[ale] Recording TV shows?

[John Heim]

Ah! Now I'm getting excited. This could actually end up being way better 
than my old system. Hey, maybe somebody makes a converter box that talks.


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jim Kinney" <jim.kinney at gmail.com>
To: <ale at ale.org>
Sent: Wednesday, April 16, 2008 8:35 PM
Subject: Re: [ale] Recording TV shows?


> John,
> I would think that the digital tuner box would fit between your antennae 
> and
> the VCR so your current setup won't change.
> The digital broadcast will not affect cable as is it not over the air.
> The one converter I have looked at is from Best Buy and it has stereo 
> audio
> out ports.
>
> http://www.bestbuy.com/site/olspage.jsp?skuId=8624081&type=product&id=1199495190393
>
> Disclaimer: I pretty much despise Best Buy (and Wal Mart - another source
> for the $60 converter) and the Radio Shack version are not stereo sound 
> but
> mono only.
>
> On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 6:05 PM, John Heim <jheim at math.wisc.edu> wrote:
>
>> I'm blind and i want to record just the audio for certain TV shows. Right
>> now, I have a cable running from the audio-out on my VCR to the line-in 
>> on
>> the sound card of my linux box. I then use sox & oggenc to record the
>> shows
>> in ogg format.
>>
>> But in February 2008, this ain't gonna work because my VCR tuner won't
>> work.
>> I suppose I could by a converter box but that seems to be adding more
>> complexity to a system that is already rather unwieldy.
>>
>> Is there a simpler way? Can I get a digital TV tuner that connects
>> directly
>> to a USB port? Or maybe a converter box with an audio out?
>>
>>
>> Maybe I'm asking for the impossible. I thought about simply getting a TV
>> tuner card for inside the computer but I thought it would be impossible
>> for
>> a blind guy to configure.  It would have to have a  CUI setup program.
>> Linux
>> is great for using text files and command line programs. But for a TV
>> card?
>>
>>
>>
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>
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> James P. Kinney III
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