Path: chuka.playstation.co.uk!argonet.co.uk!argbc08 From: R Fred Williams Newsgroups: scee.yaroze.freetalk.english,scea.yaroze.freetalk Subject: Re: TV Turner cards Date: Sat, 19 Sep 1998 21:10:12 BST Organization: ArgoNet, but does not reflect its views Lines: 41 Distribution: world Message-ID: References: <6tt39f$efu8@chuka.playstation.co.uk> Reply-To: R Fred Williams NNTP-Posting-Host: userm289.uk.uudial.com X-Newsreader: NewsAgent 0.84 for RISC OS X-NNTP-Poster: NewsHound v1.37ß2 Xref: chuka.playstation.co.uk scee.yaroze.freetalk.english:2400 scea.yaroze.freetalk:968 In article <6tt39f$efu8@chuka.playstation.co.uk>, "Robert Shand" wrote: > I'm thinking of buying a TV tuner card for my PC, the Hauppauge Win/TV > Primio, has anyone used this sort of card for NY development. Does > everything work Ok? or are there some pitfalls I should be aware of. > I'm hopefully buying it later today, so I would be *really* grateful if > you either mail me or post a reply, before about 3:30 ish Hmmm, ok, a bit late, but here're my thoughts anyway... First up, I dunno about this specific card, or indeed about PC TV tuners in general. As those who read my readme's (!) know, I run my Yaroze off a PC card on an Acorn machine (& am consequently still reeling from Thursday's announcement: Tis official - the British home computer industry is no more), and (to get back on-topic) an Irlam instruments TV tuner card for said platform, which works just fine. So: Make sure you can get a COLOUR picture from NTSC as well as PAL. (In my case, I was able to get a patch from the board suppliers, and can get colour in both PAL/NTSC from the composite input as well as the UHF, which helps image quality no end). And secondly, be aware of the differences between a PC tuner display and a "real" one: TV Tuners generally display a different clipped rectangle of overscan to a real TV, and, of course, you don't see the interlace. Check stuff on a real TV at least once before release ;) However, the deskspace & eyestrain savings are, IMHO, well worth the expense. ttfn Fred -- R. Fred Williams PushyII... for the Acorn http://www.argonet.co.uk/users/rfredw & PSX Yaroze http://www.netyaroze-europe.com/~RFREDW