[NTLUG:Discuss] Video Card with Svideo

[MadHat]

On Tue, 2003-01-21 at 17:42, Paul Ingendorf wrote:
> This is exactly what I am doing with my setup.  The reason I picked this card 
> is for the price.  It was cheap enough and had the performance I was looking 
> for.  When you mirror the TV and monitor you end up with a virtual screen on 
> the TV much like when you set your viewport lower than the screen size in X.  
> This card does not support video input however so without adding a tuner card 
> you are out of luck on the tivo functionality.  However for $400 you can get a 
> real tivo with a lifetime subscription to the tivo service.  Thats $150 for 
> the box and $250 for the service plus applicable taxes of course.  If you are 
> able to find a series 1 unit then video extraction is truly trivial to anyone 
> who has any experience with linux and another $80 for a 10/100 network card.

So, what card do you have?  You never say...
I do have a tuner card.  Cheap one, but it works. 
As for a Tivo, why would I want to spend $400 when I can get the parts
to add on to what I already have for less than $100 and have something
to play with for a while as well.  And I can't play games on Tivo, I
can't add some of the functionality, I can't customize it the way I
want, it's not as much fun to hack and I would be really upset if I
broke it after wasting $400.

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