darran
Dec 20 2006, 02:31 PM
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This is urgent, does anyone know how I can watch television on my PC without buying a TV Tuner card?
I hope to get your answer ASAP because I desperately want to watch a football match which is going to be shown in about 5 hours but my television has somehow broken down and I am pissed with the company for refusing to bring the new television in. Bunch of no-brain idiots who promised to deliver the television today only to give a stupid excuse of the vehicle breaking down. |
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Kubi
Dec 20 2006, 02:39 PM
I know of a TV website. I'm not sure if they have football though. I'll have to check. unfortunetly I'm at school and don't have the link. I'll post it up when I get home.
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darran
Dec 20 2006, 02:53 PM
I am afraid you are missing the point. I don't want to watch television through streaming, I want the content from my cable provider. I want to know how I can connect the cable set top box to watch it in my PC. I have seen people do it but I have no idea how to do it.
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rsf
Dec 20 2006, 08:12 PM
You need a tv tuner card. That's it's purpose. Either: -Find a site you can stream it from -Go over to a friend who wants to watch it too -Go to a sports bar or restaurant to watch it
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BuffaloHELP
Dec 20 2006, 10:55 PM
A capture card is also another alternative. But whatever it may require, you would definitely need some sort of input device that can decrypt the cable signal and translate it to video signal. Any cpature card + VCR = TV on your computer monitor. VCR has built-in television signal decryptor that will act like the TV tuning card.
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darran
Dec 21 2006, 04:37 AM
So lets say I have a cable set top box, what I need to watch the content on my PC is simply to install a tv tuner card into my PC? But the cable linking from my set top box, how do I connect it to my PC? Do I need anything else to link it up because from what I saw yesterday, there is any socket on the PC where I can connect the set top box to.
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BuffaloHELP
Dec 21 2006, 08:16 AM
Okay, so as long as you are willing to install a TV tuner card to your computer system everything should be very simple. So a typical TV tuner card (internal) looks something like this  Just as you guessed it, there are external USB tuner cards available. This is your choice. As you can see, there's a standard coax (where you thread RG-5 or RG-6 standard coax cable) just like you would hook up your cable box, box to your TV etc. That's all you have to do. Treat the connection to the TV tuner card like you would hook up a VCR to your television. The software included with the tuner card should do the rest. However, if your cable system is something like a satellite system where you need the cable box to decode the satellite scrambled signal, you would need the satellite box before connecting to the TV tuner card. i.e. -------[satellite box]-------[TV tuner card]-->PC
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darran
Dec 21 2006, 08:54 AM
From what I understand, I install this TV Tuner in my PC but which slot do I slot this TV Tuner card into? Is this the kind of tuner I should be getting? http://hardwarezone.com.sg/priceguide/info...11&id=16710http://hardwarezone.com.sg/priceguide/info...111&id=8255Lets say I get an internal TV Tuner, but where do I connect the cable from set top box to my PC. If the TV Tuner is installed inside the CPU, how can I connect it without opening my CPU? Just need these clarification, thanks 
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kdr_98
Dec 22 2006, 03:27 PM
First of all are you meaning Analogue Television or Digital Television ? For Analogue Television you need a TV card in your PC , there is no other way. For Digital Television , you need to connect your PC on the place you have a MPEG stream on an ehternet interface. At my place it's easy since I have IP television over DSL. Then you just have to connect your PC in the same VLAN as your setup box. Use a sniffer to detect to the IP adress and TCP port of the stream. And then use VLC to make the stream visible, then you have aslo some extra features like time-shifting, recording a stream, .... . If you are using Satelite you als have to use a satelite card for the conversion to IP pakkets. All of this works if the stream is not encoded, but most operator have their streams encoded in Europe.
