Wednesday, January 23, 2008

TV is cheap

Once we've gotten the ArgoCam to communicate with its receiver, we'll need a computer to acquire that feed so that it can be streamed directly to your face via teh intarwebs. Since the camera is designed to work with a standard analog TV, this can be done with a tuner card without much hassle.

After an extremely brief search (find all TV cards and arrange by increasing price), I placed an order last night for a vanilla Sabrent TV tuner card. I have never heard of these guys before, but they had the cheapest card available at $20 plus shipping. It should be pretty tough to screw up an analog TV tuner, so I'm not worried about its cheapness. I suppose it could potentially affect image quality, but we have a low-quality video source to begin with anyway.

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