On Wednesday 04 Jun 2003 11:40 pm, Steffen Barszus wrote: > Am Mittwoch, 4. Juni 2003 21:07 schrieb Vox: > > On September 1993 plus 3563 days Anne Wilson wrote: > > > On Wednesday 04 Jun 2003 11:49 am, Steffen Barszus wrote: > > > > Unless you are planning on doing something with that video you > > are getting into your computer (ie. record, edit, export), you > > don't need a good video capture card...any bttv based 20 bucks > > card will let you watch TV in your computer without problems. I > > have a TreeView99 card here, and it worked great for over a year > > (I finally fell into temptation and got a real TV, so I'm not > > using the card anymore...tho it's still in the computer and > > worked last time I used it :) > > > > Vox > > You are absolutly right. I would take it another way: If you live > in europe and you have a sat dish that is able to receive digital, > you have to think about a dvb-card. For cable and terristrial there > are rare cases where you would like to have such a card (like in > Berlin, germany where analog terrestrial will be switched off in > near future (or is?)) On sat a nova+dxr3 or a premium TT card is > worth the money (50+ mp2 (192-224 kbit) radiostations and the same > for tv-station, hmmm its more I have nearby 300 stations in my > channels.conf, further you have timeshift easy recording in great > quality etc pp) , but dvb != analog and for the 20-30 programms > (often only 10) i don't know if dvb-t is worth the money. If you > have cable, you would need dvb-c and dvb-c is again incompatible > with sky-tv. So if you want to have a DVR-machine dvb is great, for > just a tv-card the nova-t is completly wrong and to expensive (even > if the nova is cheaper then the big brother, the nexus(200¤ > minimum). > > Steffen
It gets incredibly complicated. The options are so wide. Decisions, decisions.... <g> Anne
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