TV Tuner for a Laptop

[tiwariG]

Hi All,
Can I watch TV on my Laptop....i mean can I connect a TV tuner card (obviously external) ....to my Laptop? If yes, then which one? Would b greatful if you can give me full specs.

Thanks

[theraven]

yup u can
look for any external tuner yaar
all external tuners ...( atleast the ones i know ) connect via the USB port
so all u need is a free usb port on ur lappy
check out pinnacle .. they have a decent solution !

[edit] u can look up specs and prices by a quick search on bazee
here ya go
http://www.baazee.com/static/Compute...ner_Cards.html

[AlienTech]

I have seen some PCMCIA card based tuners for around rs5000...

They should work better than the USB2 external tuners.

[freshseasons]

A Pixelview USB card i use with my laptop serves me fine...its not too costly as a PCMCIA based tv tuner card..Other thing tough remember,...you need atleast 1 Ghz Processor a 128 Mb ram and usb 2 To get decent frame rates on external USB Tv tuner card.
Hope this helps you

[mohsin_parwez]

Can you give me exact specs for that usb card please, cost and where can I aquire one for my laptop?

[AlienTech]

Its about rs5-6000

PixelView Play TV Pro TV Tuner Box with Remote

PixelView PlayTV USB pro provides the capability to watch TV, capture motion video images, snapshot still images, receive and display life videos by connecting to V8, Camera, Camcorder, VCR, VCD and DVD player. Also you can get Teletext data when watcheing TV.

It's designed for Notebook, Desktop PC with USB port and it supports hot plug & play and easy to use without opening your PC. PlayTV USB pro combines TV with your PC to save space and you will get more multimedia functions than a TV set.





Features

NT1004 USB decoder chip + SAA7113 video decoder chip

Supports hot plug & play with USB portFully PCI Rev 2.1 compliant and zero wait state PCI burst write.

Supports NTSC/PAL/SECAM TV system

125-channel cable TV reception

Full TV frequency range for CATV/VHF/UHF

Supports Video/S-Video input

Capture rate up to 30 frames per sec at CIF format (352 x 288 pixels).

Supports resizable video window size up to 640 x 480 pixels at VGA mode

Supports hardware & software snapshot

Video Conference ready

Video capture rate maximum 30 frames/ second. Video Conference ready

Supports decoded YUV 4:2:2 image inputs

[cool.crook]

why not buy a frontech external one 4 bout 2k

[freshseasons]

Originally Posted by cool.crook

why not buy a frontech external one 4 bout 2k

Really ! Does it have USB Connection to connect to LAPTOP.

[AlienTech]

The rs2000 external ones only let you connect a VGA type monitor upto it.
Both the USB and PCMCIA ones are over rs5000.