Will any tv tuner card work on any ordinary cable tv service?
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As long as it has the same connection such as a coaxial nub, yes. You may have to set it up in the install program or in your options list to let it recognize cable and not from the composite (RCA Jack)input. If you have sattelite, its a whole different ballgame, or High Def.
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Plug in Tv Tunner card and cable wire. Or simply search for some website that shows your channels.
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I am currently using an ATI ALL-IN-WONDER 2006 EDITION -  RADEON 9600 256 MB TV tuner. The nice things about the all-in-wonder cards is they are high quality graphics cards with TV tuners built in. Excellent frame-rate on games and no lag on the TV. There are tuner-only cards you can get (MSI TV Anywhere, ATI TV Wonder) and I know ATI makes a USB TV Wonder, but I personally prefer to have everything in one package. I expect you would have poorer performance on a seperate PCI card or USB adapter.
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Just about every answer posted here is correct. Now when you do go looking for the tv tuner card, you may also want to consider upgrading the memory on the computer. Most people that watch tv on the computer are multitasking ( working with different programs at once) and this takes up memory. Also read the requirements on the tv tuner card and the software that comes with it carefully. Make sure it is compatible with your computer.\nhttp://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/search.asp?cat=1423&keywords=tv%20tuner%20card&noredirect=1
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All agree that you need a TV tuner card.  I have a 'Hauppage Win TV' card which is quite good and easy to install into a PCI slot.  Don't forget the coaxial cable and TV connection.  Just follow the installation instructions.  You can do it..
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Pick up a TV tuner card.  They're not too expensive.  Search http://newegg.com or another computer hardware store.  There are also USB TV tuners.  Look around online, you'll find something.
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Yes, but you need to first have a TV Tuner card.. and one more option is that a software call HALP TV is available on the net.. just download it and search for the different shows you want to watch..
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Yes, as long as you have a free PCI slot you can get a Mac compatible TV tuner card.  This was the only one I could find, http://www.macmall.com/macmall/shop/detail.asp?store=macmall&dpno=381497&source=ZWB12091&srccode=cii_10043468&cpncode=09-5580730-2&adcampaign=email,ZWB12091&wt.mc_id=ZWB12091 there may be others but this was the only one that came up in searches from a reputable store.
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Yes.  Check places like Ebay or Tiger Direct for external USB TV Tuners.
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Direct TV has its own tuner. It will connect to RCA or Coax inputs to your tv. Likely it will work with your PC card, however, you will only tune in a single channel on the PC. Much like using a cable box with your PC card.
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There are even USB TV tuners that you can buy.\nI would recommend on buying the USB TV tuner. I've "heard" that they are better than the PCMCIA ones. \nAnother reason on buying the USB one instead of the PCMCIA one is that because it's USB you can connect it on any desktop with USB. \n\nYahoo now is advertising a good USB Card for their Yahoo Go.\nhttp://go.connect.yahoo.com/go/tv/get_started\n\nAnd here is a USB model TV Tuner http://go.connect.yahoo.com/go/tv/dvr
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you need a card tv card that has a svideo output.
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You need to get a tv tuner card, these are pretty easy to get as they are avaliable on amazon, ebay and other places and can often be bought very cheaply.
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You have to connect your TV cable to TV card, not to video card.
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There are several good tuner solutions on the market today, but I haven't personally used any that are external and use USB. \n\nI think plextor makes a good USB SD solution:\nhttp://www.plextor.com/english/products/product_dvc.html\n\nHauppauge also makes a USB SD solution:\nhttp://www.hauppauge.com/pages/products/data_pvrusb2.html\n\nThe only HDTV capable capture cards on the market do *not* support windows. But, they work great in linux and are extremely well supported by the mythtv (PVR) project & community.\n\nThe HD capture cards are made by the pcHDTV company.  \nhttp://www.pchdtv.com/ \nthe pcHDTV™ HD-3000 is thier latest & greatest.\n\nAs far as windows goes, the best cards are made by the hauppauge company.\nhttp://www.hauppauge.com/\nThey have several cards that you might look at (if you can add a PCI card instead of USB device).  I personally recommend the WinTV-PVR-350 as a first card.  It comes with a remote and uses hardware on the card to do the encoding (saves CPU bandwidth) and if you choose to use it for video out, it also has a hardware encoder.\n\n\nCheck out these links for an open source PVR project:\n\nhttp://www.mythtv.org/\nhttp://www.mysettopbox.tv/knoppmyth.html\n\nWell, I hope that helps.
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do you have cable tv at your place? The tuner card should have a 75 ohm cable connector... you run one of the cables from the wall socket and connect it to the connector on the card (just like you were connecting the cable to the ohm connector on the back of a tv).\n\nstart up the tuner card application on your computer, and you set it up from there (scan for all the channels, etc).
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yes - either an external USB tuner, or an internal PCI tuner - OR a PCMCIA TV tuner for a laptop - or some AGP video cards in desktops have TV tuners built in - either way - you need the hardware to view video signals on your PC