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External TV Tuner for Laptop

post #1 of 7
8/26/05 at 3:37pm
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Sorry for this n00b question, but this is the kind of thing posters here will know.

I am looking at buying a gaming laptop for LAN parties. I hate to wag my desktop around with me every time my friends get together to play. They also play a lot of XBox games, so what I'm thinking about is an external USB tv tuner so I can use my laptop as an XBox monitor. I already do this with my desktop with acceptable results. The only thing I'm concerned about is that I have heard some tv tuners have a delay between what you see on the screen and what actually comes in. My question is this: do any of the posters here know of a good usb tv tuner, preferably one that accepts s-video signals, that doesn't have a delay in it so it can be used in place of a tv with my xbox?
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post #2 of 7
8/27/05 at 1:28pm
I have a Hauppauge PVR USB2, great for watching TV, S-vid in, but it does have the delay. There is a registry entry you can use to cut the delay from a second or so to a few milliseconds but picture quality suffers a bit. Generally, card bus and non-encoding USB cards have the least delay. TvCards.com is a pretty good board to search for more info.
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post #3 of 7
8/27/05 at 3:54pm
The ATI TV Wonder USB 2.0's doesn't have much delay if any at all from what I remember.
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post #4 of 7
8/27/05 at 9:24pm
I just got the AverMedia UltraTV USB 300. I could not get any sound to play. The AverMedia support rep told me that you cannot get sound with any Dell laptop, that the line-in jack does not support Live audio input. He assumed that the same must be true of my Asus. Aside from not being able to get sound I was satisfied with the video performance as well as the software, so I am exchanging it for the AverTV Cardbus, which is essentially the same thing in PCMCIA form. The one thing about the software is that it's a bit ugly and clunky, but it gets the job done.
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post #5 of 7
8/28/05 at 6:27pm
I really like the Leadtek WinFast USB II Deluxe... It 0WNZ!
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post #6 of 7
8/30/05 at 8:54pm
i just got a DSE cardbus TV tuner, which i beleive is a rebadged lifeview flytv cardbus. Seems to work fine. has s-video input. theres a slight delay, about 1/10 sec. video resolution is reduced to (i think) VCD size when timeshifting. haven't tried playing around and tweaking or getting 3rd party software yet.

Jeff
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post #7 of 7
10/14/05 at 2:00pm
Get the new Fusion5HDTV USB tuner for laptops. I has even another tuner for QAM builtin. It's even MCE2005 ready accoring to the DVICO site.
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