Javad Ayaz wrote: > now that you understand my setup...would an analogue tv card be better > than a digital one or vice versa? >
Well it depends exactly what you want to do. To give you an idea... I have put a TV card in my kids PC after their TV blew up. The original idea was to install MythTV and use a Freeview TV card so they could record their favourite programmes. However the actual Freeview card would only pick up a handful of channels. So in the end I just put in an analogue TV card (Pinnacle PCI PC TV Card) and plugged in a Freeview box. I decided to just use TV Time to view the output from the Freeview box and their games consoles on the monitor. So I'd say if you want to just watch TV on the PC, a basic analogue card will probably do the job. Just get a SCART to Phono cable so you can plug the Virgin box into the PC. You'll also probably need something for audio (some boxes have stereo photo outputs on the back, others don't so you'll need a 3.5mm to 2 x Photo cable and optionally a dual phono to phono coupler if you don't have audio output on the box, so you can connect the audio from the phonos on the SCART cable to the line in on your PC sound card). I haven't had a Virgin Media box in a while so I can't remember what outputs it has. Another alternative if your box supports it is to use an S-Video cable from the Virgin box to the PC. That'll give a better quality picture. Or.... you could get a Freeview card and use MythTV. That way MythTV will be able to record the Freeview channels to your hard drive. With multiple Freeview sticks/cards you'll be able to record more than one channel, or watch one channel while recording another but you'll need an aerial connection as a minimum, and possibly depending on your setup, a Freeview aerial on the roof (you may be lucky and get away without this). Rob -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
