Recording TV to hard drive

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Bob Hansen

Hi Group.
Sorry, I know this is not on topic but I'm not sure where to start. What I
want to do is to record television programming on my PC's hard drive, and
then watch and control it from the PC. I don't want a massive, expensive
home theater system, just my current PC and current TV. I did Google this
but all I found was big, expensive, complete systems. I suspect I would need
a different video card with the proper inputs and outputs. Not sure what
else. I would be grateful if someone could point me in the right direction.
Bob Hansen
 
You would need a Video capture device. One choice is from
Plextor & is the following:
http://www.plextor.com/english/products/TV402U.htm
The setup varies, but with this device you can feed video from
a number of sources to the TV402U unit. One nice thing about
it is it's ability to save directly to Divx and other compressed file
formats. I've deployed a few for customers who needed a way
to transfer from moviecams and other sources.
 
You need a video card capable of capturing tv signal and software to do
it... and a rather large hard drive! XP Media Center Edition is better
equipped to do this as it comes bundled with the kind of software
necessary to do that, but you can get any other suitable software and do
it with any other operating system.

John
 
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