Best TV PC options?

[tb582]

I currently have a Sony GDM monitor and a Wild Cat VP 880 Pro what are my options for watching my cable TV on the monitor from time to time?

[tb582]

anyone?

[thecoalman]

Just for viewing, inexpensive? A simple Tv tuner card like the Leadtek 2000xp is good enough.

Has FM tuner and even a remote, $50....

[tb582]

but what type of quality will I get? the monitor is capable of 1920x1200 - and could I just hook my cable box up to the tuner card?

[thecoalman]

but what type of quality will I get?

Good enough for occasional viewing, the monitor size is irrelevant because it exceeds the broadcast resolution. Other cards may give you a slightly better picture but overall it's not going to be huge amount. Note that you can capture video with this card but if it's for anything other than record/watch/delete I'd suggest looking at something better.

and could I just hook my cable box up to the tuner card?

It accepts anything a regular TV would, CATV, RCA, S-Video or even an Antennae.

[thecoalman]

There's some links to screenshots about 1/3 of the page down.


https://www.videohelp.com/capturecards.php?CaptureCardRead=283#comments

[tb582]

but what type of quality will I get?

Good enough for occasional viewing, the monitor size is irrelevant because it exceeds the broadcast resolution. Other cards may give you a slightly better picture but overall it's not going to be huge amount. Note that you can capture video with this card but if it's for anything other than record/watch/delete I'd suggest looking at something better.

so if the monitor exceeds the broadcast res of 1920x1080, then I should but able to hook my cable box up to a tuner card and go to the HD ch's and get good quality, right? What would be a slightly better card?

[thecoalman]

If you're looking for HD AFAIK you can't do it with that card. It ony tunes analog channels. I don't have any suggestions for HD, no experience. :P

[edDV]

so if the monitor exceeds the broadcast res of 1920x1080, then I should but able to hook my cable box up to a tuner card and go to the HD ch's and get good quality, right? What would be a slightly better card?

What country are you in?

For North America there are several digital SD/HDTV tuners for over the air (ATSC) recption but for cable you would need a QAM capable tuner and that would only tune the local digital channels some of which may be HD. National cable HDTV channels are encrypted.

An HD cable box won't easily connect to a computer and certainly won't connect to your monitor which lacks HDCP decryption.

[tb582]

What country are you in?

For North America there are several digital SD/HDTV tuners for over the air (ATSC) recption but for cable you would need a QAM capable tuner and that would only tune the local digital channels some of which may be HD. National cable HDTV channels are encrypted.

An HD cable box won't easily connect to a computer and certainly won't connect to your monitor which lacks HDCP decryption.

I'm in the US, can you provide any links to the SD/HDTV tuners for the OTA ch's

[jagabo]

Hauppauge HVR series
DVICO FusionHDTV series

[edDV]

Google request turned up most of them
http://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla%3Aen-US%3Aofficial&chann...=Google+Search