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Chat & Social => The Bar - General Chat => Topic started by: strapping young lad on February 13, 2006, 20:16:52

Title: capture card
Post by: strapping young lad on February 13, 2006, 20:16:52

ive got a hauppauge tv card in my pc and a sky+ box in the living room.

i want to nab tv progs so i can shove them on dvd and watch them when im travelling

however the problem i have is distance

its a good 10metres from one to the other and ive tried a basic wireless sender but due to there being a wall or two in the way signal gets distorted somewhat

can anyone here suggest what my options are?

Title: capture card
Post by: Lee_D on February 13, 2006, 20:53:46

Do you have an aerial lead running through the house or up to the loft?

Do you have bugalow or a house?

Is the Computer on the same floor or upstairs downstairs type thing?

I tap into the aerial wire (with splitters and male-male or is it female to female connectors from maplin) which rarlely gets used as an aerial but ships signals from the output of the video downstairs to the TV's and computer TV card.

Lee

Title: capture card
Post by: strapping young lad on February 13, 2006, 20:57:32

good point but alas no

its a house

tv is by the front window bottom floor

the pc is at the back room furthest point from the door and to be honest couldnt get further from the tv.

Title: capture card
Post by: Damonski on February 13, 2006, 21:10:02

I just run a good quality coax from our lounge TV point, round the lounge, up the stairs, across the landing and into the back of my Hauppage card.

I dont notice any difference in quality from the TV downstairs to my Hauppage card.

I did it first with cheap coax, it worked but the signal and picture quality was poor.