Watching cable on PC via LeadTek WinFast 2000 Deluxe.

Wolfmaster · July 24th, 2003, 06:35 PM

Hi, New to this sort of thing......

i live in the UK and have Telewest Digital Cable. I bought a LeadTek tv card and although i can play avi movies through it, i'm not getting any cable pictures through.
The tv sits about 3 meters away from the pc and i have got the rf cable from the box linked up to an arial extension to reach the tv card. After fine tuning, all i get is flashing blue bars at various levels on the PVR screen.

Anyone know where i am going wrong?

scootmandoo · July 26th, 2003, 09:09 PM

maybe this is a language barrier but what is an "arial extension"

Wolfmaster · July 27th, 2003, 02:52 PM

Sorry, my bad, i mean the cable box is connected to an aerial extension lead which is connected to the wintv card.

BobOmega · July 27th, 2003, 03:00 PM

... is the card the one for the proper tv setting? NTSC, PAl ect...?

Wolfmaster · July 27th, 2003, 03:13 PM

Yes, the card is set for PAL.

sunxiaol · July 30th, 2003, 11:47 AM

is there a cable setting on the card? On my Hauppauge WinTV (I have Digital Cable in the states though), I had to change a setting from Cable to Cable-M, I'm not sure how the Leadtek software is though so I'm not sure if this will help.

Wolfmaster · September 8th, 2003, 09:46 AM

I haven that e to re-do my pc soon anyway, so when when that has been completed, i'll re-try with the TV card.

Thanx to all those who have helped, sorry i didnt reply sooner (very busy time with work).

Gait_Keeper · September 8th, 2003, 10:14 AM

I didn't know you could do that.

how is it supposed to work??
I knew you could send to your tv, but receive from it??