Friday, September 2, 2011

How To Watch TV On Laptop For Free

By Amy Hanke


The daily cost of living is gradually increasing, and those extra television sets may be adding up to the problem. If you wish to, you can get rid of those extra TV sets and watch TV from your computer instead. Now, you may ask: How to watch TV on laptop for free? Well, that is the question that we will be trying to answer in this article.

Fortunately, today's highly-technological and modern world has produced different gadgets and devices that allow us to do certain things that weren't possible or even imaginable in the past. Today, a device known as a PC TV tuner card allows us to turn our desktop or laptop computer into a television. All you have to do is to connect this device to the computer, and then connect the cable or antenna television source to the device as well in the same way that you would connect to any typical TV.

Apart from simply allowing users to watch TV on their PC, PC TV tuner cards also allow users to do more. For example, with the use of PC TV tuner cards, users will be able to record the shows they like for future playback without even having to pay a monthly subscription fee. Users will be able to hook up their VCR and save home movies to their computer's hard drive, and even back them up to DVD provided that they own a burner. All this added functionality is what makes PC TV tuner cards a great invention.

One other great thing about using a PC TV tuner card is that it offers a wide array of choices, interfaces, and price ranges. They can cost around twenty-five dollars, and they are available with USB and FireWire connections. Also, PC TV tuner cards are available with a variety of interfaces and feature sets that offer great compatibility with just about any personal computer.

Remember, though, that all of the tuning is achieved by a combination of hardware and software. Therefore, you can expect that the quality will vary from one tuner to another based on the quality of the tuner components and the design of the application and drivers. Note also that you may need a computer that has a fast processor plus enough memory and a hard drive that is not only fast enough to keep up but also large enough to hold all of your recordings.

This is how to watch TV on laptop for free.




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