RE: TV Cards

["Darryl Mattocks" <Darryl.Mattocks@xxxxxxx>]

> Probably not much help to you, but I have one working fine under XP.


Graham,

What's the picture quality like?  I've already got a new graphics card .
maybe I should up to XP as well!
Regards
Darryl

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-----Original Message-----
From: Graham Howe [mailto:graham@xxxxxxx]
Sent: 05 May 2003 09:46
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
Subject: RE: [ukha_d] TV Cards

Probably not much help to you, but I have one working fine under XP. The
only problem I have is that it only goes up to channel 69 and so can't
receive the bbc radio channels which would have been useful.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bruno Prior [mailto:bruno@xxxxxxx]
> Sent: 05 May 2003 01:29
> To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [ukha_d] TV Cards
>
>
> I have been struggling to get the Hauppauge Nova-T (digital
> tuner) working
> under linux. I sent a message to the linux-dvb list
> suggesting that linux
> wasn't much good at this sort of thing, and someone who
> seemed to know a
> thing or two wrote a reply including the following comment:
>
> "you are hopefully aware that with that other glory OS you
> still have major trouble if your Hauppauge TV-card (not DVB)
> shares an interrupt with other cards, same is true for ISDN
cards."
>
> No idea if this is true - the only analogue TV tuner I have
> tried is an ATI
> All-In-Wonder Pro, and I have had as much success with that
> on linux as I
> have with the Nova-T. Have to say, the picture from the AIW was quite
> reasonable on Windows, before I ditched it. If only I hated
> Microsoft a
> little less....
>
> Could be worth checking your interrupts, though.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Bruno
>
>
> Darryl Mattocks wrote:
> > I have just bought the Hauppauge PVR250 card and I can't
> get a decent
> > quality picture out of it.
> >
> > Has anyone else got any insights into TV cards?  Can I
> expect to watch
> > a picture full screen on a Plasma linked PC just as good as
> a normal
> > TV, or is it always going to be worse?
> >
> > Its hard to pinpoint the problems with the Hauppauge,
> except that the
> > picture seems a bit jumpy and switching between channels
> takes a long
> > time. I tried to fool SWMBO by switching to the Hauppauge
> whilst she
> > was out of the room and then just casually asking what she
> thought ...
> > answer was a four letter word beginning with "C". 
Surreptitiously
> > switching back to normal Sky resulted in a "now that's
better".
> >
> > It's a pity as I was quite keen to get a Tivo / Sky Plus like
thing
> > going, but there's not much point if the quality isn't there.
> >
> > Anyhow, if anyone has any pointers ....
> >
> > Regards
> > Darryl.
>
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