I got my 2 coupons and used one for my old Sanyo. It works great. Can I get another converter box and stick the thing in my computer to make it a TV? I have no TV card in the computer now.

Until you said "I have no TV Card" I would have said yes......

You have to have something in your computer that accepts either RF channel 3/4 or composite/S-Video and audio inputs.

You will need at the very least a way to utilize the RF channel 3/4 output of the box or (if the box has it) the BaseBand-Composite/S-Video video output of a box.

The audio is no problem, a simple adapter will get it into the soundcard.

eBay is overflowing with simplistic capture cards at around $25 if you intention is to mearly watch ATSC over-the-air TV on a PC's monitor and capture (Timeshift/Commercial-Skip) to a hardrive.

OK, thanks. I'll go to the appropriate forum to check on how to proceed with a "normal" tv conversion for the pc.

Get a combo anaog/digital tuner card for your PC then you will be able receive either OTA or cable analog and digital OTA service and you will get the HD digital channels in HD not in SD which is what you would get with a coupon card converter box.

n4yqt, are you saying that I CAN do it, if I have those connections? Without a TV card? I have the following 5 unused connections on the back of the monitor. R G B H/V V. All 5 look like the same physical connector like was on the regular TV. The monitor is about 5 years old, a Samsung 700NF based on a Trinitron tube.

None of them will work. Look at the back of a standard TV and THOSE are what you need - and COLOR IS IMPORTANT ! The only RCA connection these CECBs support is COMPOSITE VIDEO. Some of them will also do S-Video.

As described, your PC and monitor are not capable of accepting the NTSC signal from a CECB.

A digital tuner card would be the best way to get video into your computer. It would probably cost less than buying an analog tuner/analog capture card plus a CECB with the coupon, and would perform better, giving you HD and allowing you to run it as a DVR. Just check the hardware requirements on the tuner card before you buy.

But if all you want to do is watch TV at standard definition in another room, the cheapest and easiest thing to do would be to pick up a second-hand analog TV to use with a CECB. You can probably get one with a screen bigger than your computer's for under $50, maybe even free from somebody who is upgrading to an HD set.

I posted a link above for FleaBay and it was remove by an admin.
I can respect that.
Perhaps I shouldn't suggest purchase points,
but I had found simplistic baseband composite input boards
for that were "Buy Now" for under $15 with S&H under $10.

An RCA to 1/8"-mini cord for audio is probably laying around.

An inexpensive solution for sure...But after thinking about it,
and with all the use I have gotten out of my tuner card.
I would like to change my suggestion to agree with the above too.

I found more than one Theater-650 chipset dual tuner cards
in the older PCI buss for under $75
One input for antenna, one for cable.
With cable dumping analog slowly in favour of digital signals,
the Clear-QAM feature has proved usefull for me also (TX).

I would like to advise buying a dual analog/digital card though.
Not just a digital card.
Only suggestion on features is this:
"Hardware MPEG-2 Encoder"
That will help with lesser powered PC's

Wait til May for the HVR-2250 (google it), it'll allow for recording of two shows at the same time..

"To support the popular analog and digital TV formats
used in North America, the WinTV-HVR-2250
supports NTSC analog cable TV, over the air ATSC
high definition digital TV plus clear QAM digital
cable TV."
"There are two complete TV receivers on the
WinTV-HVR-2250, which allow two programs
of any type to be watched, paused, or recorded
at the same time"

"Dual built-in hardware MPEG-2 encoders"

Pic:
http://www.hauppauge.com/site/press/presspictures/HVR-2250_board_angle.jpg

Press Release (PDF):
http://www.hauppauge.com/PDFs/Hauppauge_Dual%20tuner_PCIe.pdf



Nice :) Count me in

But Wolfee may be on a budget, and/or need something now...