RE: TFT monitor as TV

["Kevin Hawkins" <lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Andy Laurence [mailto:andy@xxxxxxx]
> Sent: 04 June 2004 19:00
> To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [ukha_d] TFT monitor as TV
>
> drownedrat wrote:
> > Wondered if anyone had tried any of the TV-VGA tuner
> boxes to use a
> > monitor as a TV? got a 15" TFT that would save a lot of
> room in the
> > bedroom if I could use it.
>
> No, but I'm about to implement old laptops as TVs ikn the
> smaller rooms.
> The plan is to use the Nebula Freeview card
> (http://www.nebula-electronics.com)
multicasting to
> clients around the house.  OK, and I may do a how-to for
> the group too (depending on how successful it is).


Andy - do check the 'old laptops' have enough horsepower to receive/decode
the multicast stream satisfactorily - and I'm sure you probably know this
but only the stations on the specific mutiplex that the DigiTV is tuned to
can be received on the multicast - but it does work, Maybe you are just
sending one channel though ? I believe later software will even allow
multiple Nebula cards each serving their own station or mux.  I strongly
recommend 100MBs Ethernet (or more) and good quality network switches,
maybe
you've already got a trial system running ?? I think the Nebula Digi TV
card
is great, a tad expensive and a little CPU intensive but very polished and
a
great picture !

K