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Originally Posted by ranjan2001
Does it mean that external tuners don't have recording facility for live tv? or may be they dont offer gud quality as the internal might do?
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External USB tuners have recording facility and as good as internal. That is not a problem. Even they have FM on them.
My interest is different, i.e. not intrested in recording live TV much but if available of good quality in external, won't mind. Why I don't want want to go for internal is simply because no protection for cable surge and don't want to fry my CPU by connecting cable to it through internal card.
I al also not worried about whether PC is required to be switched on or not for watching TV. Infact I want to use both of them. See here is what I meant: Switch on your PC and now your TV Tuner by remote and TV screen overlays your monitor and you listen to TV sound. Now you are watching TV while PC is on and PC display is behind TV display. Now consider that you want to get PC display on monitor and same time TV sound [in other way you want to work on PC while listening to cricket commentary], you can do this if your TV tuner remote has PC/TV button to switch between these modes. While say typing on computer say you learnt from commentary that Dada has hit six to Murali and you immediately want to see the replay, just press this sw PC/TV and you get TV display on monitor and TV sound was ofcourse already there.
I had Zenith TV tuner, which had this feature and now I have seen host of cheap TV tuners like Intex etc, these people even don't know about it forget alone of having it on their tuners.
Compro Videomate, PixelView, ATI Theater, Pinnacle are all available here in India though at little higher prices because they are available through ebay.in
ComproVideomate products are available in India through Mediatechindia.com and thier products can be reached for specifications at
www.comprousa.com
However difficult to decide, which one could be better suited to me.