Hi guys! One thing I always wanted to test was to watch TV on my laptop specially now during Soccer EM :-) I didn't find any good reviews so I had to give it a try and bought a slick little USB TV tuner from Microstar for only 650 SKr (60) Now I've seen many bad videos with high compression and streaming pop videos from web at 128-400 kb/sec but I've never seen so awful "video" as it was from the card... Imagine every artifact you can: raw aliasing, bleeding colors, interlacing lines, flickering images and more and put it together so you have it...without sound. (Yes, I tried every seetings possible and I've met the syst. recoms- 2,2 Ghz, 512 Mb ram, ATI Mobile Radeon) Fortunately I could leave the card back but it would have been so cool to have TV in my laptop; you are hereby warned to drop the idea...or have you better experiences regarding this issue? Regards Atte

Something tells me the card wasn't tuned properly or you ariel/antenna wasn't set up properly.......

Bryster: the signal came from a central antenna outlet and the card was set to the correct PAL B system; the software automatically scanned for the channels. Later I've found some USB tv card reviews on the web and many people mention these problems so it seems that it just doesn't work with USB, for ex. the data flow from the card is too low (1/10 of a PCI TV card); maybe it would work with Firewire...

You're probably better off with a PCMCIA type tuner card. (Most laptops have the PCMCIA slot.) Not too sure about what's on the market in the way of tuners, but they have to be out there. The networking cards in that format are pretty good. Also the throughput of PCMCIA is probably equivalent to that of a PCI bus. Another thing to watch for is the drivers. If you don't have the right ones or the updates, sometimes things don't work so great.

Thanks p75, I'm going to check it out on the web!