Digital Home Thoughts: Review of Notebook TV Tuners

"In an increasingly mobile world portability is everything: phones, notebooks. PDAs, projectors, even routers. As a consequence, anything that works with these devices must be equally teeny or be obliterated by the competition. This is particularly true of notebook cardbus TV tuners where we want the functionality and quality of a high end set without, quite frankly, the size of a high end set. As always, the technology has arrived, the sector has become competitive and its time to put of couple of brands to the test. Head on, mano a mano, two cards enter one card leaves (gotta love Tina Tuner in Thunderdome!)."



The author reviews two cards. The article recommends AVerMedia card, a £74.99 card as one that performs well, reliable and relatively easy on system resources. On the other hand, the article shows that LifeView’s TV Card simply has too many troubles with dodgy drivers, excruciating noise and inferior specs. I will most likely be getting rid of my TV within a week and I am thinking that it might be worth investing in one of these cards for my laptop, that is until I find a new TV.