has anyone here done this? I recently bought one of the cards from ebay and am trying it out, works really well except that i cant use my digital audio and my surround sound.
I used to do it, when my parents said I couldn't have a tv in my room! lol
That reminds me... I gotta get my cards back so I can do it again!
I have a cheap CompUSA brand TV tuner card that works pretty well for being a $50 piece. I broke the end of the coaxial cable so I've been too lazy to fix it and start using it again.
I did that so long ago its rediculous. I think the card costed $50, oh I dont know, 10 or more years ago?. It came for free with a $50 web cam actually... It was a long time ago I would have been 9 or 10 at the time. still works like new.
Back when I first moved out on my own I bought an ATI All-In-Wonder Pro for my computer. It had a mighty 4MB frame buffer (maybe I should post this in that old Tandy thread) and I paired it with a 12MB 3DFX Voodoo II 3D card. I would sit up all night in front of that thing with mIRC taking up half the screen, a TV window taking up a quarter (with Duckman showing on it, usually), and some other random program taking up the remaining quarter. All this was squeezed onto a 14" CRT @1024X768
All that being a roundabout way of saying Yes, I've done it, and I liked it, but having a dedicated TV ended up being better
If you do it dont go the ATI All-In-Wonder route. The TV on mine (AIW 9600) worked until I re-booted my machine and I've never been able to get it going since. One of the drivers caused windows not to boot up and I had to start up in safe mode and use system restore.
If I was to do it all over again I'd get one of the separate TV pci cards. I'll probably just do what ThunderChicken said and just get a TV for the "office".
I'm running a Lifeview FlyTV based off brand card. Works great. One nice thing is, if I'm stuck at ARCH hall late with my laptop, and I know there is something I want to watch on, I can set up my tv on my desktop like a webcam, and watch tv at ARCH hall over the internet. :) I can't change channels (I haven't tried setting up a remote connection to it) but it's better than nothing. I'm planning on doing this tonight for the BCS chapionship game (go Ohio State) while I get some work done.
I love you!!! Go State!
I have an ATI ALL-IN-WONDER x800 xt 256ddr2 card. I love it.
I bought a pcHDTV card for $120 that gives you HDTV as well as the standard buttstuffog TV.
The card works good, especially since it added HDTV (there are about 4 new on the air channels) to the house.
It was a struggle since I've never messed with Linux before, but worth the effort to then install MythTV, a free version similar to TIVO that skips commercials, as well as records programs automatically. It also gives you a free on-screen TV guide.
http://www.tomshardware.com/2006/09/08/the_mythtv_convergence/ (http://"http://www.tomshardware.com/2006/09/08/the_mythtv_convergence/")
http://mythtv.org/ (http://"http://mythtv.org/")