FRONTECH tv tuner card - stuck lost - urgent help needed

FRONTECH tv tuner card - stuck lost - urgent help needed

hi guys friends and buddies........

A good news for me and also a bad news for me (not so bad bcz u poeple r there)

My uncle recently purchased a computer and for some reason he did not like his tuner tv card...

So obviously guess who got it...well me..

(Note I have never seen or used Tv tuner card before in my life)

It had written frontech on it (possibly an Internal TV tuner card) and is now inside my pc....(but has no remote with it)

Also there is one Tv tuner card (which is possibly external tv tuner card) callled frontech JIL 0608 with a remote....along with it it also has a small red cable...

Now I am unable to figure out where to start and how....

ALL i want is to be able to see cable TV on my PC (which is in my room) instead of normal TV which is in common room.

But how do i start and how should i go about it...????????

1. How do i make a connection from TV ( which has cable connection) to my PC????

2. In order to see TV on PC which one to use, Internal or External one?????

3. How do I record programs for later viewing???

4. I have CD writer/reader on my PC...do i also need DVD writer /reader for recording and how much it costs????

5. Will having DVD be any better than my CD or hard disk (40 GB)????

6. Any other hardware / software which I am missing????

7. I have one cheap 300 rupees speaker...is it sufficient???

I know few questions of me above sound stupid....but trust me when it comes to technology (no matter how simple) I am truly idiot and my brain is unable to understand anything of its own.

Since many poeple on this forum must have been using TV tuner card (might be some even frontech one); plz guide me in simple step by step fashion as there is no manual for this product and the website ( www frontechonline com ) has absolutely no information).......

(also one thing is frontech tv tuner card worst of the kind or is it reasonably good enough compared to other Tv tuner cards)???????

Again I will be really really thankful for ur effort in replying as I am stuck....

(Is there also FM in my tuner card and how do i know this?????????)

best regards,

cheers

sunando

sunandoghosh at rediffmail dot com

please also note: i am using windows xp with p four intel 865GBF

p.s. I am attaching here picture of (most probably) external tv tuner card and remote exactly....

http://img187.echo.cx/img187/9053/possibleexternaltvtunercard6kr.jpg

I have no picture (possibly internal tv tuner card inside my computer)of internal tv tuner card (which is without any remote; dont know either whether there should be any remote with it or not)...

 

1. Buy a splitter for the TV cable and split the cable in the common room so that one still goes to your common room tv and the other one to your room.

2. You either use an internal tv tuner card or one external, not both at the same time. Which one you choose is entirely up to you.

3. You should get a cd with some software needed to use the tuner card. There are drivers and a software that you need to have installed to be able to watch or record tv.

4. You don't need any type of recording unit other than some hard drive space if you want to record, but it could be a good idea to get a CD or a DVD writer if you want to save the programs you record. It takes up a lot of disk space so unless you will delete what you record after you've watched it, use your CD-RW or get a DVD-RW. Don't know the prices in the US but I'd guess from somewhere around $100 and above.

5. You decide yourself depending on how much you wanna record.

6. As I said, what you need is drivers and some kind of software for watching tv. I don't know what this tuner card came with but my ASUS card had ASUS Home Theater bundled.

7. What speakers you have only affects your experience when watching, it has nothing to do with using the card so use any speakers you like.

About what software and stuff you should use, find out what make your tuner card is and refer to the makers site to find out what you need.

 

1. Buy a splitter for the TV cable and split the cable in the common room so that one still goes to your common room tv and the other one to your room.

2. You either use an internal tv tuner card or one external, not both at the same time. Which one you choose is entirely up to you.

3. You should get a cd with some software needed to use the tuner card. There are drivers and a software that you need to have installed to be able to watch or record tv.

4. You don't need any type of recording unit other than some hard drive space if you want to record, but it could be a good idea to get a CD or a DVD writer if you want to save the programs you record. It takes up a lot of disk space so unless you will delete what you record after you've watched it, use your CD-RW or get a DVD-RW. Don't know the prices in the US but I'd guess from somewhere around $100 and above.

5. You decide yourself depending on how much you wanna record.

6. As I said, what you need is drivers and some kind of software for watching tv. I don't know what this tuner card came with but my ASUS card had ASUS Home Theater bundled.

7. What speakers you have only affects your experience when watching, it has nothing to do with using the card so use any speakers you like.

About what software and stuff you should use, find out what make your tuner card is and refer to the makers site to find out what you need.[/QUOTE]

 

Please don't dig up such old threads, this one is over a year old.