From owner-freebsd-multimedia Wed Oct 8 09:12:14 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id JAA26808 for multimedia-outgoing; Wed, 8 Oct 1997 09:12:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-multimedia) Received: from neptune.ajc.state.net (neptune.ajc.state.net [204.120.158.168]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id JAA26796 for ; Wed, 8 Oct 1997 09:12:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Al.Johnson@AJC.State.Net) Received: from AJC.State.Net (saturn.ajc.state.net [204.120.158.166]) by neptune.ajc.state.net (8.8.6/8.8.5) with ESMTP id LAA15696; Wed, 8 Oct 1997 11:10:53 -0500 (CDT) Message-ID: <343BB0BB.97AD1BF0@AJC.State.Net> Date: Wed, 08 Oct 1997 11:11:39 -0500 From: Al Johnson Organization: Al Johnson Consulting X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.02 [en] (Win95; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: skn0@sigsmtp.sial.com CC: multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Tuner and Video cards References: <343B94A6.6BFD@sigsmtp.sial.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Scott, I've got a Gateway 2000 but my tuner card was added after purchase. I picked up a STB TV/PCI card for $89 at Best Buy. It works virtually flawlessly with any S3 video chip. I pipe in camcorder, C/Ku band satellite and use the tuner occasionally for local broadcast TV stuff. THE STB TV/PCI comes with Win95 software but I have found the FXTV FreeBSD version to be just as good. -- Al Scott Nelson wrote: > > I am in the process of deciding what kind of computer to buy and what > features I need. I'm looking at the Gateway, Micron, and Dell. Because > we have children, I think I'd like to have a tuner card so the kids can > capture images from the camcorder, satellite dish, etc. I know nothing > about tuner cards so I need to know what to look for, what software I > need, etc. It seems that only Gateway offers a tuner card. Can anyone > give me some feedback? > > Thanks