TV on PC.........

[jonnie comet]

Hi

I am looking for opinions on getting TV through my PC.

Do I go down the TV card , or the www.skytvonpc.co.uk route ?

Has any one used these on line tv companies ? It seems too good to be true ( and so usually is ) £ 4.99 for sky access through your PC, there has got to be a catch.

Thanks for your opinions

 

[trotsky]

jc

I lost my spare portable TV upstairs to a good cause and ventured £60 on a Hauppauge Win Nova-T. It gives me all the Freeview channels happily, I can snapshot images to disk and I can record to hard disk too. They do external versions too.

It ran happily on my old Pentium III 1GHz machine and is even happier now I have an Athlon 64 system. SOme applications upset it but usually only other video based apps when everything gets confused...

This am me watching Crufts while replying to your message

The two 19 inch monitors help too but it ran happily on a single monitor on the old machine. The black blob on a cable under the screen is the IR receiver for the remote control.

 

[jonnie comet]

trotsky

Thanks for the reply. I was sort of going down this route anyway, and you have confirmed what I was thinking.

Cheers