has anyone tried watching TV this way??

By using Satellite Direct TV software and hooking up your computer to the TV??
I am sick of my cable provider, they barely have any HD channels, and IMO with an LCD TV the regular channels don't look all that great....I honestly prefer to watch an old flat screen TV if I had to watch a regular non HD channel on an LCD TV. I have HBO and cinemax and only HBO east is in HD
But this satellite direct TV software has no free trial which is upsetting, I don't trust them when they say the quality is HD...And I am someone who really cares about quality, I rarely watch TV but when I do I prefer a good picture. The price is really good if it does what it claims, but I can't really be sure..so has anyone tried it or something like it?

I thought it was gonna be with a cat on the TV or around your neck or a tail across your eyes or something.

Sorry hun, I have no idea! :dK: Have you looked for ratings or forum discussion of it anywhere?

No - but mainly because hooking our desktops up to the tv to begin with would be difficult (living room is two rooms away).

I asked you before about what was in your pc... If your graphics card/chip isn't the type for it, you'll have to buy one that is.

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I thought it was gonna be with a cat on the TV or around your neck or a tail across your eyes or something.

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well with Jake it IS pretty hard to watch tV- he sits in front of the TV on the TV stand blocking the view ...he just loooves to be the center of attention ..

Originally Posted by strange_wings

No - but mainly because hooking our desktops up to the tv to begin with would be difficult (living room is two rooms away).

I asked you before about what was in your pc... If your graphics card/chip isn't the type for it, you'll have to buy one that is.

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I have a dell laptop that I typically use, so I just have the graphics card it came with, I don't even remember what that was because I bought it about a year ago and I looked then...but I was planning on using an older desktop that I no longer use and using it to be connected to the TV at all times..I may upgrade it if this service works but looking at it, it seems just too good to be true so I don't know..

You need a really fast PC with a lot of memory, and I wouldn't use that PC for any other purpose than for the satelite TV. TV broadcasts and the software that receives and play them use up a LOT of memory. And I mean a LOT.

I have something similar and the worst of it is during bad weather when the signal can't get thru the storm clouds.

^Exactly. You generally have to build a pc with use in mind. While it isn't that expensive to build one - look at it coming in just under $1k if you want to max out ram and get a good graphics card and motherboard that are specifically for it. (lots of older motherboard don't have the right headers that's on new graphics cards to let you do sound out over HDMI - people end up having to do pretty weird fixes or soldering right to the motherboard.)
If you do ever get into building your own pc for such use look into MythTV.

Considering cost, why not just get satalite with a DVR reciever?