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Galahad
Dec 23 2006, 04:04 AM
If you decide to buy the TV tuner card, you insert it in any free PCI slot you have in your PC... You don't actually do anything with your CPU... CPU is your Central Processing Unit, a small chip, burried beneath a big cooler I think you meant to say PC Case... That's what you need to open... Anyways, whe you connect the card, and install it's drivers, you connect the cable you would connect to your TV, in the appropriate socket on the back of the card... In essence, same cable that goes into your TV, goes into your TV tuner card... Simple as that... TV tuner card works exactly like a tuner component inside a TV... It decodes the signal it gets from the cable/antenna, and feeds it to the computer, where you can watch the program... Also, do you have digital, or analogue cable signal? If it's digital, you may need to have some sort of device, that will decode the signal, then re-transmit it as analogue, and that signal, you plug into your TV tuner card... I hope this wasn't too confusing... I actualy don't have a TV, I use TV tuner card, and watch all TV program on it... Plus, it hase a FM tuner, so I can listen to radio as well...
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darran
Jan 3 2007, 06:12 AM
In that case, which brand would you recommend? Is RAID a brand of a TV Tuner? I remember reading about this technology being used in today's PC. Are we talking about the same thing? USB looks to be the better option after reading what you have said
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brandon10092
Jan 2 2007, 03:54 AM
I would not go with a TV Tuner unless the directions are easy to understand when you are going to install it and it's a brand you're positive you can trust. I got a TV Tuner for Christmas and it's called WIN-TV or something along those lines. It's off-brand and I only got it because I was going to by a RAID TV Tuner for around $100, but they were all sold out so I got its "rival." Not a good idea. I went to install it, and the hassle was I had to take out my unused modem since my PCI ports were all taken. After that, I install it and as I'm reading the directions I'm basically clueless on installing it. I get the drivers and software installed on my computer, but the troubles begin when I try tuning the c ard. THe instructions vaguely show how to do this and doesn't go into detail if you have a satelite box or something other than regular cable, which is my case.
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darran
Dec 31 2006, 04:15 AM
I think the USB TV Tuner is probably the thing I want, more expensive but definitely more easier to install and with it, I could probably do it with a laptop too. Thanks for all the replies in this thread, I will most probably get this USB TV Tuner when I get my next month's pay
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BuffaloHELP
Dec 30 2006, 01:51 AM
Internal PCI card was used as a demonstration on my last reply. If you prefer you can go with the external USB TV tuner device. USB TV tuner has some advantages compare to internal PCI card--it is easier to install, it is swapable among other computers and it is just as effective as the internal tuner card. The only disadvantage at this time is the price. The USB TV tuner, on an average, runs higher than the PCI card. But then again, what's few extra bills when you can use it for both desktop and laptop? The difference may not be much. USB TV tuner does not require for you to open your CPU or anything that you're not ready to do at this time. So go with the USB TV tuner. It will be installed in a snap.
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darran
Dec 29 2006, 06:08 AM
Which type of hardware would you recommend? A PCI or a USB? Sure a USB would be much more convenient, I can easily stuff it into the port and everything would be much simpler instead of fixing and deal with the insides of the computer which I admit that I am a big failure in that department. I tried to create a DIY PC making use of old monitors, motherboards and CPUs, but it couldn't even work. So this just proves I am not much of a hardware person and will never be. If you ask me anything software-related, I might not feel so loss but the mere mention of the hardware terms which I have seen displayed in this thread, it is something which I am totally knocked away by. From this thread, I have learnt that without a TV Tuner, there is no way I can watch TV on my computer? Am I right to say this? There are external and internal TV Tuners, and everything should just come into place once I get the TV Tuner. My last doubt I have after reading the wonderful response you guys have given in this thread, if I buy a USB TV Tuner, is it any possible that I would be able to plug it into my Laptop and watch TV there instead of a static desktop? Instead of moving the set top box to suit the PC, I was thinking why not move the PC near to the set top box! Last of all, I appreciate the feedback and replies I got from you guys, you have really given a huge helping hand to a hardware noob like myself
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