I have been thinking..........

We have a TV downstairs connected to a DVD recorder and freeview set top box. Unfortunately we can only record the program we are watching. As my new PC comes with two huge disks and a DVD writer I am thinking that a TV tuner/recorder card would be a perfect use for it!

Does anybody have a TV card? - Or know someone who has? - And what is the quality of the picture?

I was thinking of the nebula DigiTV card - http://www.nebula-electronics.com/information/info.asp?Code=0001

It's got great reviews but I can't find any pictures of the quality anywhere.  Its quite expensive but seeing as it
can pick up freeview and digital radio its not a bad deal as long as the quality is good.

Any advice or anything (you can even just say helo if you like) would be greatly apprechiated!

Thats slightly different Ozzy, this would tune into an incoming  digital signal from the roof Ariel. I have no reason to doubt the quality of it - after all its the same equipment as a freeview set-top-box just put into a PCI card!

I just have a mistrust of anything that sounds too good Anyway I think i'll give it a go and see what happens!

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Perhaps you could try windows movie maker?

I ordered it this morning, it should be here by Wednesday. I'll let you know how it does!

It came on Tuesday - after some fiddleing with aeriels I finally got it working! The picture quality is excellent and the software is great. One gripe however is that I cant seem to set it to the correct date.....

The signal for a few channels such as ITV2 are slightly volatile but thats no loss! (24 hour pop Idol or whatever crap they can think of next...)

Now I have to find some things to record! - then I can get burning... (manic Dr Evil laugh)

It also means that the computer for sister may get the go-ahead!