Tv tuners for pc to work with digital satellite???

[Duvie]

Does anybody know of a brand or if it exists.....

I sold my tv wonder which I loved cause I am switching to digital satellite cable in a week and it will become useless...at least I thought...The TV wonder is for an analog signal, right? that is converted to digital by digital digitizer so that it can be viewed on monitor?

Any help would be appreciated....Great for football season with the games and my fanatsy football team...

 

[Soran]

What do you mean digital Satellite? HDTV? DirectTv? MOst of the boxes for the Sattelite TV have composite outputs. So if your TV-card has S-video or composit inputs you should be able to to receive a cleaner signal. However, I don't think current tuner cards will offer you higher resolution if thats what your looking for. You will have a cleaner signal, and should be able to capture at a higher resolution, but as far as displaying at a higher resolution, I think you'd have to really look at the specs closely. I know Hauppauge makes good cards, I would suggest starting there first.

http://www.hauppauge.com/html/products.htm#digital

 

[unsped]

digital cable is still converted to analog before its displayed, i think only hdtv is capable of accepting a digital signal.

the main difference is that it converts at the box, instead of sending an analog signal all the way from the cable company (which runs into a lot of interference etc.. ie. sh1ttier picture) plus with digital cable they have thrown in some more bells and whistlers since im assuming there bandwidth increases when not worrying about conflicting analog signals.

the tv wonder will work like your tv will, it will be able to be used on analog and digital cable ... however it won't be able to change the channel on the digital cable, then again neither will your tv (thats why they have the digital box).

as for a complete digital solution ... I highly doubt it exists, I don't think it works that way.

 

[Soran]

Ya.. now that I reread your note.. I agree with Mr Big. The nature of Sattelite TV is not to give the user control of a digital signal. Unfortunately analog is the only solution we have thusfar. Unless there's something new on the Horizon.

 

[masterc]

The Studios etc. don't want us to be able to capture and save true digital feeds... coping stuff etc. just like DVD's. As far as I know all the signals are converted to analog before they are outputed.

 

[masterc]

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