[ale] Least expensive way to watch TV on a PC ?

[Jim Kinney]

Ken,

I'm puzzled. I was at Microcenter 2 days ago. Every capture card
supports NTSC. What is new is the digital support. In order to get a
TV signal into a computer, device must be used to translate the signal
into something the computer can use. In the past, that has been a
capture card. If you know of a different way to get tv data, whether
ntsc/pal analog or new digital, into a pc, I am very interested in
learning about it as my son is doing a video project and the capture
card I have is a total pile of poo (at _least_ 10 years old and very
crappy signal quality.)

On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 2:41 PM, Ken Ratliff <forsaken at targaryen.us> wrote:
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> On Feb 12, 2009, at 12:55 PM, Jim Kinney wrote:
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>> Analog input allows video tape input. Pretty much all the capture
>> cards still have analog tuner. But the latest SB hauppaguage linux
>> support lacks analog.
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> Well, different kettle of fish, he was asking about TV, not other
> sources of media input. And it's a little more difficult (not
> impossible though) to find tuners that will do NTSC due to the
> pressure the FCC has been applying with the forced changeover to ATSC
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