Re: OT- What do you all think of this new TV card?

On Sat, 14 Oct 2000 17:31:34 GMT, "rik anthrax" <[email hidden]> wrote: >Hans <[email hidden]> wrote in message >> http://www.systemlogic.net/reviews/hardware/videocards/3dfx/vtv200/ >be carefull about the v3 3500, it has problems, tv out is nice, but ..... Hmm, you didn't bother to check that URL, did you? As it's not about the V3 3500 at all but a new, TV-only board from 3dfx ... :) Jan

I have a TV card on my computer...it's quite handy while watching CART races...I can set my desktop up as a TV, so my desktop plays the CART race, I can access live timing and scoring from cart.com, not to mention pit-chatter...it's a helluva lot cheaper way to enjoy a race than actually being there...and you have more info at your fingertips! -Kaaveh "Hans" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:0LXF5.11802$[email hidden]...

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> > http://www.systemlogic.net/reviews/hardware/videocards/3dfx/vtv200/ > > > Watching the races and surfing or playing games at thesame time? > > Hmm.. > > Not sure :-) > > What do you all think? > > Thanks > >

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> > >http://www.systemlogic.net/reviews/hardware/videocards/3dfx/vtv200/ > > >Watching the races and surfing or playing games at thesame time? > >Hmm.. > >Not sure :-) > >What do you all think? > >Thanks >

My friend has a ATI TV crad and it works with his cable too I really liked it and if I can find a tv tuner card that works with digital cable for around $50 I will take the plunge. :)

http://www.systemlogic.net/reviews/hardware/videocards/3dfx/vtv200/ Watching the races and surfing or playing games at thesame time? Hmm.. Not sure :-) What do you all think? Thanks

be carefull about the v3 3500, it has problems, tv out is nice, but ..... Hans <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:0LXF5.11802$[email hidden]...

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> > http://www.systemlogic.net/reviews/hardware/videocards/3dfx/vtv200/ > > > Watching the races and surfing or playing games at thesame time? > > Hmm.. > > Not sure :-) > > What do you all think? > > Thanks > >

I used to have a TV Card, but got rid of it and got a TV on my desk now. (Right next to my monitor) TV Card is too much $ for what you get. 13 Color TV < $100.00 and takes no load from my PC. "Hans" <[email hidden]> wrote: -<+>- -<+>-http://www.systemlogic.net/reviews/hardware/videocards/3dfx/vtv200/ -<+>- -<+>- -<+>-Watching the races and surfing or playing games at thesame time? -<+>- -<+>-Hmm.. -<+>- -<+>-Not sure :-) -<+>- -<+>-What do you all think? -<+>- -<+>-Thanks -<+>- Thanks, Mike Alexander ([email hidden]) Torch Red 1986 C4 "ITIS4FN" Pictures available at http://alexander.dyndns.org My 2nd Baby!!! (Note:remove the no_tickets. to send email)

> I used to have a TV Card, but got rid of it and got a TV on my desk now.(Right next to my monitor) > TV Card is too much $ for what you get. 13 Color TV < $100.00 and takesno load from my PC. In the UK, a TV is �80 for a cheap one, or �100 with teletext, but a TV card is less than �50, and you can watch TV and look at teletext at the same time. Well worth getting, but mine clashes with my ISA SC, so it's about time I went SB Live! Andy -- Visit my site... http://mail.wm-europe.com/~andrew/ Read about my Mini... http://mail.wm-europe.com/~andrew/mini/ Use console pads on a PC ... http://www.consolepads.co.uk Music videos and DC games ... http://mail.wm-europe.com/~andrew/ftp.html

On Mon, 16 Oct 2000 10:57:52 +0100, "Andy Laurence" <[email hidden]> wrote:

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>> I used to have a TV Card, but got rid of it and got a TV on my desk now. >(Right next to my monitor) >> TV Card is too much $ for what you get. 13 Color TV < $100.00 and takes >no load from my PC. > >In the UK, a TV is �80 for a cheap one, or �100 with teletext, but a TV card >is less than �50, and you can watch TV and look at teletext at the same >time. Well worth getting, but mine clashes with my ISA SC, so it's about >time I went SB Live!

I might as well throw my experiences with this in here for people interested in the topic. I have had video tuner/cap cards for about 5 years at least. I started with an ATITV card that added on to my existing card. It worked very well and never gave me much of a problem. The tuner physically got kind of wobbly on the card eventually so I bought a newer revision which also worked quite well. The newer BT8xx chip on there also worked with some other thing I was trying to do at the time, maybe some Linux thing or something. That was back in the days when a 2 meg PCI card was a big deal. I even bought a 2 meg upgrade for one of those cards and thought I was in hardware heaven. When I put together a new computer I wanted new video stuff. I bought an ATI All-in-wonder PCI card. This, too, worked very well for me. I was able to capture decent video without dropped frames, do a webcam thing, and most of all watch TV in a little window on my monitor while I worked on other stuff. Someone else noted making the video into your desktop and having web sites open with additional race info. I used to do that (and still do) with NASCAR, but I use a small window instead of the whole desktop. I was really starting to get into gaming and had been hearing about "3Dfx" VooDoo cards. I got a Diamond Monster II 12 MEG and was thoroughly blown away for one of the few times in my history of computing. I used this happily right up through the next major hardware revision where I built a P2/450 with and AGP slot. I got an ATI All-in-wonder AGP for that machine and popped in the MOnster II. It was with great excitement that I heard about the new 3Dfx cards. The "Voodoo 3" series. I wasted no time in buying a VooDoo3/2000 PCI, thinking it would compliment my ATI AGP card. I was all ready to put it in and realized that it wasnt an add on card. DOH! I would suddenly be without the tuner and cap abilities I had grown to know and love. I ran out and bought a "Hauppaugge WinTV" card to compliment my new VooDoo3/2000 PCI and suddenly had an unused AGP slot. Solution? Run back out and buy a VooDoo3/3000 AGP. That same setup is still in my computer, now a C2/566@850. The Hauppaugge card works great and always has. It works under Linux and BeOS, too. It is fed by my cable TV cable, my camcorder (for video capture), my webcam (a Sony HAndycam on a tripod on my desk) and an ancient TV camera that points out the front of my house at my driveway (so I can see who's coming here when I am sequestered in my computer room) The moral of the story is: TV tuner cards like the Hauppaugge WinTV PCI work really well and for my purposes are worth every cent of the 100$ or so that they cost. They do NOT drain your system of resources. If you have any inclination to get one for TV in a window (hard to do video or screen caps from a little TV next to your computer. You don;t get stereo or surround sound, either.) I say go for it. There are also a lot of other interesting uses for them. Mine even has an FM tuner built in which I don;t use beceause there;s no radio reception where i live. ~daxe

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