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Le 2012-11-08 16:31, Mark J. Small a écrit :
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<pre wrap="">On November 8, 2012, Mark J. Small wrote:
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<pre wrap="">On November 8, 2012, Marc Paré wrote:
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<pre wrap=""> Le 2012-11-08 15:38, Marc Paré a écrit :
My mother is moving to a retirement home and I am driving up to help out
re-connecting all tech stuff. She recently got a notice that her Cable
service will go all HD by end of November, so her analog PCI TV card will
stop working. She is 78 yrs old, likes to watch TV and play solitaire at
the same time on her 24in LCD monitor. Location: Sudbury Ontario.
What card would you suggest for her system? I can't remember her mobo
maker, but what I do know is that
* there are 2 PCI slots NO PCIe SLOTS
* RAM is 2 gig
* hardrive is 250gigs
* she has an NVidia video card -- can't remember the model, but nothing
fancy
I was looking at this card:
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.canadacomputers.com/product_info.php?cPath=44_563&item_id=Q782">http://www.canadacomputers.com/product_info.php?cPath=44_563&item_id=Q782</a>
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It looks like PCI cards are definitely getting harder to find! Are there
external USB cards that would work? She will be hooking up through a
cable set-top box.
Cheers,
Marc
I forgot to mention that she is running Mageia2 Linux.
Cheers,
Marc
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Is her cable company going all digital or all HD? If it is just digital
and she's not doing the HD thing, then I'd reuse the existing card and get
a decent IR blaster to go along with it.
My cable company went all digital a few years back. I'm running three
analog tuners with three Standard Def cable boxes and IR Blasters to
control each ofthem.
Since she is Sudbury, she is probably on Eastlink. I know that they charge
extra for HD signals. If she isn't going to pay for HD, then find out if
her cable box has composite or coax outputs. These will feed in to your
old analog card happily. Check the wiki for IR blaster use.
Hope this helps,
Mark
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As a follow up, she'll probably get a DCX700. Have a look at the outputs
here:
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://myeastlink.ca/CustomerSupport/TV/EquipmentCables/DigitalReceivers.aspx">http://myeastlink.ca/CustomerSupport/TV/EquipmentCables/DigitalReceivers.aspx</a>
You can use coax or composite for standard def with your existing tuner.
Composite is better. All you need is an IR blaster (which you would need
anyway with a new card).
Mark
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Thanks for the 2 messages, and yes, it looks like you are right. She
wants a new HD-TV and would like to watch TV on her Mageia box. I am
not sure if this makes a difference. I would imagine that she will
want a HD set top box and if possible on her monitor. She is not
really worried about watching a different channel on both as she
would only watch one programme at a time. I don't believe that she
is interested in doing any PVR, nor would she have the patience to
set up a schedule for recording.<br>
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I put in a PowerView analog tvcard in her computer
[<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.factorydirect.ca/Product.aspx?sku=PO0010">http://www.factorydirect.ca/Product.aspx?sku=PO0010</a>]. Would just
getting a HD HomeRun simplify everything? Would she still need an IR
Blaster with this? And it looks like if she goes digital-HD she
would need, like you suggested, the Eastlink DCX700.<br>
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This would still leave me the option of installing MythTV on her
desktop and recording programmes (I would increase her hardrive to
1TB). She is actually not bad at working Mageia.<br>
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Marc<br>
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