Comments on: A Complete Guide to TV Tuner Cards

By: Bob

Bob — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 05:54:51 +0000

If I install a TV tuner card on my computer and I have an extra monitor, can I watch TV while I use the computer (it’s a brand new dual layer computer)?

By: Frenchy

Frenchy — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 23:29:02 +0000

I have a pinnacle TV HD Tuner PCI card for my PC.
It works well with my outdoor antenna when I connect directly to antenna coax with a coax coupler. I can get HD and SD channels.

However when I connect it and my HD TV to 4way (all power pass through) splitter I get no channels on PC card. But my HD TV does get the over the air channels.

I want the antenna to work for both.
What am i missing.

I only bought that splitter because it said it worked with HD. Not sure about the all ports channel part.

By: mike

mike — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 19:35:07 +0000

To whom it may concern:
I have a tv tuner card, but I also have dish network? how an I to hook up the tuner card to make it work?

Thanks,
Mike

By: hardy singh

hardy singh — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 07:05:10 +0000

i have bought an philips internal tv tuner card and has been installed as described above however when i start it gives the error findinterface iid_iamtvtuner .can u pl help

By: Marshal

Marshal — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 23:27:41 +0000

Suppose we have pc tuner card & a Reciever.Is there anyway to tune sattelite via tuner(not just watching-in other word, able to surf among channnels by pc tuner)

By: The Guru

The Guru — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 03:00:54 +0000

If you no longer have the CD with the drivers for your TV tuner card, you can probably find them on the manufacturers website for download.

By: Andrei

Andrei — Sun, 20 Jan 2008 17:18:19 +0000

But what if don’t have the cd any more? what should i do then?

By: zxcasd

zxcasd — Wed, 26 Dec 2007 16:33:27 +0000

trevor, i believe you need TWO set-top boxes…. one per TV… the dish’s cable goes into a splitter…. two wires out… each wire to a set-top box and the box connects to your TV…..

otherwise…. if you only have one settop box, the box controls what you are watching…. meaning you can only watch one channel on both your TVs

By: trevor

trevor — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 03:11:06 +0000

I just bought a new WinTV-HVR-1600 card and installed it without a problem under XP. The next part I am not sure if I did correctly or not. I have Dish Network and have the cable coming from the transceiver to my DVD/VCR “in” and then from the DVD/VCR “out” I have a splitter with one cable going to the TV and the other going to my PC’s Win TV card. When I use the manager to scan for analog channels (I don’t HD TV) it only finds channel 4 and actually see the DVD that is in my DVD/VCR. Should I bypass the DVD player and go straight from the transceiver to the PC or does Dish Network not work with WinTV? Thanks for the help.

By: The Guru

The Guru — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 22:39:23 +0000

Yes you need to have cable.