2005-11-01, 04:45 PM
Having been a member of this group for a couple of weeks i'm still a bit confused as to what kit I need to set up a GBPVR system.
My situation is that I am in the UK and currently get my TV via Freeview which I run via a Humax PVR/set top box into my TV via a scart lead.
I've got a 1 year old PC running a 2500+ AMD Athlon processor in my lounge and have just ordered a dual dvi head graphics card which should allow me to connect bioth my LCD TV and my PC's monitor to my PC.
What I want to achieve is better picture quality on my LCD TV combined with a capability of both watching and recording digital TV at the same time.
From what I can gather on this forum, the Hauppage 150 PVR cards seem the most preferred soluition, but these are analogue cards. As far as I can see I need a digital card but I have also gathered that you get a much better picture with a hardware based rather than software based decoder. As far as I can see, most of the digital cards which are compatible with GBPVR offer software based decoding.
So what is the best/most reasonably priced hardware based digital card i can buy??
Sorry for the newbie ness of the question, but any heklp gratefully received.
Wade
My situation is that I am in the UK and currently get my TV via Freeview which I run via a Humax PVR/set top box into my TV via a scart lead.
I've got a 1 year old PC running a 2500+ AMD Athlon processor in my lounge and have just ordered a dual dvi head graphics card which should allow me to connect bioth my LCD TV and my PC's monitor to my PC.
What I want to achieve is better picture quality on my LCD TV combined with a capability of both watching and recording digital TV at the same time.
From what I can gather on this forum, the Hauppage 150 PVR cards seem the most preferred soluition, but these are analogue cards. As far as I can see I need a digital card but I have also gathered that you get a much better picture with a hardware based rather than software based decoder. As far as I can see, most of the digital cards which are compatible with GBPVR offer software based decoding.
So what is the best/most reasonably priced hardware based digital card i can buy??
Sorry for the newbie ness of the question, but any heklp gratefully received.
Wade