HP TV Tuner Card (US)

[xvvvz]

>>I also got the HP tuner card and it works better in Quickplay than Media Center.<<

Haven't tried it in QuickPlay. Just out of curiosity, what do you like better about QuickPlay?

Does your card get hot when it is in use?

[Zcott]

My card does get hot in use....not ridiculously so, but very noticeably so.

[kanehi]

The HP tuner card detects more TV stations in Quickplay setup than in Media Center (go figure). You can load Quickplay faster than Media Center. The card does get "hot" but you'll only notice it when you take it out.

[orev]

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Also my school doesn't provide me with anything except a male pin on the wall to insert a coax cable into (I think that's what its called).
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Normally you insert things into female adapters

Yeah, that just a regular coax connector.

[Outdoorwriter]

Hmm. I tried to set up my a TV tuner with the HP media center and recieved no signals. I can't figure out what is wrong/missing and my local cable company doesn't know anything about laptop/CPU TV tuners. My cable router box/linksys "g" network works fine with my laptop: I am wireless around the house.
I have to have a digital cable setup box to watch cable TV in the living room. Do I really need another one to watch TV on the laptop? What good is it if I have to be hard connected to a cable again? Here it was stated you don't need anything except the antenna, express TV tuner card and the remote to watch TV. I planned on using this to watch TV around the house and maybe in the backyard.

Any connection advice is good! If the cable/internet guys don't know, who does?

[orev]

The wireless/network has nothing to do with the TV tuner.

You will need to connect either the cable TV cable or a TV antenna to the tuner card before you will be able to get anywhere. I think it came with an antenna, so start with that. You should be able to get a few "over the air" TV channels just like that. If you have them in your area, you should also be able to get some digital hi definition stations.

Once you have connected one or the other of the antenna or cable, follow the setup instructions that came with it.

[justinluck]

DViCO Fusion7 HDTV USB hands down. The best quality on the market for $100.

[sgip2000]

Check the Avermedia HC80 out. Does FM, NTSC, and ATSC. Hauppauge has a similar model that instead of FM does QAM. The Avermedia has a hardware encoder whereas the Hauppauge is software based.

[Outdoorwriter]

Yeah, I know the wirelss has nothing to do with it, I wanted to watch wireless TV though; if the HP antenna worked I could of. Since all the ITs (local and HP) I spoke to and the cable company was equally stumped about TV tuners in general, I continued on to make a connection of any type: this time I got a new coax and hooked it up from the splitter (other side goes to router) to the HP TV tuner card adaptor-Bingo! basic digital cable works fine. Antenna provided with the the TV tuner card is worthless, at least here. At least HP provides more adaptors with the Tuner card, including RCA for recording. Anyway, where I live it has to be hard connection, and if I want expanded/tier cable I would have to get another cable ste up box from the cable company. I am surprised to find few that are actually watching TV of any type on their computer around here; this is Silicon Valley. Guess TV is a nice-to-have feature, not required. Me, I'm not paying for another subscription to watch TV (Slingbox). I already LOVE having this feature- I can work and have TV on in the background, and can watch it now by simply switching windows. Thanks for your help, all. Hope this hook-up scenario helps someone too.

[xvvvz]

If you are in Silicon Valley, I find it hard to believe that there are no OTA digital channels available. I think either you didn't get one of the parameters set up right or you have some defective hardware. No big deal if you don't need to use it "mobile." I am leaning more toward a setup problem though since the tuner seems to be working OK with cable.