Friday, October 15, 2004
That's a pity.After much messing around with wires, cables and whatnot, I've managed to hook both my vcr and freeview box into the WinTV widget.
Trouble is, even though it accepts the signal from the vcr, for reasons that elude me, it struggles to encode and display it. It's possible to watch a vhs movie on my monitor, but it stalls and stutters every 20 or 30 secs. It's not catastrophic, but it's not really good enough quality to bother recording the tapes digitally.
Oh well.
While messing around with the tuner, I stumbled across a whole load of scrambled channels on my cable, so went for a hunt around the net to see if I could find any descrambler software. Naughty, I know... but it's gotta be done. I found absolutely loads, and some seemed to do 'something', while others simply crashed or hung, but I couldn't find any that actually worked in any way that was gonna be useful.
It was worth a try though.
Labels: gadgets
Steve 8:19 PM [+]
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