tv tuner PCMCIA card for my laptop

[rookie1010]

Hello

I am looking for a TV tuner PCMCI card formy sony VAIO laptop, VGN-S360.

can you guys recommend a PCMCIA TV tuner card

 

[The Linuxator]

Originally posted by: rookie1010
Hello

I am looking for a TV tuner PCMCI card formy sony VAIO laptop, VGN-S360.

can you guys recommend a PCMCIA TV tuner card

Link People seem to like this card. personally I am considering getting this too.

 

[rookie1010]

thanks for the link

what do you think of this one
AVerTV Hybrid+FM?

 

[The Linuxator]

Originally posted by: rookie1010
thanks for the link

what do you think of this one
AVerTV Hybrid+FM?

Give me a link so I can see which one exactly you are talking about,
Also are you planing to run windows media center or something? In that case make sure you have an MCE compatible one like this one, also you might want to consider this nice gadget link so you can switc hthe TV tuner / capture card betweeen your PC and Laptop.

 

[rookie1010]

the link to the card i mentioned is
http://www.avermedia.com/cgi-bin/products_digitvtuner_hybridcardbus.asp?show=2

what do you run windows media center for?

what is an MCE?

 

[Kartajan]

MCE is Windows XP Media Center Edition

Link: http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/mediacenter/default.mspx

 

[rookie1010]

these are the features that are shown for the digitvtuner

* 4:3 and 16:9 wide-screen format
* 16-Channel Preview
* Multi-User Setting
* 16-Channel Preview n Multi-User Setting
* Auto-Scan & Full Channel / Frequency Scan
* Over-Scan
* Fully Resizable TV Windows (1/4 to full screen)
* Channel Re-mapping

Note: HDTV will only function when the TV signal is in HDTV format.

PVR (Personal Video Recorder)

* TimeShift
* TV Scheduler (*one-time/continous mode)
* Silent Record (*Mute while Recording)
* Record Video to MPEG1/2 formats
* Multi-Snapshots (single/consecutive)
* Wake-up Recording from Stand-by (S3) / Hibernate (S4) Sleep Mode
* Fast Channel Switching and Scanning
* Microsoft MCE 2005 Compliant on Digital TV (DVB-T)

what do you guys think?

also why avermedia why not hauppauge?

 

[Kartajan]

probably didn't see the hauppage in PCMCIA...

 

[rookie1010]

which one is this?
can you provide a link?

 

[Kartajan]

This is the only PCMCIA TV tuners that I found; if hauppage makes one I haven't seen it. (Although they DO make models in USB)

 

[rookie1010]

thanks dude

 

[S Freud]

Why would you want to watch TV and your laptop? I have been thinking about getting one of these but just can't justify it when I have a TV, what are the bennefits to this over the actual TV? You have to have cable or something to hook into this don't you?

 

[rookie1010]

it is for a friend who is mostly on the move. i think laptop tv is justifiable in his case

 

[S Freud]

But you have to already have cable in order to watch it right? So how do you do it? just plug it in to something?

 

[Traire]

If he could hook a small antanae to it and pick up over the air signals from NBC, CBS, ABC, Fox, WB, etc. Would work as well as haveing a portable LCD TV, just with a much bigger screen.