Posts by BillC

In our house we only use free brodcast television so our antenna system is already in place. I bolted a 24' steel tower to the side of the house and put the atenna at the top with an amplifier. We get four channels-- thats more than...

The max vertical resolution for this version is 240. Under the Digital VCR heading you can select whatever file type you want. UPDATE: btwincap drivers fixed the live tv problem but now the recording function does not work. Oh...

The live TV now works after installing new drivers from here: http://btwincap.sourceforge.net/custom.html By the way, the chip used in the 8886's tv tuner is the BT848. Bill

It works ... but ... IMHO the Sager TV tuner is excellent but the "TV Studio" software that comes with it is awful. It is hard to figure out, cumbersome to use and has some bugs. The solution may be to use ATI's MMC...

The quality of this tunner is really good-- especially in comparison to the ATI TV Wonder. (The Sager has an Aver tunner). I have been doing side by side comparisons between the Sager and my TV Wonder equiped desktop PC. The same...

If you want to use the hotels cable/antenna you may want to check with the front desk first. When I got my first computer, 20 years ago, I was living in a hotel in NJ were I had just started a new job. In those days the PC was a...

My recomendation would be to buy an inexpensive amplified TV set top type antenna. This will give you a chance to check it out and see if the TV signals in your area are strong enough for use on the road. If the antenna works mix up...

These notebooks are shipped "signature required."

The picture quality of the 8886 built in tunner is very good. I did a side by side comparison with the ATI TV Wonder card in my desk top system and the Sager. The Sager was better, though some of the improved quality may be due to the...

Whoa! Hey I did'nt mean to touch some nerves with my crack about M$ activation. It's just that it is new to me since I have been a Windows 95 and then 98 user. Anyway, on to some fun stuff. My notebook should arrive Friday...