What is the best TV tuner?
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Depends what you want to do. The best tuner card with PVR fucntionality it the Hauppauge PVR350. They have a dual tuner card (PVR500) as well. The PVR 150 is the most affordable of the PVR series retailing around $100. A basic tuner card for just watching TV (you'll have recording capability too but the load will be on the CPU) will be between $40 and $80. ATI and Huappauge make the best standard TV cards avaialable.
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U should Install TV tuner card in ur pc
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That Tuner is made by hauppauge. Here is the LATEST driver at their website.\nhttp://www.hauppauge.com/pages/support/support_pci_878.html
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you would most likely need a 'tv tuner' card\nhowever i am not sure if laptops are capable of the same 'quality' as hdtv\n\nsee the sources below for some ideas on what is available out there
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Buy an USB TV-tuner/satTV box!\nTry this link for a list of useful links to more products: http://www.techadvice.com/help/Products/u/usb-tvtuner.asp
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Yes, as long as you have a free PCI slot you can get a Mac compatible TV tuner card.  This was the only one I could find, http://www.macmall.com/macmall/shop/detail.asp?store=macmall&dpno=381497&source=ZWB12091&srccode=cii_10043468&cpncode=09-5580730-2&adcampaign=email,ZWB12091&wt.mc_id=ZWB12091 there may be others but this was the only one that came up in searches from a reputable store.
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Happauge TV/FM Tuner go herehttp://www.hauppauge.com/pages/support/support_pci_878.html#drv
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Have a look here:\nhttp://tesla.liketelevision.com/liketelevision/tuner.php?channel=18&format=tv&theme=guide\nhttp://www.movies-free.net/
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Yes, but you'll need a tv tuner card.
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try Pinnacle pctv pro
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You would need to purchase something called a TV Tuner Card.  Some of them come with remote controls and decent ones usually cost, at most, about $30.  If you have a laptop or you don't have an available PCI slot to install it, you can get external USB TV Tuner Cards, as well.\n\nSome graphics cards come with NTSC and Digital tuners built in.  You do not necessarily need to replace the entire graphics card.  \n\nHere's a cheap internal PCI one with a remote\n\nhttp://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=1698860&CatId=1427\n\nHere is an external.  They are generally more expensive.\n\nhttp://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=1961041&CatId=0
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TV software won't work without a TV tuner.
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Pick up a TV tuner card.  They're not too expensive.  Search http://newegg.com or another computer hardware store.  There are also USB TV tuners.  Look around online, you'll find something.
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I am currently using an ATI ALL-IN-WONDER 2006 EDITION -  RADEON 9600 256 MB TV tuner. The nice things about the all-in-wonder cards is they are high quality graphics cards with TV tuners built in. Excellent frame-rate on games and no lag on the TV. There are tuner-only cards you can get (MSI TV Anywhere, ATI TV Wonder) and I know ATI makes a USB TV Wonder, but I personally prefer to have everything in one package. I expect you would have poorer performance on a seperate PCI card or USB adapter.
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not sure if you've heard of Winamp or not, but it has an impressive radio/net tuner built in.. even does satelite radio.. one of my favorite audio applications.
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All agree that you need a TV tuner card.  I have a 'Hauppage Win TV' card which is quite good and easy to install into a PCI slot.  Don't forget the coaxial cable and TV connection.  Just follow the installation instructions.  You can do it..
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You need a TV Tuner card:\n\nA TV tuner card is a computer component that allows television signals to be received by a computer. Most TV tuners also function as video capture cards, allowing them to record television programs onto a hard disk.\n\nWhile typically a PCI-bus expansion card, they can also be a USB device. Some video cards double as TV tuners, notably the ATI All-In-Wonder series. The card contains a receiver, tuner, demodulator, and a analog-to-digital converter for analog TV. Like TV sets, each version is designed for the radio frequencies and video formats used in each country. However, many TV tuners used in computers use DSP, so a firmware upgrade is often all that's necessary to change the supported video format. Many newer TV tuners have Flash memory big enough to hold the firmwares for decoding several different video formats, making it possible to use the tuner in many countries without having to flash the firmware. In addition to the frequency tuner, many include a composite video input. Many TV tuners can function as FM radios: this is because the FM radio spectrum lies between television channels 6 and 7, and the DSP can be easily programmed to decode FM.