which PC card needed to receive Dish?

[Win Theone]

My desk is getting crowded.
Is there a video card to insert into a PCIexpress slot that anyone would recommend so that I can use one of my monitors to receive DishNetwork and eliminate the small tv set from the desktop area?

I am currently running two Dells (Vostro 220 and Vostro 200) into a Belkin Coupler and wireless router. There is co-ax serving the small tv so I already have the Dish wiring there to the desk.

I would like to receive Dish tv on one of the monitors.
SD is fine... don't need HD....

I'm seeking recommendations for a vid card.

thanks
Win

 

[Lord_Vader]

I would think almost any TV tuner card would be fine. You would just tune it to the same channel and use it like the TV you have now.

 

[Lord_Vader]

I was just looking at this one yesterday.

Newegg.com - ASUS My Cinema-PE9400 Combo TV Tuner Card w/Low Profile Brackets - TV Tuners & Video Devices

I've been thinking about doing the same thing. ( Watching TV on the spare monitor. )

You don't really need a "combo" card, but it would allow you do other things in the future if you wanted. (OTA, FM, ...etc)

 

[garys]

You still need the Dish receiver hooking outputs to the inputs of the card.

 

[Racehorse]

garys
anything special to which you're making reference?
I have a similar need to Win, along with Lord Vader, and I'm not sure that with a tv already running dish output there handy would I need anything else to hookup to the vid card?

 

[Smith P.]

You still need the Dish receiver hooking outputs to the inputs of the card.

If you'll read OP post:

"There is co-ax serving the small tv so I already have the Dish wiring there to the desk"

WT,
You better use S-Video cable to new video capture card.
What distance between your desk and that Dish box ? Is it possible to drop new cables ?

 

[Lord_Vader]

The TV tuner card would act like a SDTV in this case. You would backfeed the TV2 out from your DVR or just hook up a receiver to the input on the card just like the tv thats there now.

 

[Smith P.]

He would spend less and get better picture on PC monitor, if he will buy simple video capture card with S-Video input and run the S-Video cable from his Dish box.

 

[thedamaja]

I'm planning on setting up an office in a spare bedroom and was looking at picking up one of these samsung monitors to double as a monitor and TV

Newegg.com - SAMSUNG ToC T220HD Rose Black 22" 5ms HDMI Widescreen HDTV Monitor 300 cd/m2 DC 10000:1 Built in DTV Tuner & Dolby Digital Surround Speakers - LCD Monitors

More expensive than a video card but, figured I'd throw it out there.

 

[Lord_Vader]

How will you feed the signal? Directly from a Dish reciever (either in the room or remote)? Or from a TV2 backfeed?

 

[TalonDancer]

My desk is getting crowded.
Is there a video card to insert into a PCIexpress slot that anyone would recommend so that I can use one of my monitors to receive DishNetwork and eliminate the small tv set from the desktop area?

I am currently running two Dells (Vostro 220 and Vostro 200) into a Belkin Coupler and wireless router. There is co-ax serving the small tv so I already have the Dish wiring there to the desk.

I would like to receive Dish tv on one of the monitors.
SD is fine... don't need HD....

I'm seeking recommendations for a vid card.

thanks
Win

The real question is what monitor are you running? If you are running a DELL LCD monitor, it is likely that you can just plug the Dish ViP 622, 722 etc in as a 2nd input. The computer is completely unimportant

FWIW we use a Dell 24" LCD monitor as our "HD TV" hooked up to our ViP 622.

Talon Dancer

 

[bebop]

The real question is what monitor are you running? If you are running a DELL LCD monitor, it is likely that you can just plug the Dish ViP 622, 722 etc in as a 2nd input. The computer is completely unimportant

FWIW we use a Dell 24" LCD monitor as our "HD TV" hooked up to our ViP 622.

Talon Dancer

Great point. I use an Acer LCD monitor for my computer and have a 2nd input to it from my sat receiver (via HDMI to DVI adapter). I have to set my receiver to 720p instead of 1080i when I want to watch it on my computer montior, but that only takes about 5 button presses on the remote. If I had a better monitor to begin with, I probably wouldn't have to do anything except change which input I'm viewing on the monitor.

That only gets video, so I ran the extra audio out from the satellite receiver to the comptuer speakers (with a $2 adapter from monoprice) and I can easily change between comptuer or satellite in my office. It was just a couple cables and adapters if you have the right monitor (under $20 for me).

 

[TalonDancer]

.....If I had a better monitor to begin with, I probably wouldn't have to do anything except change which input I'm viewing on the monitor. ....

Space is at a premium in our small cabin. So we got a Dell 24in monitor capable of 1080i on component. For quite a while it was my wife's computer screen and our HD TV. We only had to switch the video input on the Dell. The sound is plugged into our stereo system. When she got a iMac (with a built in screen), we just converted the old Dell into our full time HD TV

Talon Dancer