Sign in with
Sign up | Sign in
Your question

Partial TV out?

Tags:
  • Tuner Cards
  • TV
  • Computer
  • Graphics
Last response: in Graphics & Displays
Share
Anonymous
January 6, 2002 8:08:28 PM

So here's what I want to do. I want to create a computer that takes in a cable TV signal. I want it to be able to play DVDs. The problem is that I do not want to watch TV or movies on my computer monitor, but rather on my TV. So basically, I guess I'm saying that I want to use my computer almost like a stand alone DVD player, but I still want to be able to view my computer applications on my monitor. In fact, I would like to do that simultaneously. Does anyone understand what I am trying to do? Anyone have any ideas on what hardware to get?

More about : partial

Anonymous
January 7, 2002 11:11:16 AM

You want to use your computer as a DVD player and TV Tuner for a normal TV.

I suggest -
find a good display cards with direct DVD to TV out option for the DVD out and use a seperated Cable tuner for the rest of the stuff.
Anonymous
January 9, 2002 2:52:01 AM

Any suggestions on the cable tuner? I'm actually hoping to digitalize the cable tv signal on the fly and send it back out to the tv with a higher quality signal.
Related resources
Anonymous
January 9, 2002 5:12:51 PM

I thought that converting the signal to a digital one and passing it on through RCA cables rather than coax would make the analog cable signal I get have a better quality. Is that wrong?
Anonymous
January 10, 2002 1:48:11 AM

Yes.
you will be converting the signal to "digital" that is moving it true a Anti Alising filter, then A/D converter - on both cases you loose quality.
Then you play with the signal in the computer and maybe drop some frames out.
On the end you play it back out to analog - again D/A convertor, anti alising filter etc.
From here you again go on analog cable getting noise to the signal, and finaly into the TV.

Or you can go from the Coax into the tuner built in the TV, No Filters, No converters, no extra RCA cables for audio and video that collect signal noise, no extra cards installed in the cmputer, No need to have the computer on in order to watch TV.
(If you need more reasons I am avelable I will provide them).
Anonymous
January 10, 2002 4:15:54 AM

well those all seem like good reasons... I just thought I could figure out a way of getting "digital" cable (by that i mean cable with digital picture quality) without going and paying for it. What if I were to say in addition, that I wanted to add dolby digital sound to the computer. This way I could get my DVDplayer, stereo system, and cable box, all in a single machine rather that have a rack of components... does that change anything?
Anonymous
January 10, 2002 4:56:38 AM

No, Digital cables are totaly diferant thing
More like a network with video streaming then a TV.
Instead of TV signal you get a digital one that is being decoded in a special Decoder provided by your cable company.

You have a analog signal. The less you will mock and play with it before you go into the TV the better quality you will have.
!