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kylehawkins2000 · Joined: 08 Apr 2003

What is involved with recording from a TV onto a computer harddrive? What kind of hardware/software is needed?

My friends brother has offered to record Hockey Night In Canada and send it to us via the internet. Problem is, none of us really know how to go about doing it.....

kylehawkins2000 · Joined: 08 Apr 2003

I've found a product on the internet called "WinTV Pvr250" Looks like it's for recording from TV to Computer. Is this just a piece of software? Or does it come with some hardware?

The price is higher than I care to spend (close to $200 CAnadian). Anyone know any alternative?

the_beaver · Joined: 15 Jan 2003

Get a TV card. I have an Avermedia card and it works fine. 30,000 won.

The Lemon · Joined: 11 Jan 2003

Just to add to beaver's accurate suggestion - these TV cards are also called capture cards. Depending on where and what you're buying, they run from 30,000w to 70,000w. They tend to have both a coaxial (antenna) input, as well as an RCA-jack video input. They also have an audio out, that you connect to your sound card.

The capture quality of these sub-100,000w cards is so-so... most are based on bt848/878 chipsets, which are getting pretty old. But they're useful if you want a 2nd TV (that's what I'm doing with mine), or as a way of making video files. I do this sometimes with my camcorder and put the video into the computer through the capture card, edit it in Premiere and zap it to my family over the net - cheaper and faster than sending 8mm/VHS tapes, which was the old way.

But if you have a digital video camcorder and a firewire card, the quality will be WAY better.

And for Kyle's situation, the mail might be a better solution - a 3 hour hockey game will be a HUGE task to record, compress, and offer on server. Forget about e-mailing something like that as an attachment.. too massive a file.