From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Oct 17 11:28:06 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9ADD016A41F for ; Mon, 17 Oct 2005 11:28:06 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from danny@ricin.com) Received: from smtpq3.home.nl (smtpq3.home.nl [213.51.128.198]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3281743D48 for ; Mon, 17 Oct 2005 11:28:05 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from danny@ricin.com) Received: from [213.51.128.136] (port=56529 helo=smtp5.home.nl) by smtpq3.home.nl with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1ERT9w-0006Wp-SG; Mon, 17 Oct 2005 13:28:04 +0200 Received: from cp464173-a.dbsch1.nb.home.nl ([84.27.215.228]:51563 helo=desktop.homenet) by smtp5.home.nl with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1ERT9u-0002v6-9r; Mon, 17 Oct 2005 13:28:02 +0200 From: Danny Pansters To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2005 13:27:02 +0000 User-Agent: KMail/1.8.2 References: In-Reply-To: X-Face: :N, f2_*44g[tRY8Y-gL2zi`G|<6SpFjTeHt|V5LO6Yl2E7yAfEh{E6-8pqxUFX"l)=?utf-8?q?Nm8y=7E=0A=09IWJSAWQ=7D+=3DpP=7CT=5D?=@sy1sz%h)*CW6gtbp]"fe@MjICtIUo.0, CH~{[R4PXSyL MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200510171327.02670.danny@ricin.com> X-AtHome-MailScanner-Information: Please contact support@home.nl for more information X-AtHome-MailScanner: Found to be clean Cc: ross Subject: Re: Recommended TV Tuner Capture Card X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2005 11:28:06 -0000 On Monday 17 October 2005 03:00, ross wrote: > I'm looking for a very basic TV tuner for my machine. I don't have a tv > right now and I want something I can hook my VCR into. I'm looking to > spend the least amount of money so old hardware gotten off e-bay is the > idea. Any recomendations? I'd recommend the good old Miro PC TV family. Bt848 or 878. Also widely used, at least in Europe, are the Hauppauge WinTV cards but they are of somewhat lesser quality IMHO (soldering not very neat, etc. One of these actually burned out on me once with some of the circuitry getting completely melted). In any event, the tuner unit will get warm/hot so put it in a slot where it has some "breathing" space. Not next to your graphics card for example. HTH, Dan