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Posted: Mon Nov 22, 04 12:36 pm Post subject: watching TV on a PC
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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Posted: Mon Nov 22, 04 12:41 pm Post subject:
Not Sky satellite, but there are services that I believe you can receive on a PC TV card

jema
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Posted: Mon Nov 22, 04 12:42 pm Post subject:
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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Posted: Mon Nov 22, 04 12:43 pm Post subject:
Have you already got Sky?

Guest

Posted: Mon Nov 22, 04 12:48 pm Post subject:
won't pay for sky cos of Murdoch

mrutty

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Posted: Mon Nov 22, 04 12:49 pm Post subject:
Then the answer is no

Guest

Posted: Mon Nov 22, 04 12:50 pm Post subject:
shame - just wondered if you could get it via broadband

wellington womble

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Posted: Mon Nov 22, 04 7:53 pm Post subject:
Be nice, wouldn't it, like radio on demand! One day!

jema
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Posted: Mon Nov 22, 04 7:55 pm Post subject:

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

mrutty

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Posted: Mon Nov 22, 04 8:00 pm Post subject:
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

Dead Bloke

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Posted: Tue Nov 23, 04 11:48 am Post subject:

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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Posted: Tue Nov 23, 04 11:58 am Post subject:
Naughty naughty

Jonnyboy

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Posted: Tue Nov 23, 04 12:14 pm Post subject:
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.

jema
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Posted: Tue Nov 23, 04 12:19 pm Post subject:

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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Posted: Thu Dec 16, 04 12:34 pm Post subject:
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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