[Wolves] TV card

[Alan Pope]

On 30/09/05, Kevanf1 <kevanf1 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.
>

Well, the remote controlling isn't really anything to do with the TV
card per-se. You generally use something like lirc [1] to accept input
from an infra red remote control. What you do with that information
(start recording, change channel) is up to you.

Cheers,
Al.

[1] http://www.lirc.org/