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Originally Posted by dilligaf1701
Maplin have an external digital terrestrial reciever for computers on offer this month....
http://www.maplin.co.uk/Module.aspx?...rce=3&doy=18m7
I can't say if it's any good or anything.
Just thought I'd mention it.
I'm tempted to get one for my laptop, but I'm not sure. |
I've got the pci version of that. It's great. No probs at all. It's well supported, and has bda drivers for mce or whatever.
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Originally Posted by zinglebarb
For that money you can buy a fully functional stb,plug that into a standard tv card using handymans scart. IMO this will give you the best overall quality/features/performance over any digital tv card
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err... nonsense.
the digital>analogue>digital conversion is obviously lossy. with a dvb-t card you record the transport stream, as broadcast.
you're looking at mssive capture filesizes if you want decent quality from capping.
setting up timers to record etc on a pci card will be far easier and more functional.
You can't timeshift on a STB. You CAN do it via the pc and an analogue cap card, but again the filesizes will be horrendous.
if you intend to record stuff onto a pc, get a dvb-t card/adapter. actually using an analogue capture method will lose quality. Sure, it'll **** on a vhs deck, but go digital!