HDTV and Cable

[Ron]

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Can anyone tell me more about using an ATI card to receive higher
resolution HDTV from a cable box?

thanks,
Ron

 

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Ron wrote:

> Can anyone tell me more about using an ATI card to receive higher
> resolution HDTV from a cable box?

There's really nothing much to know. ATI does not at this time sell any
board that has this capability. You need a third party board that can
decode QAM and either pass the video across the PCI bus or pass through the
video signal from the ATI.
>
> thanks,
> Ron

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Ron wrote:
> Can anyone tell me more about using an ATI card to receive higher
> resolution HDTV from a cable box?
>
> thanks,
> Ron

Can't be done. However, Dvico makes a HDTV PCI card
that receives QAM (cable) and 8VSB (off the air) programming
and uses a graphics card as an output device. I have 3 of them.
Beware, it doesn't work as well with ATI cards as it does
with nvidia.

Jeff B

 

[TK]

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I can't get the HD signal but the S-video out is decent.

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> Can anyone tell me more about using an ATI card to receive higher
> resolution HDTV from a cable box?
>
> thanks,
> Ron




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[Ron]

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Jeff (and others),

Can anyone tell me more about the Dvico card that can receives QAM?

eg. Jeff 'uses a graphics card as the output device' Could you
describe what the setup is and how it is used? I'm not sure I am
picturing this correctly.

Ron






jeff b <fakeaddy@fjyfj.com> wrote in message news:<3jEzc.38046$eu.3373@attbi_s02>...
> Ron wrote:
> > Can anyone tell me more about using an ATI card to receive higher
> > resolution HDTV from a cable box?
> >
> > thanks,
> > Ron
>
> Can't be done. However, Dvico makes a HDTV PCI card
> that receives QAM (cable) and 8VSB (off the air) programming
> and uses a graphics card as an output device. I have 3 of them.
> Beware, it doesn't work as well with ATI cards as it does
> with nvidia.
>
> Jeff B

 

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Ron wrote:

> Jeff (and others),
>
> Can anyone tell me more about the Dvico card that can receives QAM?
>
> eg. Jeff 'uses a graphics card as the output device' Could you
> describe what the setup is and how it is used? I'm not sure I am
> picturing this correctly.

You put the Dvico in your machine. You plug the cable from the antenna or
from your cable provider into it. You install the software. You run the
configuration so it can find channels. You tune a channel. It pops up in
a window on your display, just like the output from any other program.

In other words it's pretty much the same deal as any other low-end capture
board, with the only real difference being that it has an HD tuner and
comes with software to decode the HD stream.

> Ron
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> jeff b <fakeaddy@fjyfj.com> wrote in message
> news:<3jEzc.38046$eu.3373@attbi_s02>...
>> Ron wrote:
>> > Can anyone tell me more about using an ATI card to receive higher
>> > resolution HDTV from a cable box?
>> >
>> > thanks,
>> > Ron
>>
>> Can't be done. However, Dvico makes a HDTV PCI card
>> that receives QAM (cable) and 8VSB (off the air) programming
>> and uses a graphics card as an output device. I have 3 of them.
>> Beware, it doesn't work as well with ATI cards as it does
>> with nvidia.
>>
>> Jeff B

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