Watching & Recording TV on PC?

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I'm considering getting a PC with a TV tuner and a DVD writer. I have a few questions.

Do you need a special TV/PC monitor to watch TV or will a PC monitor do just fine?

What would I actually plug my TV cable into on the back of my computer? Does the tuner have one of those 75 ohm connectors?

So I record a show or movie to my hard drive and then I write it onto a DVD disc. How's the quality? As good as a regular DVD Recorder hooked up to a TV can do?

For those interested, it'll be a Dell package.

 

[ZER0X]

Do you need a special TV/PC monitor to watch TV or will a PC monitor do just fine?

Your monitor is fine.

On the back of the tv tuner there will be a slot for an aerial or a video player. (Correct me if i'm wrong) when you put the tv tuner in you will be able to watch tv through your monitor.

So I record a show or movie to my hard drive and then I write it onto a DVD disc. How's the quality? As good as a regular DVD Recorder hooked up to a TV can do?

When you record the movie to your hard drive watch it and find out how good the quality is.

 

[Geoff]

On the back of the tv tuner there will be a slot for an aerial or a video player. (Correct me if i'm wrong) when you put the tv tuner in you will be able to watch tv through your monitor.



When you record the movie to your hard drive watch it and find out how good the quality is.

On most TV Tuners, theres a coaxial input along with an RCA video input. But on some more expensive units they may have s-video inputs. You need to hook the audio up to the "Line-In" on your sound card for audio.

The quality on most TV Tuners (not HD tuners), are pretty poor. There good for making video cd's or converting old VHS tapes to CD/DVD, but its nowhere near DVD Quality.

 

[Syphr]

-- this is an additional question to this...

I have my television running through my computers TV Tuner card, and I'm considering getting Digital Cable. If i do get digital cable, will my computer be able to play the specialty channels coming from the box. How would the menu's work, or would they?

thanks, any thoughts would be great