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27-02-2005, 06:38 AM
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| Advice on the buying a Tv tuner cum graphics card. I wish to buy a good TV tuner card but was adviced to go for one in-built with a graphics card for better resolution. Is it true that a T.V tuner card will not have good resolution all by itself. Please advice. I have a P-3 800 Mhz, intel 810E mobo,256 Mb RAM, 20 GB HDD. |
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01-03-2005, 10:55 AM
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| i dont believe its true.... i used to have a 5700LE personal cinema - great TV signal, just a shame the forceware software has too many bugs/niggles etc in it - and the gfx was underpowered. upgraded gfx card to 6600GT and got a nebula freeview PCI card - which looks even better than the 5700LE the moral - the TV reception will be as good its made, not due to whether its incorperated into to gfx card or not (pls anyone correct me if im wrong) |
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01-03-2005, 03:08 PM
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| actually i believe stand alone tv tuners are better. since they are specially designed to be just that tv tuners, when you buy a gfx card and tv tuners they cut corners to amke the price better. a good stand alone tv tuner costs 40-200 dollras depending if u want hd tv, special features etc... |
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01-03-2005, 03:28 PM
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| Originally Posted by ice 73 I agree. Where else would I be able to have a PCI-E based 6800GT coupled with a Freeview tuner so I can watch BBC3 when not playing WoW or playing CS. You will also get more functionality from a seperate TV card.
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01-03-2005, 05:08 PM
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| Originally Posted by myth What's to fix? Check a dictionary
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01-03-2005, 06:21 PM
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| teh aiw series is good but when i had my 9700 aiw teh video input was very fuzzy, i dont know about the latest aiw series but the 9700 wasnt good. its not at all bad but for shelling out 400+ dollars (usa) youd expect a clearer image. video soap does help but you cnat use it one live t.v. after the grainy images of my 9700 aiw i traded it in for a regular 9700 :-) |
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02-03-2005, 03:13 PM
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| O.K, say I am going to buy a T.V tuner card only, then what are the feature or specs to look out for. How are the Pinnacle and Pixelview cards. I am seeing them a lot in the market nowadays. |
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02-03-2005, 07:59 PM
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| <Hexites: Engage spin defences> From what I can gather, there is a mighty piece of technology coming into this market space VERY soon Rumour has it that this new technology will be using a very long ladder to 'up the performance bar'  With any luck, HEXUS Labs will be spilling the Beanz any day now <All clear: Lower spin defences> . "X800GT... snap it up while you still can" HEXUS ......................................August 2005 |
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02-03-2005, 10:15 PM
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| Originally Posted by firefox Unless they've upgraded it mightily in the last few months, the Pinnacle software is balls beyond belief... They just don't seem to care about it!
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