How to watch TV on your PC |
| Published: August 20, 2007, 3:22 am |
| Tags: tv tuner, digitise, eyetv, dvr, vhs, cynergy, dvd |
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Feature Watching TV used to be a passive affair: you sat back and watched whatever happened to be on. These days, passivity is pass . Digital Video Recorder (DVR) set-top boxes can pick up programmes beamed out from a terrestrial transmitter, sent via satellite or pumped down a cable and save them on a hard drive so you begin watching five minutes after the show started or at any other time. You can do all this on a PC too. Getting TV on a PC is just a matter of plugging in one or more TV tuners, either as an internal add-in card or a USB clip-on, and running the control software. While your computer's screen might not be a sharp or as big as the telly in your living room, having TV on your PC does mean you can keep an eye on what's happening in the world while you're at work or at play. It's a doddle to archive recorded shows to DVD, and network connectivity means you can watch on any computer in any room in the house or anywhere outside while you are on vacation. Hardware: [ Full article ] |
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