Watching TV With an HDTV Tuner Card
A HDTV tuner card is what allows you to watch TV by receiving HD signals and processing them into your High Definition picture without having to connect to the internet. Today just about everyone is using a computer of some sort. You see people using their laptops in coffee houses, airplanes as well as at home and the office.
October 23rd, 2009 at 11:12 am
Is an external HDtv tuner card for your computer the same as an internal HDtv tuner card of an lcd television?
Also, which would have more electro magnetic interference (emi), watching tv on my computer with an external tuner card, or watching a normal lcd or plasma?.
thanks
October 23rd, 2009 at 4:14 pm
The ATSC over-the-air HDTV tuners you buy for PCs would do the same thing as the TV tuner that’s in an LCD HDTV. Both are designed to receive over-the-air broadcast HDTV signal from your local television staitons, and both require you to hook up an ATSC HDTV antenna in your house.
If you already have digital HD cable TV service (or satellite or Fios), I wouldn’t even bother. If your computer monitor is HDCP-compliant, you can simply connect the digital HD cable box directly to your monitor’s DVI or HDMI input and use it as a TV (the cable box acts as a tuner and the monitor merely displays what the cable box tells it to display).
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