I've just obtained one of these USB Digital TV jobbies, to turn my laptop into a telly/pvr thing.

Come with a little breakout dongle which has lots of connections on it - RCA, S-Video, IR, 3.5mm audio....

I can't help wondering though, whats the point of having these as inputs?

As outputs, it might have been useful - out to a dvd burner or 42" plasma....

But as inputs???

Why would I want to hook up my HDD recorder to it? Why would you want to do it? I don't understand.....help....

If they're inputs, then maybe they're for allowing you to digitize analogue recordings (VHS, Non-DV Camcorder Tapes, etc etc)?

Yep, you can copy your holiday footage from the 90's onto your HD - how exciting.

I'm struggling to contain myself already at the prospect.....

well poo.

I just hooked up to the main aerial in the house. I reasoned that as the aerial had previously been upgraded for OnDigital/Freeview, it would be a cinch.

Re-scanned channels and .......

Nothing.

Nada.

Zip, Zero, Zilch.

I can pick up analogue signals, with a fair bit of crackling and inteference.

This, understandably, takes the edge off my gadget-joy.

Given the presence of sky, it's unlikely I can be bothered to have yet another aerial fitted to the outside of the house, so , anyone got ideas for strong indoor type dvb-t aerials?

what usb jobby did you get ?

Are you sure its dvb-t and not plain old analogue.

Terratec Cinergy XS T Analog/Digital.

It does come with a teeny little DVB aerial, but I left that at work because it only picks up half the channels smoothly - they do recommend attaching a biger aerial so thats what i was attempting to do - plus it meant I could ditch the portable telly:rolleyes:

Otherwise it's been faultless really.

should have tried a nebula digitv usb box , takes about 10 minutes to set up including loading software and channel searching etc ,you can record upto 7 channels at once , chip speed and HDD space dependent