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Well I bought a TV Wonder 200 PCI Card for my computer about a week ago at bestbuy for about 45$ and I have a few questions.


1) My main question is there anyway for the screen to take up my whole monitor not just like a 1/3rd of it? Because it doesn't go any bigger then like 1/3 of my monitor.

2) To my first question is this because of my TvTuner Card or with all TvTuner's?

3) I dont know much about TvTuner Cards but is there anything thats good about them other then watching tv and Recording TV ( Haven't Tried yet ) that I should know?

4) A few channels have like a fuzzy part in the picture that takes up like 1/2 of the picture so basically makes those channels unuseable, any ideas what is causing this?



I very much appreciate if anyone has answers to any of the questions.

Thank You.

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hi.
to the 1 question
i do not see the reason why the picture to not been maximized.did you try full sreen buttons?first time i hear that that picture does not maxize.check the settings.
if this wan't work reinstalling the card is a good idea.
if the probl;em is still there probably faulty card.
as you say its a new card, return it for an hauppauge card or pinnacle.
2 question.
when you bought htat card which one was the reason?
i mean for what use you bought it.all card are for watching tv shows, record tv shows for later viewing scheduling recording.
3 question.
check the antenna cable.andrescan the channels?
does your normal tv looks ok in these channels?
if yes antenna problem.

Reply to bacis

Yes its on full screen, but the menu and such takes up most of the screen.


So im gonna put a screenshot of it in fullscreen, plus the fuzzyness channel.


http://i94.photobucket.com/albums/ [...] vtuner.jpg


Thanks very much for any feedback.

Reply to Storm1234

WOW, I figured it out for FullScreen it looks amazing.

Now my only problem is Channel 6 is fuzzy for some reason.

Also as I was figuring this out, My E: Drive has dissappeared and I had this Error pop up in the bottom right hand corner forget what it said. I rebooted and my E harddrive is still not showing up.


I heard TvTuner's didn't cause much strain on a computer, but I think they do quite a bit. I think this all could have done with so much stuff on at the same time.

Well hopefully Ill beable to fix this, think it had to do with recording. I just tried recording with my new card and thats when it all went wrong, and when I rebooted all kinds of stuff hung, almost thought it wasnt gonna boot.

Well I'll get back to you all, all I had to do is double click the picture window for fullscreen heh.


Thanks Storm~

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