External Freeview box thru PC

Oh man! Ad-blocking software has been detected! :'(

This website is run by the community, for the community... and it needs advertisements in order to keep running. Blocking our ads means your killing our stats!
Please disable your ad-block, or become a premium member to hide all advertisements and this notice.

HI All

Just a quick question. I have a spare external freeview box and wondered if there was any i could connect it to my pc. I have a tv card already but just get 5 channels and just wondered if this could be done.

 

Oh man! Ad-blocking software has been detected! :'(

This website is run by the community, for the community... and it needs advertisements in order to keep running. Blocking our ads means your killing our stats!
Please disable your ad-block, or become a premium member to hide all advertisements and this notice.

Can't see why not.

You connect a normal arial lead into the analogue TV card right?

There should be nothing stopping you plugging the arial into your digital box and plugging a cable from the box to the pc TV card.

 

Superb. What cable can i use to connect into the pc card

 

As far as I know, it would be the same lead you use to connect a VCR to a TV. (One end the same as a normal television arial, the other end the type that a normal arial lead could plug into.)

 

Sound mate. Cheers.

 

if your graphics card has s-video (super video) connection you should be able to put it in there but I am like AJ do you not need a digital ariel?

 

Not all graphics cards with a S-Video socket can accept *input*. Most of the cheaper cards are output only.

Freeview doesn't need a 'special' aerial as long as your normal one is correctly aligned.

Harry.

 

Your best bet would be to see if you can plug it directly into your monitor
some have S-Video and Composite inputs which might make more sense

but if you need it plugged right into the PC, then the above posts come into play