Internet on the TV

[Mike_C]

I will NOT buy a TIVO, because it is subject to blackout so when moviemakers decide they don't want a movie to be recorded, they can prevent you from doing so. They are not doing much of that yet but I'm sure it's coming. I have the s-video output of my direcTV receiver fed into a video capture card on my computer and I can record anything without them knowing it, and the quality is excellent. BUT, you do need to buy a high end capture card. I started with an el-cheapo ATI capture card and it was crap. The audio and video kept getting out of sync on a 3GHz P4. I switched to a Pinnacle brand card that does MPEG compression in hardware and all is well. Pinnacle is a professional class where ATI is a consumer class. If you want to see good comparisons of capture cards go to
www.videoguys.com

 

[MikeIA]

I'm waiting for the Slingboxes to come down in price, so I can watch cable TV from work (and the security cameras, too) at home.
We won't dump the Dish Network, but there are times that I don't want to watch what my wife and daughter are watching. I can live with TV in a window as I'm surfing TBN. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif