec 18, 04 7:04 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

after reading the reviews (which I should have done before posting this ) I don't think I'll bother

culpepper



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PostPosted: Sun Dec 19, 04 9:42 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Ive got a capture card for mine(Aver DVD EZmaker) which fits in a PCI slot.I got it for putting our VCR tapes onto VCD and it works very well.
It also lets you watch TV through the Video player.The VCR acts as the TV Tuner. I think the card was about £40. You can download programs to capture video(or watch whats on the VCR ie TV channels) from the Web, a good site is https://www.videohelp.com/ which has excellent advice aswell as downloads and directions.

jema
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PostPosted: Sun Dec 19, 04 9:45 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

culpepper wrote:
Ive got a capture card for mine(Aver DVD EZmaker) which fits in a PCI slot.I got it for putting our VCR tapes onto VCD and it works very well.
It also lets you watch TV through the Video player.The VCR acts as the TV Tuner. I think the card was about £40. You can download programs to capture video(or watch whats on the VCR ie TV channels) from the Web, a good site is https://www.videohelp.com/ which has excellent advice aswell as downloads and directions.


I still get the impression that a lot of this is "Bleeding edge" technology, partially as you still have to rely in windoze which is a crap place to start if you are look for the relibaility of a normal domestic appliance.

jema

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