<div dir="ltr">I only want to view the channels on my virgin subscription. Not really planning on recording anything. I just wana get rid of the tv because its taking up space. Im planning on geting a bigger monitor soon so id just the monitor as my primary tv viewing method.<br>
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<div class="gmail_quote">2008/10/15 Rob Beard <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:rob@esdelle.co.uk">rob@esdelle.co.uk</a>></span><br>
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<div class="Ih2E3d">Javad Ayaz wrote:<br>> now that you understand my setup...would an analogue tv card be better<br>> than a digital one or vice versa?<br>><br><br></div>Well it depends exactly what you want to do.<br>
<br>To give you an idea... I have put a TV card in my kids PC after their TV<br>blew up. The original idea was to install MythTV and use a Freeview TV<br>card so they could record their favourite programmes. However the<br>
actual Freeview card would only pick up a handful of channels. So in<br>the end I just put in an analogue TV card (Pinnacle PCI PC TV Card) and<br>plugged in a Freeview box. I decided to just use TV Time to view the<br>
output from the Freeview box and their games consoles on the monitor.<br><br>So I'd say if you want to just watch TV on the PC, a basic analogue card<br>will probably do the job. Just get a SCART to Phono cable so you can<br>
plug the Virgin box into the PC. You'll also probably need something<br>for audio (some boxes have stereo photo outputs on the back, others<br>don't so you'll need a 3.5mm to 2 x Photo cable and optionally a dual<br>
phono to phono coupler if you don't have audio output on the box, so you<br>can connect the audio from the phonos on the SCART cable to the line in<br>on your PC sound card). I haven't had a Virgin Media box in a while so<br>
I can't remember what outputs it has. Another alternative if your box<br>supports it is to use an S-Video cable from the Virgin box to the PC.<br>That'll give a better quality picture.<br><br>Or.... you could get a Freeview card and use MythTV. That way MythTV<br>
will be able to record the Freeview channels to your hard drive. With<br>multiple Freeview sticks/cards you'll be able to record more than one<br>channel, or watch one channel while recording another but you'll need an<br>
aerial connection as a minimum, and possibly depending on your setup, a<br>Freeview aerial on the roof (you may be lucky and get away without this).<br>
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