Digital TV cards
Friday, July 28, 2006
I bought a new computer last year, a Shuttle SN25P with an AMD dual-core CPU (4200+), a couple of WD Raptor 10,000rpm SATA drives and a Dell 24" LCD monitor - geek heaven! Runs Windows and Gentoo Linux real quick.
It has one spare PCI-e slot, and I've long thought that I'd put a digital HDTV card in it. The monitor has enough resolution to display 1080i in all its glory.
I finally got around to looking into it this past week and started researching what is available. The first thing I found was that there are not many PCI-e DTV cards around yet. After lots of googling and reading forums, I decided on the Terratec Cinergy 2400i DT. There is no Australian distributor, so I've just ordered it directly from Terratec in Germany.
Despite the lack of information on the Terratec web-site, I gather that it does work in Australia and it does do HD (the Germans seem to take this as a given). My only concern is that it fits. I've read some suggestions that it might be a bit tight in the SN25P as it sits up against the graphics card. I have only a modest graphics card (Nvidia 6200TC) which doesn't even have a fan, so hopefully should be OK.
Stay tuned... (pun intended).
posted by bj @ 5:04 pm,
