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    Need advice o a TV tuner

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by jars1530, Oct 2, 2007.

  1. jars1530

    jars1530 Notebook Enthusiast

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    My TV in the bedroom recently broke ( dropped it one night) and would like to use my laptop to watch TV. I want to be able to plug the cable from the wall and watch cable shows from bed without having to get up to change the channel. I was looking into buying the Hauppauge WinTV-PVR-USB2 but herd that USB tuners give you lower FPS and Tv signal quality is not that great. Any advice or reviews on this tuner or others would be great!!!

    HP Pavilion dv6449us
    -AMD Turion 64 X2 TL-56 512KB+512KB L2 Cache (1.8 GHz)
    -15.4" WXGA High-Definition Brightview Widescreen
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    ERL Notebook Guru

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    Well, I dunno about the new one that doesn't require drivers and has built in memory for recording, but the small USB Pinnacle HDTV one sucks.
     
    ERL, Oct 2, 2007
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  3. vshade

    vshade Notebook Evangelist

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    I like the HP's Express card tv tuner
     
    vshade, Oct 2, 2007
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    jars1530 Notebook Enthusiast

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    con you connect a coaxial cable to it. I've seen pics and it doesnt look like it has an outlet for it. I could be wrong though.
     
    jars1530, Oct 2, 2007
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    vshade Notebook Evangelist

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    It have a small hole where you put a cable that interfaces with the coaxial one
     
    vshade, Oct 2, 2007
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    kanehi Notebook Deity

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    If you have wireless get a Slingbox and you can watch anytime and anywhere where there's a hi-speed connection, even when you travel.
     
    kanehi, Oct 3, 2007
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