[color=orange]I have a brand new 22” wide screen monitor for the office PC and a spare DirecTV (SD) box lying around the house. I have been thinking about turning the office PC into a quasi-HTPC by enabling satellite TV viewing on this machine for whenever there is a scheduling conflict between the missus and I over the living room TV. At 22” it will suffice nicely at 2 ½’.
Since I really don’t need the ability to record anything I’m looking for a simple “pass through” device that would allow me to feed the DirecTV signal through the PC without any sort of lag from having to read off of the HDD.
I thought about a device like the one linked below but, as I understand it, it still records to the HDD and I’d prefer to avoid that if possible.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16815306013
Assuming that some sort of device or dongle doesn’t exist to simply pass TV through the PC to the monitor then I might consider getting something like a HVR-1250 and GB-PVR and just have a second HTPC in the house.
Any ideas or suggestions?
Thanks in advance.
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