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    Asus G50V-A2

    Discussion in 'Asus' started by bobh, Sep 10, 2008.

  1. bobh

    bobh Notebook Guru

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    does the U.S version come with the HDTV internal tuner? and if so does it receive HD over the air signal? i see this in the description of some retailers.....("built-in Hybrid TV Tuner feature for wireless digital TV broadcasting and recording right out of the notebook")
    but yet they have the option of buying a external tuner.
    and if does not come with a internal TV tuner, will the notebook support a external over the air HDTV tuner to pick up digital signals?
    i sent to asus 3 days ago with no reply... so if it dosent is there a good affordable tuner card any one can recommend?
    thanks
    bob
     
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  2. ALLurGroceries

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    No, I just bought one and it doesn't come with the tuner. It has an external antenna connector, but it doesn't come with the antenna or any of the software and there is no hardware tuner. I'm not sure if it's actually connected to anything of if it's just an appendix. There is a G50Vt model that is listed on the ASUS support site, so I suspect that is the model to look out for. It's not anywhere I've seen yet.
     
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