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atct86 · #1 Post by **atct86** » Wed Feb 01, 2006 6:14 pm

I am trying to put off buying a TV for my dorm room. I was thinking about a 15" Sharp Aquos. Then I realized that my laptop is 14.1", and I could save longer to get a larger LCD.

I was wondering if there are any good Laptop TV tuners that I could buy instead? Possibly supporting RCA inputs and/or DVR capability.

Any feedback, reviews, or links to products would be helpful.

doppelfish · #2 Post by **doppelfish** » Thu Feb 02, 2006 7:47 am

Sorry for sounding snarky, atct86, but Aunt Google will deliver a ton of results when queried for "PCMCIA TV-card", "USB TV-card" or similar incantations. All you have to do is to pick out the few hits that lead to sites that actually sell such a card.

cheers,
-- fish

jhonyl · #3 Post by **jhonyl** » Thu Feb 02, 2006 9:24 am

continuing doppelfish -

And search reviews on these cards to see if they are any good. Search 'user reviews' to see what real customers thought of them.

arion · #4 Post by **arion** » Thu Feb 02, 2006 9:43 am

HDTV work very very weel on the T4x ThinkPads I had a thread below.

http://forum.thinkpads.com/viewtopic.ph ... highlight=

I am using the TinyUSB2 (aka TwinHan Beetle) HDTV via USB 2.0 works much better than in my PC with the Twinhan PCI DVB-T tuner. The ThinkPads DO support DxVA very well.

http://www.digitalnow.com.au/product_pa ... yusb2.html

Checkout this thread about the device.

http://www.dtvforum.info/index.php?s=91 ... opic=14878

To get 5.1 / 7.1 from my ThinPad I am going to get the Creative Audigy 2 ZS Notebook.

jongordo8 · #5 Post by **jongordo8** » Thu Feb 02, 2006 2:11 pm

Would you need an external HDTV tuner to get HDTV with this card?

I am just thinking about using it for HDTV while connected to my external monitor...however I don't know if I would be able to receive the HDTV signals from the antenna on the roof or not. Can anyone answer this.

Also would it look good on a thinkpad with 1024x768 res? Isn't HDTV a higher res?

atct86 · #6 Post by **atct86** » Thu Feb 02, 2006 3:49 pm

http://www.compusa.com/products/product ... tabtype=rb

I think I might go with this mainly for the software integration. I just dont know if I can attach an antenna to it

I also found this on ebay howver, it seems sketchy.

http://cgi.ebay.com/NEW-LAPTOP-TV-TUNER ... dZViewItem

mpcook · #7 Post by **mpcook** » Thu Feb 02, 2006 6:15 pm

I have an ULtraTV USB 300 which works very well. I can get signal off the airwaves, or connect it to my PVR and dump programs to my hard drive. I have had fun playing around with it, but don't really use it much because I have 3 TV's in the house and they're all bigger than my X31 screen anyway. Let me know if you have an interest, I might sell it. I just haven't gotten around to getting it onto Ebay.

-Mike

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