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epidemicz   06-01-2009 at 09:47:52 PM

I just got a big daddy 28" monitor (waiting for me when i get home woot) http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] 6824254026

So, I was thinking about using it as my TV as well since my tv is a super old CRT piece of crap. I have a charter hd cable box and was wondering if anyone has any suggestions on what card I should look at?

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Wolfshadw   06-02-2009 at 12:42:23 AM
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Heh... Nice monitor, I hope! (I get mine on Thursday). :)

I currently use an AVerMedia Combo PCI-E MCE Tuner Card and it works ok with my Comcast HD box.

I've heard many people recommend the Hauppage 1800 or 2250 TV Tuners as well.

-Wolf sends

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epidemicz   06-02-2009 at 01:41:03 AM
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hell yeah man this thing is awesome, not a single dead pixel.

i appreciate the suggestions, ill def look into them. what os you running? hoping i can make something work for the latest 7 release

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Crashman   06-02-2009 at 01:58:35 AM
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epidemicz wrote :

I just got a big daddy 28" monitor (waiting for me when i get home woot) http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] 6824254026

So, I was thinking about using it as my TV as well since my tv is a super old CRT piece of crap. I have a charter hd cable box and was wondering if anyone has any suggestions on what card I should look at?



If you can sacrifice the upper channels and On-Demand, the lower digital channels use Clear QAM technology which is available on several tuner cards. I know this because someone in my family was using a TV with built-in Clear QAM tuner to pick up channels 2-99.

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Wolfshadw   06-02-2009 at 03:12:36 AM
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I'm using Windows XP MCE 2005. No idea what kind of issues you may run into using Windows 7.

In response to Crashman, you can connect your TV Tuner card to the Video Out of your HD Cable box and receive all channels (decryption handled by the cable box).

-Wolf sends

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Gigabyte EP43-UD3L Intel Core2Quad Q8400 8 Gig RAM
NVidia Geforce 8800GTS-640/Creative X-FI Extreme Music/Dual-Boot XP-64&Server2008
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epidemicz   06-02-2009 at 04:12:13 AM
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thats good to know about the video out i was worried about not being able to see certain chans.

i know of a couple cards comp. with 7 ill try to find thst info again.

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