Digtial TV tuner for the Toughbook 28??

Has anyone found a digital TV tuner that will work with the 800mhz CF28?
Since I live in tornado central I'd like to be able to stay up to date with the weather junk. We have quite a few power outages and my old analog portable TV's will be obsolete next year. Trying to plan ahead. Any suggestions would be appreciated.

 

None of the cheaper, software-based digital tuners work very well with even a P4 2200 much less the slower-than-average CF-28 800 mhz units. I found that even playing DVD's with my 800 mhz Toughbook could be touch and go. (Especially concert videos)...

It might seem awkward, but the only digital tuners that seem to function, are the external boxes like Diamond and a few others offer. None cheap, like in the 150 buck range.

It might be alot cheaper to just order one of those 40 buck rebate cards and buy a Motorola Digital Tuner from Wally World for you old TV set. They work well on line-of-sight but ain't at all good if there's an obstruction (tree, building) near by. For example, I've got trees between me and Greenville, SC, 38 miles to the Northwest. Nothing. However, I'm 125 miles from Charlotte, which is clear view from the Northeast and I get a great signal.
I've heard some cases of signals being captured from as much as 800 miles away in the Plain States.

An 800 mhz Toughbook wasn't meant for anything but Police/Fire/Military information gathering. They're not that hot with video or gaming. I was even disappointed with Surfing even after upgrading the memory (temporarily) to 512 and swapping out to a faster laptop drive. My new-er unit is a CF-48 that isn't as "tuff" but seems a goodly bit faster.

 

To be fair, the 28 was released at the same time as the 47, not the 48. The 48 did come out while the 28 was still for sale, but you are comparing machines that were made two years apart.

If you wanted a gaming machine, you missed the plot completely, because Toughbooks have a small GPU.

In either direction, you'll be hard pressed to tell us that our 28's are worthless

 

This one works well in 640x480 on my 600Mhz Fujitsu-Laptop: Geniatech DVB-T Stick HDTV USB 2.0 DVBT Timeshift (ebay nr. 350055927989).

 

Gaming? I'm not even sure what that is. Slot machines in Vegas? If nothing will work, it won't work. Thanks for the replies.

 

What are you using to play DVDs? Hopefully not that bloated junk that MS offers. I have had real good luck with media player classic.. even my CF27 PII-333 does a decent job with that!

 

I've used VLC on my toughbook for DVD playing action and it worked, but I only did it once. Very rarely am I somewhere with my laptop that calls for a movie, and I can't play it somewhere else. Mine is almost all business, and very little play while it's in use.

 

I have been using Media Player Classic to watch DVD on my CF-28 while on the boat. Works great. Sound is a little week. Need to find a way to get the sound to my stereo.