[geeks] TV/PC Questions

[Chris Byrne]

The new all in wonders are pretty amazing. They have all the performance
of the high end 3d accellerators they are based on, plus the tv tuning
and tv capture capabilities of a dedicated TV card. Hell if you add a
pci add on tune you can do picture in picture even.

I don't know if ATI's Linux drivers cover the tv-tuner portion of their
cards. I know they DON'T provide tuning software, but there are several
packages out there that can (and do) use the all in wonders.

There are also several other commonly available brands of TV only cards.
Hauppage is the market leader (and is supported under several varieties
of UNIX) 

Chris Byrne

> -----Original Message-----
> From: geeks-bounces at sunhelp.org 
> [mailto:geeks-bounces at sunhelp.org] On Behalf Of Yuri K
> Sent: Sunday, January 26, 2003 12:59
> To: geeks at sunhelp.org
> Subject: [geeks] TV/PC Questions
> 
> 
> Hello,
> 
>   I am terribly out of date on Radio & TV things, so this is going to
>   be a lame one: are there any boards for pC platform that do a fine
>   job of tuning in, displaying and letting to record in various
>   formats the TV signal. Also, in light of 2005 mandatory move into
>   HDTV, will any of this technology work? Any open source projcts that
>   actually work?
> 
>   I have noticed an ad for some Radeon card selling at Fry's for ~$160
>   that allegedly does everything, so may be somebody has experience to
>   share... merci d'avance.
> -- 
> Best regards,
>  Yuri
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