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Turning your Laptop Computer in a TV using TV Tuner Card

June 6, 2008 by Amit Bhawani

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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Comments

  1. Tariq Zaki says

    September 6, 2008 at 1:20 pm

    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

  2. Nitin says

    September 30, 2008 at 3:36 am

    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.

  3. Vincent says

    November 3, 2008 at 10:18 am

    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

  4. sanjeet says

    November 19, 2008 at 4:36 am

    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

  5. B.Mandal says

    February 22, 2009 at 4:45 pm

    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.

  6. Amit Jha says

    March 20, 2009 at 9:31 am

    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.

  7. Ashutosh Pathak says

    March 25, 2009 at 10:42 am

    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

  8. mann says

    May 1, 2009 at 4:01 am

    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

    • RAJIV DUTT says

      September 8, 2009 at 4:41 pm

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

  9. Rakesh Inani says

    January 25, 2010 at 11:10 am

    Hi,I want to buy a TV tuner card for my Laptop, Which is Acer 5738
    tell me price and full detail about this.my mobile no.is
    09501938188.

  10. naveen says

    April 22, 2010 at 7:09 am

    sir, I want to buy an external tv tuner card for my lenovo 3000 y 500 laptop.
    Whether external tuner cards are harmful to the laptop……
    what are the best models for my laptop which comes up with warranty

  11. bhanu partap singh says

    June 10, 2010 at 8:01 am

    sir,
    i want to buy an external tv tuner for my COMPAQ 510 SERIES laptop……plz suggest me which tuner card is best suited for my lappy……

  12. ATUL ANAND says

    July 26, 2010 at 3:46 pm

    gud evening sir,
    i m a student of B.Tech, and i want to watch tv shows in my sony vaio laptop but since i m living in a hostel so i dont have any source of cable connection. so i wanted to ask whether watching tv is possible or not, if yes then plz tell the procedure.

  13. sayan datta says

    September 12, 2010 at 10:53 pm

    hi..
    i am planning to buy a tv tuner card for my accer aspire 4520 laptop….can you please tell me which card is suitable for my laptop or els can i see tv from my laptop?

  14. Shoaib Malik says

    September 13, 2010 at 5:08 pm

    Sir,i have a “PIXELVIEV” tv tuner card but not have its driver,so pls tell me,from where i can take its driver and install it.sir pls give me answer as soon as possible.

  15. vaibhav jain says

    September 20, 2010 at 12:50 pm

    i want to buy an Tv tuner card for my laptop acer aspire 4715z , having an feature of recording. so plz insist me whether to go with internal tv tuner or external tv tune and compared rates of both

  16. jai shanker verma says

    January 4, 2011 at 12:38 pm

    i want to purchase a tv tuner card for Presario CQ45 laptop with areliable prise so suggest me a card.

  17. Neeraj Lall says

    January 7, 2011 at 11:03 am

    ” i would recommend using a external TV Tuner card for laptop because a PCI TV tuner card would be a problem” Why a PCI card is a problem, can you please explain? Are PCI cards compatible with PC Express slots on laptops?

    Also Is there any TV Tuner Card using which I can watch Tv without booting my Laptop? If not, suggest an inexpensive card with recording feature? Is the recording feature h/w dependent of s/w dependent?

  18. sourabh says

    January 22, 2011 at 11:55 am

    sir i have hp dv4 1240 tx laptop. it has integreted tv tuner written on its manual what does this means…?
    and i want to watch tv on it so wat tv tuner should i use……..?

  19. raghu says

    February 7, 2011 at 10:51 pm

    Hi
    I am using Sony full H.D.Laptop with
    500gb HD,
    4gb Ram,
    I3 processor,
    1gb Graphic card
    I want to buy a TV Tuner Card
    plz help me which TV Tuner Card will help me most.

  20. DEEPESH says

    February 27, 2011 at 2:44 pm

    gud evening sir,
    i m a student of B.Tech, and i want to watch tv shows in my sony vaio laptop but since i m living in a hostel so i dont have any source of cable connection. so i wanted to ask whether watching tv is possible or not, if yes then plz tell the procedure.

  21. BHARAT PUROHIT says

    March 15, 2011 at 11:01 pm

    Dear sir,

    i want to buy tv tune card for acer aspire 5740.

    i am a bit worried for my lap top.

    is it safe to use external tv tuner in lap top?

    anything related to virus or speed of laptop?

  22. L Mohammed Shahid says

    April 20, 2011 at 2:50 pm

    Hi,

    My name is L Mohammed Shahid. I am currently using HCL Leaptop 39, i would like to know which external TV Tuner card will work work best for my system. And how much i would be spending on it, in say a year or so ?

  23. Stephen says

    June 4, 2011 at 8:23 am

    Hi, I have a normal TV BPL 14” with 70 channels – can I connect an external TV tuner to my TV and increase the channels – just curious.

  24. deepak.s says

    June 2, 2013 at 2:54 pm

    sir, I have Acer aspire 5738g laptop ,is TV tuner cards compatible with this device, if yes then suggest me a suitable one…with its price details..

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