TV Tuners For The PC: Internal Or External

~*77*~ writes "TV tuners are gaining popularity for simple TV watching on your home PC, as well providing capturing capabilities intended to rival Tivo style devices. BigBruin.Com has new reviews taking a look at two TV tuners in the $50 range... An internal, PCI device from Leadtek... And an external, USB 2.0 device from Transcend... Head to head testing decide whether either is worth your time or money."

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Better hurry...

[Insomnia]

...and get one you like quickly, before They implement the broadcast flag on everything and TV tuners become totally illegal. ;)

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Not really a good review if you ask me. Kind of light on content and really doesn't discuss the benefits of internal vs. external TV encoders.

Re:What are TV Tuners for?

[LoocSiMit]

Other than that, I can't really see why people would forego a generally bigger/cheaper TV screen to see video on a smaller window on a computer monitor.

Your TV is bigger than your monitor?

I'm afraid I have to revoke your membership of the Geek club.

Re:What are TV Tuners for?

[colinemckay]

So I can sound really cool at parties by saying that I don't own a TV, while secretly watching six Friends reruns a day!

Re:What are TV Tuners for?

[swankypimp]

How's this for geeky: I don't own a TV, so in order to watch the Discovery Channel I bought a PCI tuner. Geekier still: the seven fans in my rig made it impossible to hear the audio, so I wound up gettting an external tuner/signal converter (which I can plug into USB 2.0 when I want to capture). This lets me watch tv when the computer is quiet, i.e. turned off (Okay, I guess I lose geek points for turning my machine off).