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TV card or PVR card?
Hi, I'm looking to build a pc to hook up to my cable tv box to record programmes and do the timeshift thing, but i'm not sure if i should get a tv card or a pvr card, coz i'm not sure if the arial on the roof of my house works or if it can pick up digital freeview, so this would make a tv card useless right??
Also i would like to connect my camcorder and put all my old tapes onto a HDD/DVD.
So would it be better to get a PVR card?
Hope this make sence and if it does can anyone recommend a product?
Oh i'm gonna be using windows vista ultimate so i can use all the media functions and i want to get the microsoft IR remote control.
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Re: TV card or PVR card?
Any card can be used for PVR functions, it's just the bundled software that is different between PVR and non-PVR cards. Although Hauppauge cards are a little different. Their PVR series are hardware MPEG-2 encoders and the PVR-350 also has TV output on the card. They are pretty good quality and widely supported.
I don't know if Vista MCE has the same limitation as in XP, but you can have only digital or analogue cards, not both.
If you can't get a TV reception, i don't see much point in getting a TV card. For transfering footage onto your PC, have a look at capture cards such as these:
http://www.scan.co.uk/Products/Produ...=276&OrderBy=3
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Re: TV card or PVR card?
ah, cheers m8, i think then i'll get the Hauppauge WinTV PVR 150MCE OEM, and get the Microsoft Windows Media Center Hardware Kit V2 (Remote/Receiver) OEM to go with it, then i'll get something else like the Pinnacle DAZZLE DVD Recorder - External USB 2.0 Device later, so then i can use the DAZZLE on more than 1 computers.