HD PVR 2 - with cable Converter

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hi

so i got dstv installed with the hd pvr 2 decoder in my main bedrooom. in my study i have a pc with an analouge tv card - so the installation dude told me he cant connect the decoder directly coz the signal is digital and the card is analouge. faitr enough i took his word and he installed a cable converter box that takes the rf in from the hd pvr and has an rf out which goes to the tv card. assuming all of this is correct now the main question - when scanning using the tv card software - do i select antenna or cable?? also it uses PAL I as default - is this correct? i just cannot get this thing to work im hoghly frustrated!!!!!!

Thanks.
 
Hi
I think antenna should work cause you're setting it up as another "tv", so the tuning should be the same. PAL is the correct format for us safa's.

Cheers,
 
Antenna should be correct, as stated above... but what the hell is the cable "converter" box, that converts RF to RF? Sounds extremely suspect...
 
Quantum Theory said:
Antenna should be correct, as stated above... but what the hell is the cable "converter" box, that converts RF to RF? Sounds extremely suspect...
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so basically the hd pvr 2 sends out a digital signal which the tv card can not understand - so to make it understand the cable converter takes in the digital signal (RF comming from the HD PVR 2 decoder) and outputs a analouge signal (RF going to my tv card). sound pretty reasonable to me....
 
*SynergyX* said:
so basically the hd pvr 2 sends out a digital signal which the tv card can not understand - so to make it understand the cable converter takes in the digital signal (RF comming from the HD PVR 2 decoder) and outputs a analouge signal (RF going to my tv card). sound pretty reasonable to me....
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It is not reasonable. The RF out on the HD decoder is analogue already (how do you think an old CRT TV tuner can tune to it?). Post a picture. I should be able to tell you what it is... and if it was necessary.
 
hmm quantum im at work at them moment pictures when i get home .....
though you made me think - maybe the cable convertor box is just to take the rf signal in and convert it to RCA - reason for this is coz the lcd doesnt have a normal rf in connection but only rcas and hdmi.


does that make more sense?
 
*SynergyX* said:
hmm quantum im at work at them moment pictures when i get home .....
though you made me think - maybe the cable convertor box is just to take the rf signal in and convert it to RCA - reason for this is coz the lcd doesnt have a normal rf in connection but only rcas and hdmi.


does that make more sense?
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So it is not going into a TV card, but straight into the LCD via composite (RCA)? If so, then it is a de-modulator, that converts RF to composite. You normally do not get a very good quality picture this way. Running an RCA cable from the composite out of the decoder, to the composite in of the screen, will give you better quality.
 
or i could just plug the RF into the tv card. right?

edit : i do have a tv card in the computer -- im sure of that lol
 
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