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| − | = Tuner Cards =
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| − | The basic important piece of non-standard PC hardware in a [[Myth Box]] is a TV Tuner Card. This is the board that hooks up to your cable or antenna and decodes and captures the video signal from the channel you want to record.
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| − | Tuner Cards currently (Aug 04) come in several types:
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| − | * Analog framebuffer cards
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| − | These cards are usually based on a [[chipset]] like the Bt848/878 or Conexant cx38882, and decode broadcast [[NTSC]], [[PAL]], or [[Secam]] television.
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| − | * Analog Hardware-MPEG cards
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| − | These cards, currently the Hauppauge [[PVR-250]] and [[PVR-350]] and the [[[[A Ver Media]] M-179]], have a video processor onboard which compresses the tuned video signal into an [[MPEG-2]] [[program stream]] before sending it into the computer. The tends to greatly reduce the load on the entire machine (with certain technical [[caveats]]), and these cards are recommended for.. well for all systems, really, but specifically, for systems with more than one, and especially more than 2 tuner cards.
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Latest revision as of 20:58, 5 February 2006
