TonyStill
5/3/04 5:49PM |
This looks fun.
Like many others, I suspect, I have no aerial available near my Iyonix. Can anyone comment on how good a signal is needed to get a usable picture. Would I get away with an indoor aerial sitting on a shelf above the computer? I know the answer to this is 'it depends' but what experience do people have? |
monkeyson
5/3/04 5:56PM |
I bought the cheapest aerial Curry's could provide. It works quite well for BBC1, BBC2, ITV and Channel 4, (when oriented correctly) but it's a struggle to get much of a picture from Five. Perhaps a better aerial, or one with a powered signal booster, may help. I live in Leeds, which normally gets a good reception. |
Boroboy
5/3/04 6:00PM |
I have mine connected through a split signal from my digibox downstairs, and then boosted on its way into the card. I have to say the picture is excellent, whether it is the satellite signal or the terestrial one. A fantastic product. Well done Simon.
And Robin's remote utility is neat too. |
epistaxsis@work
5/3/04 6:09PM |
finally got my order confirmation from pinacle today - my card should be here soon 
<reads email...>
2-10 days...
so I wont be fitting that during my Iyonix recasing this weekend
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christ
5/3/04 6:13PM |
Reception's fine here, with a an el cheapo indoor aerial (outskirts of Leeds). It was better in the next room, before we fitted out the new office, but it just needs a longer lead.
Screengrab here:
http://www.photodesk.iconbar.com/status/tvcard.jpg |
bucksboy
5/3/04 6:15PM |
Will this PCITV card fit in the x100? If not, is there a plan to produce one?
cheers
George |
Smiler
5/3/04 7:31PM |
In reply to bucksboy:
Surely that depends on the card you get? Castle ddn't say anything about removing the PCI bus; only the podules. The case is standard mini-ATX desktop standard, and you can usually get three PCI cards in those (I think). |
monkeyson (+0.5)
5/3/04 8:56PM |
I've provided some more screenshots here: http://www.iconbar.com/news/pcitv/ |
ksattic
5/3/04 9:44PM |
When PCITV gets proper frame-grabbing support, the image quality of captured images will increase because it will combine fields correctly to produce an entire frame. The picture quality is a lot better than captured images would have you believe - when viewing TV, there are a lot of artifacts caused by signal quality and interference that may only show up in single frames, so when 25 (or 30) are shown per second, the quality seems to improve dramatically. Also, computer monitors are a lot sharper than TVs. TVs tend to blur poor images and make them seem higher quality. |
TonyStill
5/3/04 10:24PM |
Thanks all for the screen shots and aerial info - encouraging.
As to the X100: Last Saturday at the SW Show Jack L said that the PCI slots were still there but not the Podule slots. The latter are lost because there's no physical space for the backplane and cards. He did imply that there were some size restrictions around the PCI cards but I'm afraid the actual terminology meant nothing to me (WINTEL stuff, don't you know  ). |
ksattic
5/3/04 10:28PM |
Pinnacle do a half-width TV card. However, the metal back of the PCI card which has the connectors on is full width. I've seen some PCs with space for proper half-width PCI cards only, including the metal back. |
bucksboy
6/3/04 10:15AM |
To Smiler & Tony Still:
To quote from the Castle press release on the X100: '...future expansion is catered for by two low-profile PCI expansion slots...' Presumably this means a physically different (smaller) PCITV card is required. |
john
6/3/04 1:42PM |
PCI cards can be super long, presumably low profile means you can only use the ones the same length as the connector. Also are those slots filled with video card and USB? PCI cards can go all the way from the back of the case to the front, where there are guide rails on many cases. A bit like the old double width podules. Podules always seem more robust connector and backplate wise, but that is one thing PCI cards have a nice solution for - short IDE poduls always seem a bit wobbly. |
ajpullan
6/3/04 3:04PM |
Actually low profile PCI cards dont stick up as much from the PCI socket they can be the same length as any other PCI card. |
bluenose
6/3/04 4:57PM |
Great news on what hopefully is the first of many available PCI card upgrades. Well done Simon for getting this out to market. I have a Iyonix with two CDDrives in and read somewhere that additional PCI cards obstruct the sound inputs to the motherboard , is anyone able to verify this?. Still I only need one sound input and hopefully when the DVD software becomes available and we get a fast enconder i'll be able to convert my home video's to VideoCd or DVD. |
epistaxsis@work (+0.1)
6/3/04 5:43PM |
as to the issue with the X100 - the situation is this:
it uses a slimline PC case.
it needs to use 1/2 height PCI2.x cards.
If there is a TV card available that conforms to this physical standard (and the limits of PCITV) then it will fit.
I am waiting for my TV card to arrive - if it is 1/2 height then I'll let you know.
btw my 64MB xfx graphics card and the USB card in my Iyonix are both 1/2 height...
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Chimpy (-1.0)
10/3/04 4:21PM |
Only 7 years after the first 848 cards for the PC then. All is not lost. |
epistaxsis@work
10/3/04 8:32PM |
Cards here
it's a full height one so that'll preclude the X100...
I had wondered about those inputs fouling.
will be fitting this weekend - if my TRM comes...
probably a :smash:  |
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