TV viewing through a PC

[donq]

I have a new Dell Inspiron 530 PC with Vista Home Premium O/S. There is an integrated hybrid (analogue/digital) TV tuner installed and Windows Media Centre. I would like to be able to view tv through the PC and I have satellite television supplied to my tv sets. I have followed the Media Center Set Up instructions (which are rather brief!) which basically mean connecting a remote sensor and then connecting a tv aerial to the TV In connection on the PC. When I run the Media Center programme to the point of tuning, it indicates no signal being received. Am I missing some important step or am I attempting the impossible? Any help on this matter would be greatly appreciated.

[danzil]

hi there

everytime i have set up tv on media centre i have had to use a extremely powerfull aerial with a booster and even then the signal isnt as good as what is expected.....

are you using a good aerial.....is all the drivers for the tv card install.

have a look here http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/mediacenter/using/setup/default.mspx

regards

danzil

[donq]

Hi Danzil, Thanks for your reply. This looks useful information. It looks as if I have been missing a very important point - I had connected my satelite aerial to my pc but made no connection between the tv and the pc. From the info through your connecting link it looks like I should be using an s video connection. Am I right about this?

[danzil]

if its a tv card you should be able to use the tv in connector,to plug in your satellite,,,,this will only receive the channel you are watching...unless it is a dvb-t card then a strong aerial is needed.

regards

danzil

[donq]

Thanks for the further info. Sorry to be a nuisance and I'm probably being a bit stupid here but what I want to do is to view tv tranmissions on my pc monitor. I have connected the satellite aerial to the pc aerial port but do I also have to have a connection between a tv set and the pc? The TV tuner and Windows Media Player was fully installed by Dell before delivery but there was very liitle literature supplied. I have a full satellite aerial so I don't think there will be any problem there

[danzil]

hi

nope you do not need to connect anything to the tv...unless you want the tv to acts as the monitor.....when connecting the aerial to the pc you have in theory created a tv,,,,the tuner is obviously what picks up the signal and the monitor would be ya tv screen,.nice and simple....supposedly.lol

regards

danzil

[donq]

Thanks again Danzil. I shall have another try. There must be some other simple explanation why I'm not having success!

 

Regards,

 

donq