TV tuners on your notebook

second that....
Fly tv tuner does the lot

Mainey . . .

Thanks Lewis, did you decide on a model?

Yeh, speakers are a a must, the new hp compaq, I can hardly hear movies on it although the speakers look bigger than the old notebook. Will have to check out ebay for some. Thanks Douglas.

Nice success story ). Ive got a compaq as well, I guess you would have watched analog tv, not digital? Does the fm tuner work well also?

While in Exmouth we were watching analogue, but in the metro (on the boat) we get digital. Fm tuner works well too. :o)

Ahh that sucks, I wonder why you cant pick up anything yet another guy had success with a similiar combo for watching tv. Did you try updating the drivers for the card?

Yeh, tried that, no change.
Basically, I don't think the computer is fast enough for the card (the CPU is a Sempron 3000, with 700-odd mb of RAM), even tho it's much faster than the minimum speed quoted as required for the card. It would usually crash while trying to lock into the HD channels. Ran Sisoft Sandra on the laptop to check its speed, and it was running fine for type of CPU.
But I bought it in good faith based on my laptop specs and the card specs.
Another issue was the config files supplied on the install disk were wrong for Aust analog TV frequencies. I corrected them and then I was able to receive analog channels, but badly tearing.
Would be interested talking to anyone else who has bought this card, as the manufacturer is not interested in talking to me. Was advised by the supplier to pay for a computer tech to sort it out. This would cost more than the card is worth.
Gerry