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10-28-2003, 12:57 PM
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tv tuner with internal audio outputs
I have been trying to find a TV tuner that has internal audio outputs cause I have surround sound hooked up to my card and hate the idea of switching speaker jacks just to watch TV. I wrote Hauppauge and they said wintv radio had 1 but the audio out was only dbx stereo. Is there a tuner that has 5.1 surround output? I have the Turtle Beach Santa Cruz sound card. I also wrote to Turtle Beach but they didn't know much about them.
Any help would be great.
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10-28-2003, 01:22 PM
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10-28-2003, 07:51 PM
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I was hoping to get something better because I would be mostly paying for a pci graphics card. I already have a agp card in, I just need a really good TV tuner with the audio I need. I don't know if this is true but I read somewhere that the all in wonder cards are not really that good. compared the same model without the tuner.
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10-28-2003, 11:28 PM
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Well, at least I'm not aware of any analog channel that would send it's audio in 5.1 format.
They only send nicam stereo - so, having a 5.1 output in your tuner card would be pointless.
Most cards do, though, support dolby surround.
I don't know about dvb-c/t cards.
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10-29-2003, 12:18 PM
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TV tuners never have 5.1 sound output simply because the broadcast signal doesn't bring it into your house to begin with. Stereo, no more.
There are, or at least have been, PCI TV cards that do have internal audio headers. But first of all you'll have to check whether your sound card has an available internal aux-in header at all.
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10-29-2003, 12:25 PM
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Why don't you buy the TV Winxp Deluxe from newegg, all you have to do is plug in the sound out from the card to the line in, i have the turtle beach and i have my 5.1 and my card connected at the same time..
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10-29-2003, 12:27 PM
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you shouldnt have to switch jacks just to listen to tv. My tv tunner card has an external passthrough to the mic jack of my sound card. Basically, when the tv tunner is "on" the sound goes through my sound card and then through my speakers. When the tunner is "off" then the regular computer sounds just go through my speakers. No switching of the jacks required.
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10-29-2003, 12:30 PM
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it has an mono in, cd player in, aux in, a digital input and spdif input.
Ok, so I guess the sound card processes the signal to 5.1 then right?
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10-29-2003, 12:32 PM
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i get 5.1 on my tv card and turtle beach
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10-29-2003, 01:00 PM
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You can't get 5.1 channel audio from broadcast TV. Period.
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