TV Tuner and sattellite

[DaTT]

Is it possible to plug the Sat cable into a TV Tuner card and record on your hard drive in real time?

 

[CTrainBEB]

good question, i'd like to see it answered

 

[BlueWeasel]

If the tuner card has input (ie, S-video) supported by the satellite receiver, then I don't see why it wouldn't work.

 

[iamskew]

No. Well, not directly at least. If your sat set top box has a coaxial out, then with certain cards you can run the coax from your stb into your tuner card and then it might record.

 

[CalvinHobbs]

ya you can...did it...amke sure the cable connecting your deocoder to your tv tuner is a good one to avoid loss of signals...i was using WinDVR to record...you can even record directly into DivX if fancy it...minimum a 1GHZ pc needed

 

[DrCool]

short answer - YES!

go here for MANY more details!
http://forums.freytechnologies.com/forums/

 

[DaTT]

Thanx all. I'll give it a try.

 

[Philippine Mango]

Originally posted by: calvinHobbs
ya you can...did it...amke sure the cable connecting your deocoder to your tv tuner is a good one to avoid loss of signals...i was using WinDVR to record...you can even record directly into DivX if fancy it...minimum a 1GHZ pc needed

You can record 352X240 resolution video and higher with a PII 450MHZ system... 1GHZ is overkill and doesn't provide any more then a 450MHZ system. Maybe you don't have a hardware decoder?