I’ve always liked the ability to watch TV from my PC so I’ve always had TV cards (AverMedia and Hauppauge) and have all variations like USB, PCMCIA, PCI, but ever since we’ve gone digital all my old analog receiver cards have had to retire and are collecting dust so I’ve been on the lookout for a digital card for a while that doesn’t cost the earth.
Luckily I recently took a cheap gamble and it paid off. I bought the Crypto Hybrid TV PCI card currently available at Public (Nicosia) for just €20.00 and I was blown away because it works perfect and cost peanuts!
I’ve had cards in the past that cost 3 times as much and were buggy… especially from AverMedia, so I was laughing big time with this one!
It’s a full analog and digital MPEG4 (DVB-T) card which you can see and read about here…
http://www.e-shop.gr/product?id=PER.603540
So basically this card can scan and save analog and digital (DVB-T) TV channels from your home TV aerial.
You should get the latest driver from here… (don’t use the supplied CD)
http://www.cryptoelectronics.gr/common/downloads.aspx
…but not the player (software) because that’s the buggy TotalMedia v3.0 whereas you can download the much better TotalMedia v3.5 from SoftwareInformer or other download site.
Btw, if you have a better TV player (software) recommendation to make do post!
Good luck with everything and hurry while stocks last!
