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Amiga computer related discussion => Amiga Hardware Issues and discussion => Topic started by: GreggBz on March 19, 2003, 07:13:21 AM

Title: Tuner cards and VGA boxes.
Post by: GreggBz on March 19, 2003, 07:13:21 AM
Has anyone experimented with using pc tv tuner cards to display your Amiga's PAL/NTSC signals on your pc's VGA monitor?

I'm interested in trying this. Right now I have a VGA Box by Innovation, which provides a VGA compatable signal at best, from RCA composite video input. It works with pal and ntsc signals. The picture quality is horrible.  Would a tuner card have a better picture? Would it work in full screen?
It would be cool to have my amiga running in one window with terminal program and then have pc terminal program sending the amiga files. =)  Hmm..  But I would want full screen and something that could handle pal and ntsc signals. I don't really need all the other amiga screenmodes.


Any suggestions? (keep in mind I'm not looking for a flickerfixer/scandoubler.. not neccasarily, i think it might be cheaper to get an ATI TV Wonder at best buy for my needs.
Title: Re: Tuner cards and VGA boxes.
Post by: Trooper on March 19, 2003, 08:56:28 AM
Hi,

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GreggBz wrote:
Has anyone experimented with using pc tv tuner cards to display your Amiga's PAL/NTSC signals on your pc's VGA monitor?

I'm interested in trying this. Right now I have a VGA Box by Innovation, which provides a VGA compatable signal at best, from RCA composite video input. It works with pal and ntsc signals. The picture quality is horrible.  Would a tuner card have a better picture? Would it work in full screen?
It would be cool to have my amiga running in one window with terminal program and then have pc terminal program sending the amiga files. =)  Hmm..  But I would want full screen and something that could handle pal and ntsc signals. I don't really need all the other amiga screenmodes.


Any suggestions? (keep in mind I'm not looking for a flickerfixer/scandoubler.. not neccasarily, i think it might be cheaper to get an ATI TV Wonder at best buy for my needs.
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I have a couple of amigas, And a couple of "cough, Pee Cee`s". I only have one decent sized monitor, And as one of my Pee Cee`s has a WinTV TV card in it i tried connecting my amigas to it via the cards composite connecter. All i have to say is that the quality is crap to say the least :-( , It`s even worse when used in fullscreen mode. You would probably get better results from using a cheap commodore 1084 monitor instead.

Just my thoughts, hope this helps.

Regards

Trooper
Title: Re: Tuner cards and VGA boxes.
Post by: GreggBz on March 19, 2003, 09:33:36 AM
Yep.. Ok.
The output from my VGA box is bad bad bad...
The explanation for which I found here (http://www.atarilabs.com/meat/2000/1201_videoprimer.shtml)
I guess the same thing is going on with those tv tuner cards.. basically..

Back to ebay for a scandoubler!