| Author | Message | Time |
|---|---|---|
| Myndfyr | I have access to Windows Media Center Edition and am not ever home to watch my favorite episodes of Star Trek: Deep Space 9 (I sound like a friggen commercial). I want to be able to tape them. Cable has autotune for me, but I want to be able to just have it run while I'm not home, and I don't have a VCR. Does anyone know of any good, cheap TV tuner cards? Or, anyone have a Media Center PC? | July 13, 2005, 1:04 AM |
| shout | You could use bittorrent to download them. :) | July 13, 2005, 2:37 AM |
| Myndfyr | [quote author=Shout link=topic=12193.msg120442#msg120442 date=1121222222] You could use bittorrent to download them. :) [/quote] I've done that before, and while that's okay, the Entire DS9 collection is over 48 DVDs. Generally 3-4 one-hour episodes fit on one disc, and there are 48 DVDs in that collection. If a single episode of Alias takes me one night to download (another one-hour series) and I manage to get good seeds for every show, even the old ones (esp. since DS9 is a dead series), I'll run at 192 nights. I need a better alternative. Spike TV has 2 episodes on per day, and 3 episodes of TNG per day. M*A*S*H has 4 episodes per day. It would be easy to record these if I could just plug in. | July 13, 2005, 2:48 AM |
| R.a.B.B.i.T | PCWorld had a Top 10 of TV Tuner Cards a few months back. I'll dig through my stack and see if I can find it for you. In the meantime, I've heard good things about the ATI All-in-Wonder. Not the cheapest cards, I'm sure, but very good. | July 13, 2005, 4:19 AM |
| zorm | You can buy a Tivo for I believe around $99 or something now. With the new TivoToGo software you can download the episodes to burn them to a dvd or hack your tivo and extract them that way. It might be cheaper than buying a seperate TV Tuner card but I haven't really looked at what they cost. | July 13, 2005, 4:41 AM |
| Myndfyr | Sorry for the bump... I ended up getting a Hauppauge WinTV-PVR-150 at CompUSA. I wasn't going to get a WinTV card because of the price ($100), but at CompUSA I picked it up because it was marked at $70. I went to take it up, and it rang up as $100. I said, "Whoa whoa whoa, this was marked $70." They said it was a tag error, but since it was their error they gave it to me. :) Works well, too. Today I watched an episode of DS9 while TNG was recording. :) | July 14, 2005, 11:40 PM |
| LoRd | Tigerdirect has them all the way from $40 to $200. | July 15, 2005, 12:52 AM |
| Newby | I've got a spare PVR-250. :) | July 15, 2005, 1:28 AM |
| Myndfyr | [quote author=Newby link=topic=12193.msg120771#msg120771 date=1121390881] I've got a spare PVR-250. :) [/quote] Want to send it to me and I can still return the 150 in the next 29 days? ;) | July 15, 2005, 2:42 AM |
| Newby | [quote author=MyndFyre link=topic=12193.msg120803#msg120803 date=1121395359] [quote author=Newby link=topic=12193.msg120771#msg120771 date=1121390881] I've got a spare PVR-250. :) [/quote] Want to send it to me and I can still return the 150 in the next 29 days? ;) [/quote] Beh. I should have specified. You have to fine-tune it while it's working. It's practically impossible to tune. I'll get around to looking for it, and if I find it, I'll get in contact with you. ;) | July 15, 2005, 3:40 AM |