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TV Tuner card - More than 125 channels?

TV Tuner card - More than 125 channels?

Postby thebigmonkey » Fri Jul 02, 2004 12:21 am

Please help me out!
I am looking to install a TV tuner card that is capeable of receiving more than 125 channels.
My current card, a Hauppauge WinTV PCI can't do the job.

Any suggestions?
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Re: TV Tuner card - More than 125 channels?

Postby SCgone » Fri Jul 02, 2004 1:18 am

thebigmonkey wrote:Please help me out!
I am looking to install a TV tuner card that is capeable of receiving more than 125 channels.
My current card, a Hauppauge WinTV PCI can't do the job.

Any suggestions?


Hmm, are you sure the channels over 99 aren't digital? Here, everything over 99 is digital and I'm not sure any TV card will get digital.
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Postby thebigmonkey » Fri Jul 02, 2004 1:37 am

Good question....
After checking...99 is it...

Any idea on how to get the digital channels?

I'm trying to stream my cable across my wireless network.
If I can't get the digital channels involved then where is the advantage over the cable tuner and a DVD player?
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Postby SCgone » Fri Jul 02, 2004 1:48 am

thebigmonkey wrote:Good question....
After checking...99 is it...

Any idea on how to get the digital channels?

I'm trying to stream my cable across my wireless network.
If I can't get the digital channels involved then where is the advantage over the cable tuner and a DVD player?


Hauppauge does make a line of digital TV cards. The one below goes for $149. You can also go the Tivo route, which hooks up to a network I believe, but I guess that would have to be hardwired.

http://registration.hauppauge.com/webst ... #pvr250mce
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Postby xi0n » Fri Jul 02, 2004 8:05 am

Quote from hauppauge.com:

WinTV-PVR-250MCE includes:
  • 125 channel cable ready TV tuner
  • Composite/s-video plus stereo audio inputs to connect to VCR,
  • camcorders or set top boxes
  • High quality MPEG1/MPEG2 video and audio encoder based on the Conexant -416 MPEG encoder
  • dbx-TV stereo decoder (Nicam stereo decoder in Europe)
  • FM radio receiver
  • The WinTV-PVR-250MCE's TV tuner and S-Video/composite video inputs are for either PAL or NTSC.



It does the trick.
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