[opendtv] Re: 20060726 Wolfsson's Wednesday Words (Mark's Monday Memo)
- From: Kon Wilms <kon@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2006 07:23:05 -0700
This device uses standard directshow drivers with VMR rendering. Any
extra requirements are due to defective software i.e. MCE. And you
absolutely do not need MCE for it to work.
I wonder if it exposes the transport pins? :) Still, the price doesn't
really make it interesting enough to waste 90 bucks on in order to find
out.
Does anyone know how the chipset in this performs?
Cheers
Kon
On Thu, 2006-07-27 at 09:16 -0400, John Shutt wrote:
> Mark Schubin wrote:
>
> - Artec's T14A is a tiny USB ATSC receiver for $89, including antenna:
> <http://www.artec.com.tw/ehtm/be124.htm>
> This story says, "You'll also need an analog TV tuner installed on your
> machine":
> <http://www.mobilemag.com/content/100/334/C8775/>
>
>
> The article in mobile mag left out a bit when re-writing the original
> Gizmodo article:
>
> "It includes Windows XP Media Center Edition drivers, but keep in mind, if
> you want to use that, you'll also need a separate analog TV tuner installed.
> It's $89 with free shipping. There must be a catch. This we gotta try."
>
> So it sounds like you need the analog tuner card for WinMCE to be happy,
> although one reviewer at PC Alchemy said he got it to work on his laptop
> with WinMCE but no analog tuner.
>
> Reviews of the unit are not encouraging, although the effort is definately a
> step in the right direction.
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