Yeah, but can you back them up? That's the problem with those some times. -----Original Message----- From: pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Gary Wood Sent: Thursday, January 05, 2012 3:26 AM To: PC Audio Discussion List Subject: Re: over the air tv on a win 7 machine?
I don't know if this is PCAudio related, but I'm using ATT UVerse. With this, I'm able to use the computer to record shows to my DVR, and watch them. It's fairly easy for me to do this way. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Hamit Campos" <hamitcam...@gmail.com> To: "'PC Audio Discussion List'" <pc-audio@pc-audio.org> Sent: Tuesday, January 03, 2012 11:45 PM Subject: RE: over the air tv on a win 7 machine? > Yeah, I know. If there where a Media Center list then maybe. But > that's the thing I'm interested in too. Watching cable TV on the PC. > Specificly it would be a Dell XPS-8300. What I'm interested in knowing > is will it still work. But see the problem is you have to then start > talking about the different carriers, Comcast, AT&T Verison and the > like. That's where Tom said it's too deep. I kind of knew it all > along, but if you want to find out what I want to find out, you have > no choice but get into it that way. But yeah, I got the point though, > Audio is the main point on this list, but even then you can go too > deep. I had to or at least I felt it was wiser for me to take my > discussion about HDMI audio with Dain off list because we were going > to discuss graphics cards for a bit. I figured that might be a little > too much. But yeah, let's see what Tom says, but a Windows Media > Center kind of list would really be where this discussion really > belongs I guess. > > -----Original Message----- > From: pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org > [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] > On Behalf Of David Tanner > Sent: Tuesday, January 03, 2012 11:32 PM > To: PC Audio Discussion List > Subject: Re: over the air tv on a win 7 machine? > > I'm interested, but I want something that makes shows on cable > accessible and that seems to be farther away than access to local TV. > > I would agree that there is a lot of interest, and I understand how it > might be contriversial on a list primarily geared to the discussion of > audio. > The > problem is that I wonder how many folks would subscribe to a list that > only delt with discussion of the topic we are talking about. My guess > is that it would take a lot of publicity to get may people. > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Brett Boyer" <bboyer...@gmail.com> > To: "PC Audio Discussion List" <pc-audio@pc-audio.org> > Sent: Tuesday, January 03, 2012 8:41 PM > Subject: Re: over the air tv on a win 7 machine? > > >> Hi. I'm still very interested in this topic and wish we could discuss >> it further. I know it's a little out-of-the-scope of things on this >> list but I think people are interested in this topic like myself. So >> I beg Tom to let us delve in to this. I myself am tired of paying >> over 130 bucks for these services for 75 percent of it to be >> inaccessible. If I'm the only one that feels this way than I'll bow my head and not mention it again. >> thanks >> bb >> Brett Boyer >> Audio Production and voice over >> http://brettboyer.voices.com >> Brett Boyer's Big Bag of Goodies! >> Check out my radio show at my new home: >> http://www.mushroomfm.com/brettboyer >> every Monday 5 o'clock eastern 2 o'clock pacific Listen to the Shroom >> live! >> http://listen.mushroomfm.com:8760/listen.pls >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Hamit Campos" <hamitcam...@gmail.com> >> To: "'PC Audio Discussion List'" <pc-audio@pc-audio.org> >> Sent: Tuesday, January 03, 2012 7:23 PM >> Subject: RE: over the air tv on a win 7 machine? >> >> >>> Yeah, this right. You need a TV toner that you can put the Comcast >>> card into. I forgot about this. But when I talked to them, they said >>> it should work just fine like it use to. Again, if you all want to >>> go deeper, which > >>> I >>> would want to, E-mail me off list because when you get into things >>> like Comcast and the like, I guess we are going beyond the scope of the list. >>> >>> -----Original Message----- >>> From: pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org >>> [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] >>> On Behalf Of vrvaug...@mailzone.com >>> Sent: Tuesday, January 03, 2012 8:20 PM >>> To: PC Audio Discussion List >>> Subject: Re: over the air tv on a win 7 machine? >>> >>> Gary, This is Vicky. I had thought to work with a TV tuner in my new >>> Windows >>> 7 computer with Jaws 13, but no go. My ISP, Comcast, says now I will >>> only > >>> be >>> able to work this with one of their cards, which I will be having >>> installed on Wednesday January 4. This will be replacing my Set Top >>> Box, so I'll be paying rent on it each month, just like I have done >>> on the Set Top Box. >>> >>> What ISP provider do you have? What card are you successfully using >>> on what computer? >>> >>> Many thanks for any help! Vicky >>> ----- Original Message ----- >>> From: "Gary King" <w4...@bellsouth.net> >>> To: "PC Audio Discussion List" <pc-audio@pc-audio.org> >>> Sent: Saturday, December 10, 2011 8:52 PM >>> Subject: Re: over the air tv on a win 7 machine? >>> >>> >>>> Mary, >>>> In my previous post, I said that I didn't have any experience >>>> setting up Media Center in Windows 7; now I do. Sighted assistance >>>> would definitely be preferred, but if none is available, I would >>>> suggest that the NVDA screen reader would be the best choice for >>>> tackling the setup screens. >>>> I >>>> didn't get anything with Window-Eyes. the OCR in JAWS for Windows >>>> 13 did give me some usable text, but having to Use OCR on every >>>> screen gets rather tedious. NVDA seems to read the setup screens >>>> pretty well, but you do need to know how to get it to speak the >>>> necessary information. >>>> >>>> Once set up, you can use your screen reader of choice to access the >>>> Program Guide. I just press Spacebar to get a particular channel >>>> in the Guide to play or pause. Page Up and Page Down can be used >>>> to change channels. >>>> >>>> I'm enjoying having TV on my computer. I'll have to check out the >>>> recording features next. >>>> >>>> Gary King >>>> w4...@bellsouth.net >>>> ----- Original Message ----- >>>> From: "Mary Otten" <maryot...@comcast.net> >>>> To: "PC Audio Discussion List" <pc-audio@pc-audio.org> >>>> Sent: Wednesday, December 07, 2011 9:29 PM >>>> Subject: Re: over the air tv on a win 7 machine? >>>> >>>> >>>>> Oh, there is no way I'm paying that much for a tv app. Forget it. >>>>> Do you have experience with the Win media set up under win 7, Gary? >>>>> >>>>> Mary >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: >>>>> pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org >>>> >>>> >>>> To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: >>>> pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org >>> >>> >>> To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: >>> pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org >>> >>> >>> To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: >>> pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org >> >> >> To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: >> pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org > > > To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: > pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org > > > To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: > pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org
