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PostPosted: Mon Nov 22, 04 12:36 pm    Post subject: watching TV on a PC Reply with quote
    

how does one go about doing this?

can you watch cable / sky telly on a PC without subscriptions?

can a I.T. fool like me do this?

tahir



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PostPosted: Mon Nov 22, 04 12:41 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Not Sky satellite, but there are services that I believe you can receive on a PC TV card

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PostPosted: Mon Nov 22, 04 12:42 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

It can be a little complicated

You need a TV card, and the appropriate input to it. I got a SCART to UHF adapter for Elfy and used a video sender from the VCR.

You could use a second sky box and sunbscription as an alternative.

jema

tahir



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PostPosted: Mon Nov 22, 04 12:43 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Have you already got Sky?

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PostPosted: Mon Nov 22, 04 12:48 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

won't pay for sky cos of Murdoch

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PostPosted: Mon Nov 22, 04 12:49 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Then the answer is no

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PostPosted: Mon Nov 22, 04 12:50 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

shame - just wondered if you could get it via broadband

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PostPosted: Mon Nov 22, 04 7:53 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Be nice, wouldn't it, like radio on demand!

One day!

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PostPosted: Mon Nov 22, 04 7:55 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Anonymous wrote:
shame - just wondered if you could get it via broadband


I figure you need about an 8mbs broadband connection for quality TV on demand. This type of connection is making its first inroads in the UK, but is a long way from being common.

jema

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PostPosted: Mon Nov 22, 04 8:00 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

From memory that would be a T3 connection to the home. Bit expensive, about £28K a year last time I ordered one.

Sky is about £300 a year I think

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PostPosted: Tue Nov 23, 04 11:48 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

mrutty wrote:
From memory that would be a T3 connection to the home. Bit expensive, about £28K a year last time I ordered one.

Sky is about £300 a year I think


I just hate paying cash to that all powerful Aussie

I've got a chipped cable box that allows me to watch pretty much everything for next to nothing as it is

tahir



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PostPosted: Tue Nov 23, 04 11:58 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Naughty naughty

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PostPosted: Tue Nov 23, 04 12:14 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

There was an advert the other night from currys or comet. A PC with digicard and tv out. It even uses the hard drive for recording live TV.

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PostPosted: Tue Nov 23, 04 12:19 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Jonnyboy wrote:
There was an advert the other night from currys or comet. A PC with digicard and tv out. It even uses the hard drive for recording live TV.


That is the future of things, it odes need to be a digicard, not just a TV card. Main problem afaik with "media" pcs, is that they are based on windoze and hence terminally flaky as a domestic appliance.

jema

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PostPosted: Thu Dec 16, 04 12:34 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

how do these things work then?

Can I put a digicard in my pc and start to use it as an addition telly and save space?

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