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Turning your Laptop Computer in a TV using TV Tuner Card

Published by Amit Bhawani on June 6, 2008 – 9:11 am10 Comments

You cannot always enjoy online television because of low quality, slow broadband internet connection and limited number of channels, but its very much possible to view your complete TV in your laptop using a TV Tuner Card. There are basically two types of TV Tuner cards available in the market which are Internet and External and in case of a Desktop computer you can setup any of these, but i would recommend using a external TV Tuner card for laptop because a PCI TV tuner card would be a problem.

External USB Models are easier to setup and can be handled easily as you dont need to play with the hardware of your laptop in order to get started. You can search online shopping sites for different available USB TV tuner cards which come with a remote control to change channels. These also feature saving screenshot to images, resizing images, auto-scan, full channel scan, parental control.

Some USB TV Tuner Cards :
Aver Card Bus Plus PCMCIA TV Tuner – 6000Rs[Rediff]
Smallest USB TV Tuner Card – 2500Rs[Rediff]
USB 2.0 External Tv Tuner For Laptop – 1600Rs[Rediff]
Techcom USB External TV Tuner Card For Laptop – 2200Rs[Rediff]

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The pricing of these TV Tuner cards depend on the features they provide and it starts from 1000Rs to 10000Rs. These offer you taking screenshots from live TV channels to recording videos directory to your laptop’s hard disk drive when you are not available in order to make sure you can watch a TV show in the later period, a scheduled recording feature. Recording formats include AVI, DivX, MPEG1 & MPEG2 but the recorded video quality would be bit lower than the original source.

Make sure you read reviews on these shopping portals before buying out your first external TV Tuner cards.

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  • Tariq Zaki says:

    I have recently bought a external tv tuner card from Alfa Mumbai, the card mfg is ENTER, while installing the card had problem and i got a warning too. post installing the tv tuner is working fine, but the screen flickers a lot, i would want to know from u
    1. does screen flicker when tv tuner card (USB) is used on a laptop

    2. does this specific card has a problem

    3. which card would u suggest which difuses my problem

    thanks

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  • Nitin says:

    dear sir i am planing to buy a usb 2.0 tv tonner card i am having hcl 2114 laptop dose my laptop support tv tonner card or laptop is required certain specification to support tv tonner card.

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  • Vincent says:

    Hi,I want to buy a TV tuner card for my Laptop, Which is Acer 4715z. Is my Laptop compatible and if it is then which TV tuner card should I buy.I don’t know how it works and do I need Internet to watch, so Sir can you please help out

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  • sanjeet says:

    sir,
    I used to buy a USB TV Tuner Card for my Laptop.So suggest me which TV Tuner card is best suited for my HP dv2000 laptop. Which TV Tuner Card it supports.
    Pls give me reply as soon as possible…..

    Best regards
    sanjeet

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  • B.Mandal says:

    I want to purchase a TV tuner card for my Laptop (Compaq Presario CQ45- Window Vista). Can anyone suggest me which make should I go for.

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  • Amit Jha says:

    Hi,I want to buy a TV tuner card for my Laptop, Which is Acer Aspire 5720Z. which has 2gb ram 260 gb hardisk Is my Laptop compatible and if it is then which TV tuner card should I buy. I hev Hathway internet connection and they said that i can watch TV with the same line. Will TV tuner card effect the performance of my laptop. please help.

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  • Ashutosh Pathak says:

    Can any body suggest me that which is the best external TV tuner card , performance and price wise for every type of
    Laptops, my laptop is of TOSHIBA Satellite

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  • mann says:

    sir i want to buy a tv tuner for my laptop acer 4730z. please send me information about it. at my email itsme_rocky69@rediffmail.com. i live in jaipur so please also send address of this mallor shop as soon aspossible. thank you sir

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    RAJIV DUTT Reply:

    I WNAT A TVT UNER CARD ,U ARE INTERSTED TO SELL CALL ME 98100276047

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