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Watching tv on my 2007wfp

AVP

AVP

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Ok, so I have a 2007wfp in my dorm-room here at school and I would love to watch t.v. on it, especially since it has pip. My room has a standard Coaxial RF connection and I am wondering what exactly I need in order to watch t.v. on it.

My machine has windows xp home, and is connected via dvi to the monitor. Would simply getting any pci t.v. tuner bundle work? I read Anand's review on three tuner cards, but given that I have only a standard cable connection coming in, is there any support for higher resolutions?

At home I have direct t.v. and I am assuming that I could simply plug the cable box directly into my monitor? is this correct? because if so, then I wouldn't necessarily feel like splurging a ton on a tuner that I wouldn't need at home.

Also is there any audio management in the t.v. tuner software that would allow me to route the sound to my computer speakers?

Thanks, I understand I need to do a little more research on my own here, but any direction yall could send me would be appreciated.
 
Interesting, I hadn't thought about that. But would I need a vcr with a t.v tuner and remote to switch channels and such correct? Are there any cheap dvd players that would do the trick?
 
Don't do that... the interlaced signal of the VCR would look like ass on the 2007wfp (speaking from experience). You are much better off getting a tv tuner (something hauppage or ati with a hardware mpeg encoder). They are only like 70 or 80$ and you can do pvr functions easily
 
but a tv tuner means that you have to watch tv through the computer. you wouldn't be using any of the inputs of the screen so the PIP on the monitor wouldn't work in that situation. i have the same screen and use a digital cable box. That would incur an extra cost though. the interlaced signal would look bad but you just have to watch tv from further back and if you are using the small pip window it shouldn't look that bad. you can probably get an rf demodulator if you don't have vcr, they aren't that expensive.
 
Yes you would save money and not be using the PIP, but imo, a signal from the vcr or what not would be so terrible that it would not be worth watching.
 
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