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NewsForge: Watch TV on Your Linux Computer

[ Thanks to Jason
Greenwood
for this link. ]

“Wouldn’t it be nice to sit at your Linux machine and have a
crisp little color TV screen right there in one of your desktop
windows? Using a cheapo TV tuner card, you can get great picture
and sound quality on anything from an old 133 MHz Pentium on up.
The hardware requirements, at $20 for a TV card after rebates, are
pretty modest, and the payoff is a lot of fun…

“Obviously, you can put a TV card in a more current desktop
machine and be quite happy. I’ve found that the main factors
influencing performance are video memory, followed by main memory.
Increasing video memory allows for a larger TV window on the screen
and better picture quality…”

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Story

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