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Old 02-10-2006, 10:30 AM
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Adding HD Card A180
I'm going to add an HD card to my SageTV system. I currently am running a Samsung DLP that does not have a tuner, what I'm wondering is if I add the AverMedia A180 card that I will be able to watch HDTV even though my TV doesn't have a tuner?

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Old 02-10-2006, 10:42 AM
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The A180 is the tuner. All you'd need is to have your video output sent to your TV.
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Old 02-10-2006, 10:47 AM
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The A180 is the tuner. All you'd need is to have your video output sent to your TV.
That's great news. That's whay I thought, but I wanted to make certain before I moved forward!

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Old 02-10-2006, 10:50 AM
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Just for clarification.....an HDTV set with a built in tuner means that you wouldn't need any additional hardware to view OTA HD content on your TV set, except of course for an antenna.
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Old 02-10-2006, 12:11 PM
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In addition to the HD-Capable capture card, you will need a video card that has an appropraiate connector for your HD TV.

To clarify - you can't get HD video using an S-Video or Composite (Single RCA plug) cable. You can get HD-quality using the VGA or DVI connector on most video cards, but most TV's don't have VGA jacks and many don't have DVI jacks. Componant (3-connector RCA plugs) and HDMI also support HD, but you have to make sure both your TV and your video card have matching connectors available.
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Old 02-10-2006, 02:25 PM
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In addition to the HD-Capable capture card, you will need a video card that has an appropraiate connector for your HD TV.

To clarify - you can't get HD video using an S-Video or Composite (Single RCA plug) cable. You can get HD-quality using the VGA or DVI connector on most video cards, but most TV's don't have VGA jacks and many don't have DVI jacks. Componant (3-connector RCA plugs) and HDMI also support HD, but you have to make sure both your TV and your video card have matching connectors available.
Thanks Tiki for the heads up. I have a 6800 class video card which has a DVI cable connected to it. I actually already get HDTV through my firewire connection, but that has slowly but surely ben 5C'd so it was time for me to change. I also had problems with it sometime not recording. <sigh>
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