Thursday, October 14, 2004
Ahhh, how I love gadgets, widgets and toys.Today's toy is WinTV USB. A little tv tuner that plugs into a usb socket on my pc, so I can watch (and record) tv programs on my monitor.
Yeah, I know... it's old hat and they've been doing it for ages, and yeah, I could get a PCI card to do the same thing and look much more tidy, but since I only have one free PCI slot, I dont wanna use it for something I could do externally.
Why would I wanna watch tv on my monitor, I hear you ask? Well, I don't, specifically, though it's a nice bonus. What I wanna do is copy all my vhs videos onto disk... either on my HD (gonna need to get a BIG slave drive, coz 200 gig ain't gonna be enough) or burned to dvd.
You've never seen my video collection, but believe me when I say it's rather extensive, and as such, takes up a lot of space. The idea of saving all those films onto one big HD, or even a load of DVDs is very appealing when you realise how much living space it would free up in my flat.
Time to go look for a 500 gig HD, methinks.
Labels: gadgets
Steve 11:27 PM [+]
Comments:
Post a Comment
The Benway Empire |
 |