My new TV Tuner.

[CornMaster]

Here is a screenshot of some of the tricks my new TV Tuner can do. When you minimize it, it can automatically play the TV as the desktop wallpaper!!

Edit: Weird.....it only shows black?? When I paste the screenshot it actually KEPT UPDATING in PSP5!! And MS Paint. But now I can't show it's coolness.

 

[damunzy]

That sounds pretty cool CM. What model is it? and the cost? Give us the low down!

 

[CornMaster]

Well....it's an ATI TV Wonder VE.
It was $59.99.

Under XP is doesn't work well....but it picks up 15 of my 35 channels. Under 2k it picks up 13 of 35 channels, but it works perfectly.

 

[damunzy]

You have cable TV right? So why doesn't it pick up all the channels. That kinda of scares me away from getting a TV tuner.

 

[CornMaster]

Originally posted by PaleHorse76
You have cable TV right? So why doesn't it pick up all the channels. That kinda of scares me away from getting a TV tuner.

Yeah...cable TV. It should actually come though better then the TV because the TV has to go through a cable converter.....but remember...I live way out in the country...and the wiring in the house is old. Plus we get wireless cable not a real cable.

 

[GenghisK]

I have also a TV Wonder PCI. I don't even use the MMC software provided by ATI! The quality sucked! So I used a freeware TV decoder and... the quality is... Awesome! Weird isn't it. First time I can see an unofficial software working even better than the tools provided with a TV Card, programmed by the manufacturer itself!!!
Weird. Really.
Anyway then, I can even decode crypted channel for free. I know it's illeg...< blaaaam > too late. The FBI has banged my door

 

[CornMaster]

Where did you get that software?? I thought the MMC was good. Compared to the other software I tried.

I got a signal booster....someone said it helped them. But it didn't help. Although my TV reception is better then before.

 

[GenghisK]

I got them... huh, well... eh hehe The weather's quite nice today eh? What about chatting on MSN? Actually, it's for SECAM system. I'm not sure they'll work for NTSC though. Maybe, maybe not. They can support Europe PAL too. But since they were programmed by europeans people for european use... I'm not sure it will work. Anyway, we can talk about that.

 

[Crazy Eddie]

I love TV tuner cards! I can play Civ and watch TV without looking away from the monitor.
My Hauppage has one strange problem though - you can't play sol while the TV's playing, it just crashes. How weird is that?

 

[GenghisK]

Weird indeed. Well I heard that Miro cards are the best. Maybe you are just having some conflict problems?

 

[Crazy Eddie]

Dunno, it always says sol has caused a fault in the kernel. Freecell works OK (damn good job too - if I couldn't play Freecell I'd be really p*ssed)

 

[GenghisK]

Well a fault in the kernel means that the software is trying to access directly the hardware, which is forbidden by Windows. Now I don't know how you can solve this. Maybe look for a patche?

 

[Crazy Eddie]

I did d/l the latest drivers for the card but that didn't help. I just can't think why such a basic program like sol should be the only one affected - it even works OK on top of SMAC, although it's a bit psychedelic to say the least... :crazyeyes