hey guys n gals,
what with some form of football tournament on soon, ive been thinking of getting a USB Freeview tuner for my laptop.
i want it to have its own arial, and a remote if poss
any models that can be recommended??
thanking you in advance
hey guys n gals,
what with some form of football tournament on soon, ive been thinking of getting a USB Freeview tuner for my laptop.
i want it to have its own arial, and a remote if poss
any models that can be recommended??
thanking you in advance
The Karl Pilkington of Hexus
I've got the MSI Megasky 580 and it's great, comes with a remote and is Media Centre compliant. The aerial that comes with all of these USB tuners are absolutely useless unless you're in a very strong signal area. I live about 10 miles from my local transmitter and can only pick up about a quarter of the channels but even they continually break up. Connected to my roof aerial though it's rock solid.
Thanks for responding so quickly![]()
an excellent plan with only 2 tiny drawbacks...Originally Posted by killie99
A) my workplace doesnt have an external arial
and
B) my workplace doesnt have an external arial![]()
hence why i would like an arial to be included.
The Karl Pilkington of Hexus
Yep, you really need an external ariel to make the most of these things.
I've got the Leadtek Winfast DTV one - great piece of hardware for recording from a good ariel, but the software can be a bit buggy at times. However, I'm currently using it with a below-spec cpu (XP1700+), and they do use up quite a lot of processor power to encode, so, that might be causing the odd problem that I've had, and not the software.
Haven't tried the rubber-sucker supplied ariel, so can't comment on that one.
Recording quality from an external ariel is superb, however.
The Leadtek one has a good software bundle - lite versions of Ulead Videostudio 9/DVD Movie Factory 4/Cool 3D/Muvee 3/PowerDVD.
S.
Well my TV card (when it works) certianly pounds the CPU when its recording.
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thanks for all the help
i'm gonna go for the MSI jobbie... its less than £30 so i cant go wrong really (i hope)
The Karl Pilkington of Hexus
A friend of mine had the same problem with not having a fixed aerial at his work - he tried wiring it to his metal filing cabinet and it worked fineYMMV!
I see, said the blind man to his deaf wife as he stuck his wooden leg out of the door to feel if it was raining.
funny you should say that...
the outside of our building is metal, and the msi ariel has a magnet on it...
just shoved it as high as we could - got a load of channels
The Karl Pilkington of Hexus
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