Turn your PC into an HDTV

[boycriedwolf619]

Posted by Rick Broida
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Sure, you could pay iTunes two bucks for every episode of The Office you download to your PC. Or you could add a TV tuner and record unlimited shows--in high def!--free of charge. eCost has the Viore Portable HDTV Tuner for just $55, a steal at twice the price.

Just plug this USB tuner into your desktop or notebook, then connect an analog cable feed or the included ATSC antenna. The latter lets you pull down HD channels right outta thin air (provided you live in a metropolitan area).

To record shows for later viewing, you'll need Windows XP Media Center 2005, Windows Vista Premium, or Windows Vista Ultimate: Microsoft's Media Center (which is baked into those three operating systems) offers killer DVR capabilities. All you have to do is supply a tuner like this one. It even comes with a remote.

[J$crILLa]

interesting idea.....

[Bay Area Jat]

how about just buying a slingbox?

[.:TimeLock:.]

looks really simple, i remember before there was tvivo cable boxs there was tvivo cards for the pc had a few friends that used em but i never did i mite one of theses days

[Jip]

if you think that shitty ariel is gonna pick up a HDTV signal

think again

you'd need a proper digital ariel on your roof, then run the wire to your pc

[Matty]

sorry to be geeky but pc lcds dont have decent scaling chips in them normally. anything thats off native resolution will generally look crappy, whereas a DECENT HDTV has dedicated video processors and will be able to make all kinds of resolutions look nice ;]

so this cheap option isn't just cheaper in cost - it'd be cheap in image quality because of the pc screen constraints.....

unless you have a sick ass monitor then you've already spent out as much as a HD-TV.

[.:TimeLock:.]

sorry to be geeky but pc lcds dont have decent scaling chips in them normally. anything thats off native resolution will generally look crappy, whereas a DECENT HDTV has dedicated video processors and will be able to make all kinds of resolutions look nice ;]

so this cheap option isn't just cheaper in cost - it'd be cheap in image quality because of the pc screen constraints.....

unless you have a sick ass monitor then you've already spent out as much as a HD-TV.

u can still record in hd and play it back on ur hd tv/ hd monitor... no?

[big mat]

i'd rather pay and get someone to install all the last technological shit in my house

[Don Jacob]

....or you can just hook up your computer to the vga input that's in the back of mos HDTV's