I remember using my first paycheck after high school to buy an AWE 64 sound card.

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I remember using my first paycheck after high school to buy an AWE 64 sound card.

I don't remember the brand, but I remember when I bought a
card that was an FM radio. :-)



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Re: Re: creative labs
By: jimmylogan to Matthew Munson on Sat Oct 04 2025 04:20 pm

I remember using my first paycheck after high school to buy an AWE 64 sound card.

I don't remember the brand, but I remember when I bought a
card that was an FM radio. :-)

I once bought a TV card for my PC. Never even plugged it in but it is still around here somewhere...

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Re: Re: creative labs
By: Bf2k+ to jimmylogan on Sat Oct 04 2025 08:13 pm

I don't remember the brand, but I remember when I bought a card that
was an FM radio. :-)

I once bought a TV card for my PC. Never even plugged it in but it is
still around here somewhere...

i had a radio card and a tv card. they both worked like shit.
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Re: Re: creative labs
By: MRO to Bf2k+ on Sat Oct 04 2025 10:38 pm

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I once bought a TV card for my PC. Never even plugged it in but it is still
around here somewhere...

i had a radio card and a tv card. they both worked like shit.

20+ years ago I had a couple TV tuner cards in a media PC, and my cable company at the time worked with me so I had the right devices so I could record whatever I wanted from TV.

Then the TiVo started to become popular, and the cable company started to "rent" their own DVR devices, so support for doing crazy shit like that ended, because it didn't make them any money.

Google bought up the company that produced the TV Tuner/media software I used (SageTV) and buried it. They didn't incorporate any of its features into anything, they just stopped allowing it to be updated or downloaded in any form.

I would have loved to see what that software would have turned into over the past couple decades.

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Re: Re: creative labs
By: MRO to Bf2k+ on Sat Oct 04 2025 10:38 pm

i had a radio card and a tv card. they both worked like shit.

I bought a TV/radio card for my PC in 1999 which didn't work very well. But now I have a TV tuner card in my Linux media server PC which I use with Plex, and it works very well. I also have a network TV tuner, a HDHomerun Flex 4K, and it also works well.

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Re: Re: creative labs
By: MRO to Bf2k+ on Sat Oct 04 2025 10:38 pm

i had a radio card and a tv card. they both worked like shit.

I bought a TV/radio card for my PC in 1999 which didn't work very well. But now I have a TV tuner card in my Linux media server PC which I use with Plex, and it works very well. I also have a network TV tuner, a HDHomerun Flex 4K, and it also works well.

i've always liked tv cards. even wrote a (somewhat embarrassing) article for the OS/2 eZine about using a wintv card in OS/2:

http://www.os2ezine.com/20010316/cinema2.html

i still kinda wanna get another one.. and maybe when i sort out my ham radio antenna i can throw a tv one up there too ;)

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