I just bought a TV Tuner device that connects via USB 2.0 and so far this has been a terrible purchase. When installing the drivers for the TV tuner box my laptop would go to a blue screen with something about memory dumps and then would reboot itself. I finally got the darn drivers loaded and now the software (WinDVR 3) locks my computer up tighter than a ViseGrip. My machine is a couple of years old but more than meets the manufacturers requirement. I run an AMD Athlon 1.8 GHz/ 512 MB... Any suggestions on another TV tuner application that I can use besides the WinDVR?
2006-10-26 17:26:27 · 4 answers · asked by atheist_2_u 4 in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Add-ons
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I've used this tuner for ~ 1 month and totaly satisfied with it. Some comments: 1. During installation use this manual: http://www.sabrent.com/drivers/TV-USB20%20Manual.zip (important!) 2. When setting up WinDVR make sure you chose ''cable'', if you have a cable, not ''antenna'', which is default. Otherwise you'll be able to get some channels, but not all of them. Also make sure that encoding is NTSC_M (NTSC will also do).
2006-10-26 17:39:28 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
There's no question about it, TV (overlay) cards have come a long way. The USB design also may make it more limited than a traditional PCI TV Tuner card. Some older ATI TV cards required a "VGA Feature connector" or "AMC" ribbon cable that ran between the Video Card and the TV Card.
♠Today you can purchase a PCI TV Wonder card or similar that delievers the latest in TV Capture.
Virtualdub is a program that accepts video from a capture card.
2006-10-26 17:56:04 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
confident you do, in certainty once you purchase the tuner card, the keep is meant to by way of regulation take your place handle to be sure which you do carry a television License at that premises (or deliver a license officer around to be sure in case you dont!). Dont get caught out, its a hefty effective while in comparison with the fee of the license.
2016-12-08 22:16:21 · answer #3 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
are you running media center or xp and some usb devices require the drivers installed before the device is installed and some laptops just dont run programs good
2006-10-26 19:38:34 · answer #4 · answered by Douglas G 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