Re: [newbie] Digital TV PCI cards - suggestions, recommendations,working setups, problems...

2002-03-14 Thread Bryan Tyson
On Thursday 14 March 2002 18:05, FemmeFatale wrote: > If I may add my 2 cdn cents (worth bout .5 cent on the open market), > Hauppage tv cards AFAIK right now are not a very good buy. At least > this is what I've read. Only because they seem to have issues with > certain types of installations.

Re: [newbie] Digital TV PCI cards - suggestions, recommendations,working setups, problems...

2002-03-14 Thread FemmeFatale
If I may add my 2 cdn cents (worth bout .5 cent on the open market), Hauppage tv cards AFAIK right now are not a very good buy. At least this is what I've read. Only because they seem to have issues with certain types of installations. Damn, wish I'd kept the article. Please read up on it if y

Re: [newbie] Digital TV PCI cards - suggestions, recommendations, working setups, problems...

2002-03-14 Thread magnet
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 th

Re: [newbie] Digital TV PCI cards - suggestions, recommendations,working setups, problems...

2002-03-13 Thread Len Lawrence
On 13 Mar 2002, magnet wrote: > System: Mandrake 8.0 running on a Gigabyte GA-71XE4 mobo, Athlon 1.2GHz, 256MB ram > and a 20Gb HDD. Very stable atm :) The following remarks apply to Mandrake 8.1. > > I would like to know if there is a PCI card that would enable me to view terestrial > television

Re: [newbie] Digital TV PCI cards - suggestions, recommendations, working setups, problems...

2002-03-13 Thread ed tharp
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

[newbie] Digital TV PCI cards - suggestions, recommendations, working setups, problems...

2002-03-13 Thread magnet
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