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ati AIW 9600 - connecting tv coax cable to ATI (HOW)?
I can not find any info on how to connect the cable companies coax to
the ati 9600 AIW and watch tv. (or record from the cable companies DVR - device is 30+ feet away from the computer) What is the tv connector? input? or Output? Do I need another device to convert the coax to s-video or composit? I was able to get an ext. dvd player connected but that was thru the composit ports. TIA. |
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ati AIW 9600 - connecting tv coax cable to ATI (HOW)?
Does your card look like this one:
http://ati.amd.com/designpartners/me..._board_lrg.jpg On this card there is a threaded coax connector for the TV antenna. -- "War is the continuation of politics by other means. It can therefore be said that politics is war without bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed." "tdr" wrote in message ups.com... I can not find any info on how to connect the cable companies coax to the ati 9600 AIW and watch tv. (or record from the cable companies DVR - device is 30+ feet away from the computer) What is the tv connector? input? or Output? Do I need another device to convert the coax to s-video or composit? I was able to get an ext. dvd player connected but that was thru the composit ports. TIA. |
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ati AIW 9600 - connecting tv coax cable to ATI (HOW)?
"tdr" wrote in message
ups.com... I can not find any info on how to connect the cable companies coax to the ati 9600 AIW and watch tv. (or record from the cable companies DVR - device is 30+ feet away from the computer) What is the tv connector? input? or Output? Do I need another device to convert the coax to s-video or composit? I was able to get an ext. dvd player connected but that was thru the composit ports. TIA. Connectors are described in MMC*.PDF on the disc that came with your AIW. Basically the RF co-ax connector and the breakout box are input. Everything else is output. I have cable run directly to the co-ax connector for easy access to standard channels. Have S-Video&audio from the box to the breakout box for the best picture from the box and the RF out of the box is not stereo. 50ft S-Video cables are available. May need an amplifier. If you wanted to connect both the cable box and DVR to the AIW this way you'll have to get a S-Video & audio switch. The switch would make it more likely to need an amplifier. It's possible they make a switch/amplifier combo. Hope I understood your post correctly and this helps. |
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ati AIW 9600 - connecting tv coax cable to ATI (HOW)?
Thanks,
I found out what the problem was. I was trying to scan for channels thru the vcr, dvr, and cable box. with no luck. I needed to connect the "raw" cable (no devices on the wire) to the card first then scan for channels, once it found the channels, I then was able to connect the card to the DVR and see the signal for the DVR and VCR. T Shadow wrote: "tdr" wrote in message ups.com... I can not find any info on how to connect the cable companies coax to the ati 9600 AIW and watch tv. (or record from the cable companies DVR - device is 30+ feet away from the computer) What is the tv connector? input? or Output? Do I need another device to convert the coax to s-video or composit? I was able to get an ext. dvd player connected but that was thru the composit ports. TIA. Connectors are described in MMC*.PDF on the disc that came with your AIW. Basically the RF co-ax connector and the breakout box are input. Everything else is output. I have cable run directly to the co-ax connector for easy access to standard channels. Have S-Video&audio from the box to the breakout box for the best picture from the box and the RF out of the box is not stereo. 50ft S-Video cables are available. May need an amplifier. If you wanted to connect both the cable box and DVR to the AIW this way you'll have to get a S-Video & audio switch. The switch would make it more likely to need an amplifier. It's possible they make a switch/amplifier combo. Hope I understood your post correctly and this helps. |
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