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Western Europe NTSC analogue TV capture card (with Win 10 support)

Covers: Germany, France, UK, Netherlands, Belgium, Austria, Switzerland, Luxembourg, Monaco and Liechtenstein
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Folks,

Looking to buy or a recommendation for an NTSC (I'll take ATSC if it also supports US Analogue NTSC) card - must be supported under Windows 10 if possible too please.
Would also be interested in USB variants as long as it's also supported under Windows 10.

Thanks
 
I know Bt848/878 cards have win7/8.1 drivers that work in win10. Aka Flyview tv / Lifeview tv etc. Will need a free PCI slot.
 
Oh that's not going to be fun.
All the RF capture devices I know of are from the early to mid 2010's before the big ATSC switchover. Most places replaced analog cable not long after. By the time Windows 10 came out RF as a video input was basically impossible to find on new products and like mentioned you will find a lot of drivers state windows 7 and 8 but not 10.
Twolazy has one suggestion. My suggestion are things like https://www.ebay.com/itm/192594381744, but those are cheap and janky. I'd try seeing if you can get your hands on an RF demodulator so then you have a composite video which is a lot easier to get windows 10 capture device for.
 
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I have managed to get a Hauppage HVR 1250 ATSC and QAM PCI express card that is also supposed to cover good old old analogue NTSC too but I'm having a terrible time trying to get it to 'tune' with VLC.
Sound seems fine but video quality is terrible - anyone out there a VLC settings expert ?. I'm in the UK but selecting country code 01 for USA NTSC_M but unable acquire a steady picture.

Alternatively, as I suspect VLC may not be up to scratch, can any suggest some Windows 10 software (that isn't WinTV) that plays nicely with analogue tuners for me to try please ?

Thanks
 
Outside of the TV mode in XP Media Center and the old ATI TV Wonder (which had its own special XP MCE driver) I've never managed to get tuners to behave correctly under Windows unless you used the official program it came bundled with. VLC and capture devices (moreso if you want synchronized audio) is a crapshoot.
 
FWIW, I got the Hauppage HVR 1250 working but the analogue picture quality is terrible - to the point of being unusable.
The noise / colour speckles persist even without a source connected to the noise seems to be inherent in the card itself. It transpires that VLC noise filters actually gave a better outcome than WinTV itself but still nowhere near acceptable.

Plan B it is.
 
Right. The little Chinese sourced RF to HDMI box of tricks works a treat. Hardest task was getting from the Chinese menu to the English version.
So this NTSC 'heavy sixer' Atari VCS is working quite happily here in the UK through the converter.

This is enough testing for me to be sure I can go ahead with the composite output mod on the Atari.

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Yes, they are a common chipset used on alot of TV tuners, aka Brooktree 848 or 878. I have a few of them, ones a Flyview Platnium, another is a Lifeview TV something and a Hauppage Wintv.

Still use them now and then to digitize old VHS tapes.
 
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