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[thedavid]

So I got one of these for christmas, since the office has no TV and because of the layout of the house, I can't have it any other way really:

http://ati.com/products/tvwonderve/index.html

I just installed it, and it's soooo cool - watching History Channel and browsing WHT. This is my favorite xmas present, bar none. It's been out for a long while - how many of you have been watching tv in this sublime way forever? Have I been missing out the entire time?

-David

PS - I know the spelling on the topic is wrong

[Artashes]

Very nice gift, David. And not expensive at all! Wow.

How's the resolution?
You just plug in the cable into this?
If you're on cable modem, can the two work together?

Best,

[Cirtex]

You bought it for $49.00 ?

Can you send us some Screenshots maybe.

[Dan L]

Looks very cool, does it have picture-in-picture?

[thedavid]

Yeah, I went and picked up a splitter (not a cheapie RadioShack one, since the cable modem needs a good clean signal). The resolution looks pretty much like what you'd see if you were playing a DVD on the PC - pretty good for non-full-screen, but when you blow it up (at least here) it turns the nice flatscreen 19 incher into a cheapie tv lookin thing But yeah, just popped the pci card in, installed some drivers, and hooked the cable into it and all was good.

I didn't buy it - was a gift, though the gift receipt says $39... Very worth it IMHO

Can't do screenshots, the card uses directx video overlays - screenshots look like a black box

[thedavid]

Originally posted by DanX
Looks very cool, does it have picture-in-picture?

No PIP as it's only 1 tuner, but it does have the ability to save the video to mpeg2/1/wmv and comes with a nice tv channel listing service - so you can program the pc like a vcr/tivo.

Wonder how the linux support is for this card.. Hmm...

-David

[Dan L]

Originally posted by thedavid
No PIP as it's only 1 tuner, but it does have the ability to save the video to mpeg2/1/wmv and comes with a nice tv channel listing service - so you can program the pc like a vcr/tivo.

Wonder how the linux support is for this card.. Hmm...

-David

Depends on the distro.. I still can't get XWindows to run on Debian.

But being able to store movies to your harddrive will be neat, no more annoying VHS tapes lying around!

[thedavid]

Exactly - I think I'm going to invest in a dvdr next for more archival as well, but we'll see.

Also, looks like I could get it to work with freevo:
http://freevo.sourceforge.net/

-David

[RealityHost]

get a pioneer 105 david you wont be disopointed

[JYC]

history channel

[thedavid]

Originally posted by JYC
history channel

Heck yeah - there was a cool 'history of motorcycles' thing on...



-David

[thedavid]

Ok, since I can't do screencaps...

Here's an mpeg1 capture of some video:

http://thedavid.org/Textiles.mpg

I can't get the sound working with mpeg2, and haven't tried the other codecs (divx, et al..)

Looks pretty good for (compressed) tv, I think anyway.

-David