[Wolves] TV card

[Kevanf1]

On 30/09/05, Alan Pope <alan.pope at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 29/09/05, Kevanf1 <kevanf1 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I was thinking more along the lines of actual picture quality.  I
> > should have made myself clearer really :-) (no pun intended).  We live
> > in a very good reception area and the picture quality on my set ttop
> > digital box is very good.  The one from the digital tv card is quite
> > poor in comparison and that's using the 'bloody' expensive super duper
> > digital aerial.  PC monitors just are not meant to show a tv picture
> > and don't I know it...
> >
>
> I have heard of crappy quality picture on DVB-T when using a PCI card
> as it picks up interference inside the PC case. This is less likely to
> occur with the external DVB-T device I linked to in my previous mail
> becuase it's USB so could be (at the end of a long USB cable) some
> distance from any interference-generating computer equipment.
>
> Cheers,
> Al.
>

Ah, very good point, Al.  I have to admit that I haven't tried the USB
versions.  Are they controllable via a remote at all?  If so this
might be a godd way of setting up a media server.  Run the cable to a
PC in another room therefore sorting out the noise problem.


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