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Le 2012-11-08 16:00, Jim Morton a écrit :
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On 11/8/2012 3:38 PM, Marc Paré wrote:
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<blockquote type="cite">My mother is moving to a retirement home
and I am driving up to help out re-connecting all tech stuff.
She recently got a notice that her Cable service will go all HD
by end of November, so her analog PCI TV card will stop working.
She is 78 yrs old, likes to watch TV and play solitaire at the
same time on her 24in LCD monitor. Location: Sudbury Ontario.
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What card would you suggest for her system? I can't remember her
mobo maker, but what I do know is that
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* there are 2 PCI slots NO PCIe SLOTS
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* RAM is 2 gig
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* hardrive is 250gigs
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* she has an NVidia video card -- can't remember the model, but
nothing fancy
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I was looking at this card:
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.canadacomputers.com/product_info.php?cPath=44_563&item_id=Q78244">http://www.canadacomputers.com/product_info.php?cPath=44_563&item_id=Q78244</a><br>
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It looks like PCI cards are definitely getting harder to find!
Are there external USB cards that would work? She will be
hooking up through a cable set-top box.
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Cheers,
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Marc
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Take a look at the HD-PVR if the cable STB has component out. That
would connect to the PC via USB.
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.hauppauge.com/site/products/data_hdpvr.html">http://www.hauppauge.com/site/products/data_hdpvr.html</a>
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Thanks for the suggestion, I'll look into it. I am looking into HD
Homerun which gets good reviews on this list as well as on many
sites.<br>
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Marc<br>
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