Hi there
Not an answer to your post - but with decent broadband and online TV services do you really NEED a tuner card any more. Also with online TV you don't need any aerial etc and if new TV services start you don't need all the fuss of re-tuning etc.
Also the online services generally have decent "Catch up" systems, On Demand services and download so you can play in your own time later. (Plus online services often allow you to get TV from different countries that you can't pick up with a standard domestic tuner card or TV).
Tuner cards won't give access to Sports and these sorts of services too -- Online works fine. - Can even get ENG Vs India Test match cricket live in Iceland !!!
Cheers
jimbo
Online IPTV is another story, my internet provider gives me 50 free channels and from another service for cheap I get over 600, I watch maybe 5 or 6 regularly. There are literary thousands of free TV channels over internet too but might have to spoof IP to watch them.
Hi there.
I have to do that to get access to SKY GO for example as it's only "officially" available in the UK and ROI. (Eire). - however there are so many decent proxies etc it's about time Internet TV was supplied on a WORLD WIDE basis - the providers would get more revenue, the creators of the content (authors, musicians, actors, producers, general dogsbodies etc) would get more, the consumers wouldn't have to rely on torrents to get shows not scheduled for their region / area so EVERYBODY wins.
Piracy would also diminish. I know in the UK some US TV series are shown MONTHS after they have been aired in the US -- however by the time they arrive so many people have seen them already that they aren't watched by a lot - hence the advertising revenue drops. !!
This sort of stuff is SO obvious I can't understand why we don't have World Wide TV already without having to go through these loops - which nobody can stop however hard they try. Once you start getting into the TOR network then it really does become almost impossible to stop this stuff too whatever the courts say to various ISP's about blocking sites and / or proxies. Service would be a lot cheaper to as you could have several BILLION subscribers planet wide -- I think didn't it used to be known as THE WORLD WIDE WEB not just USA's web or UK's web.
@CountMike - For Security Video recording and surveillance it's cheaper and easier to use a networked webcam or something like that just to record video to a decent NAS -with almost unlimited storage and fast retrieval and play back. VHS tapes are a pain - even in LONG PLAY they only last 3 hrs max. (Super EP which *might* record for a bit longer gives such a bad image - even with modern video enhancement methods that it would be totally inadmissible as Court Evidence in a prosecution (or defence) .
Also you can supply a bit of logic to the modern security system -- it can initiate phone calls to Police etc if required and a load more things like that.
In my part of the world people probably don't KNOW what a VHS tape is any more -- that type of stuff has been long since digitized. !!
Cheers
jimbo