I need a new computer
So I borrowed a digital tuner card off me little brother today. Well it works, however it seems that my computer is too slow to cope with the input (it's a PIII 866!). This box actually picks up all the digital channels and seems to have no problem with them. So I don't know what was wrong with the box I borrowed off Campbell. But it also means that my aerial should work fine. This one even works with my old set of rabbit-ears, although not the aerial that comes with the box.
So.
I need two things:
Actually I need three things. The third:
The first option is a hi-fi dvd recorder. If I get one with a hard drive I can use it as a vcr. The disadvantages, aside from the fact they're mostly only analogue at the moment, is that their editing is terribly primitive. Basically you can't with any control. It'd be ok for a short-medium term solution but I'd probably want to reedit everything at some point in the future and redo it all.
The other option is a tuner card of some sort. Having established that at least one digital tuner card works here I can probably safely get a digital one. The disadvantage is that I'd need a new computer.
So, a new computer with a tuner card and a big hard drive, and some good video editing software. What to get. I actually for a moment considered getting one of these (Dave'd be proud), but I don't think they have video inputs (I wonder if you can get a usb or firewire box with rca and aerial inputs?). Anyone have any recommendations or advice on what to get?
There are FireWire "break-out boxes" that can convert an analog signal to a DV stream. Though I just use my DV camcorder as a real-time converter (some of them have this ability, but not all).
May 8, 2005 11:18 PMeyeTV makes a few different external models for the Macintosh. http://www.elgato.com/eyeTV/
May 9, 2005 9:48 PMI'm not sure if Alchemy makes any exteral boxes....
I shall have a look :)
I took the box to work, and while my work puta can cope with the speeds ok, it can still only get channel 7 and 2, and a couple of the digital only channels. I don't think a faster computer will help here, I don't think the reception will be good enough, so I'm thinking I may just get an analogue tuner card :/
May 9, 2005 10:32 PM