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TV Tuner and Dual-monitor setup..is it possible?

murphy55d

murphy55d

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I've just gotten into the dual monitor thing, and this got me thinking about using 1 of the monitors just as a "TV". I have a 19" Planar and a 17" Samsung both hooked into my GF4 Ti4200.

Which, if any, TV tuners would allow me to have the TV playing on one monitor, and my other regular Windows stuff going on in the other? Can I use any TV tuner, or does it need to specifically support this? I'm not real knowledgable about this dual setup yet, so if I'm asking a stupid question, bear with me, and maybe recommend a basic one which I can get.

TY in advance.
 
Any TV tuner should be just fine. Although I would HIGHLY recommend AGAINST ATI's PCI TV tuners. Their driver support for them is absolutely garbage. They are 1 year 3 months and counting between relases and have yet to release a stable windows xp driver that doesn't pooch your system STAY AWAY! However any other brand should be fine. Functions like TV desktop obviously won't work on dual desktop but you can just drag the TV over to the second display while it is minimixed and then let it take focus on the display. It will be full screen.
 
You can do it with the Nvidia GeForce 4 Ti series........However, you can only set NView to standard or clone..............not Horizontal or Vertical spanning.......
After you do set it to standard or clone view...click on overlay control and set which monitor you want to display the TV when you want to see it...
 
Ok I used to have this setup.

First of all the Matrox 450 did no have overlay support so that didn't work. Secondly Nvidia has odd overlay support for secondary monitor on the same card. So maybe you will only be able to use the TV on one screen or the other. However, in my experience XP automatically switches the overlay stuff for you and there is just a slight pause when you drag between monitors.

I agree with Pink0 ATI's TV cards are absolutely worthless, and the only way to make it halfway bearable (disregaruding the constant crashing) is using Cyberlink's PowerVCR instead of ATI's worthless software.
 
I have a Geforce 4 video card w/ Leadtek TV2000XP under Windows XP. I can run w/ Dualview the tv tuner software on either screen. However if I maximizing it to full screen on the second monitor, it blows up full screen on the primary display. I can stretch it however on the second screen and it displays just fine. You can also do clone mode if prefer.
 
I believe that a TV tuner should be able to play back TV in a window, such as any other program on your PC. If your video card is capable of it (which I doubt), you'll be able to run the displays in independent mode and more easily use the whole secondary monitor as a TV.

On a nother note, at this point I have to strongly recommend against the Leadtek WINFAST TV2000XP, I got one for my girlfriend and it's been hell. It seems to me that the drivers and software are very buggy, though I haven't had much time to play around and troubleshoot, look for alternatives, etc.

 
I have a Matrox G550 DualHead and an ATI Xpert 98. Three monitors total. My TV tuner is an ATI TV Wonder VE.

Usually you have to have the TV window open on the primary screen, but for some reason I am able to have it fully functional on the monitor that is powered by the Xpert 98 (maybe because it's an ATI card?). I don't have any gripes about the TV tuner or the software.
 
Originally posted by: AmdInside
I have a Geforce 4 video card w/ Leadtek TV2000XP under Windows XP. I can run w/ Dualview the tv tuner software on either screen. However if I maximizing it to full screen on the second monitor, it blows up full screen on the primary display. I can stretch it however on the second screen and it displays just fine. You can also do clone mode if prefer.
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Yeah..............what he said. I have the same TV tuner but with two vid cards and it works great.

Mark
 
Usually you have to have the TV window open on the primary screen, but for some reason I am able to have it fully functional on the monitor that is powered by the Xpert 98 (maybe because it's an ATI card?). I don't have any gripes about the TV tuner or the software.
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That is because Matrox doesn't have overlay support. How crazy is that?! The Xpert has overlay support and thats why it works there.
 
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