Thanks for your comments. I've been surfing for more details on these WinTV cards... quite a variety it seems, but very scant on whether or not they can decode a terrestrial channel by simply plugging an ariel lead into the back and tuning them. I have seen there are several drivers available tho for the range so that doesn't seem to be a problem. Also it seems you have to make sure you get one for the UK transmission system [PAL] which seems to limit you, for some reason, to a mono audio signal and also no wide-screen mode reception, unless I read it wrong? The US-spec cards seem to have a multitude of extra features on them.
Comments welcome until this is sorted ;-) magnet >yes, any wintv pci card should work great, as long as the card supports PAL > the software will too, the brooktree drivers (BTTV84X chips) work fine in my > mandrake setup, and have in every version since 7.0, right out of the box. > > > On Wednesday 13 March 2002 12:10, you wrote: > > System: Mandrake 8.0 running on a Gigabyte GA-71XE4 mobo, Athlon 1.2GHz, > > 256MB ram and a 20Gb HDD. Very stable atm :) > > > > I would like to know if there is a PCI card that would enable me to view > > terestrial television broadcasts like bbc1, bbc2, bbc4, bbc knowledge, > > itv1, itv2, channel 4 and channel 5 using the signal from my ariel? > > > > I'm not interested in satellite or pay-to-view channels, but just the > > standard channels and the free digital-via-ariel channels. > > > > It would be great to use the linux box rather than buying a whole new > > television or buying a set-top-box for my old television, allowing me to > > view true widescreen output on a crisp monitor display. > > > > Do such cards also offer the possibility to capture programs onto the > > harddrive allowing for saving or just viewing later [digital VCR > > effectively]? > > > > Teletext would be a bonus, but not essential ;-) > > > > Hope you can help me with this question :) > > > > magnet > > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com >
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