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From: Roy on 7 Jul 2010 21:05 Hello group I am planning to watch TV by using the LCD screen of my 17 inch laptop. How will I do this ? I have never done any interconnection between the TV and my Laptop... I just want to watch high definition shows using my better resolution laptop screen instead of the old CRT TV screen which produces an often grainy reception . Or is this possible? TIA Roy
From: J G Miller on 7 Jul 2010 21:18 On Wed, 07 Jul 2010 18:05:30 -0700, Roy wrote: > Hello group > I am planning to watch TV by using the LCD screen of my 17 inch laptop. > How will I do this ? IF you are in North America, you buy an ATSC USB receiver capture device. If you are in Europe, you buy a DVB-t USB receiver capture device. You plug the TV antenna into the device, then plug the device into the USB socket on your laptop PC. Under Windoze, you then install the necessary hardware driver for the device, and then the user interface software to tune the device and to decode the transport stream and to send the picture to the screen and the sound to the sound device. Hope that helps. Since you do not specify your world region, it would be futile to suggest which USB device you should buy.
From: John McGaw on 8 Jul 2010 12:08 On 7/7/2010 9:18 PM, J G Miller wrote: > On Wed, 07 Jul 2010 18:05:30 -0700, Roy wrote: > >> Hello group >> I am planning to watch TV by using the LCD screen of my 17 inch laptop. >> How will I do this ? > > IF you are in North America, you buy an ATSC USB receiver capture device. > > If you are in Europe, you buy a DVB-t USB receiver capture device. > > You plug the TV antenna into the device, then plug the device into the > USB socket on your laptop PC. > > Under Windoze, you then install the necessary hardware driver for the device, > and then the user interface software to tune the device and to decode the > transport stream and to send the picture to the screen and the sound to > the sound device. > > Hope that helps. Since you do not specify your world region, it would be > futile to suggest which USB device you should buy. Or if the notebook is compatible and one dislikes dongles one might use an ExpressCard or CardBus tuner (depending on the notebook's age). One of these would cost a bit more but give a neater finished appearance. It might even work better although I wouldn't bet on that.
From: Roy on 8 Jul 2010 16:29 On Jul 8, 9:18 am, J G Miller <mil...(a)yoyo.ORG> wrote: > On Wed, 07 Jul 2010 18:05:30 -0700, Roy wrote: > > Hello group > > I am planning to watch TV by using the LCD screen of my 17 inch laptop. > > How will I do this ? > > IF you are in North America, you buy an ATSC USB receiver capture device. > > If you are in Europe, you buy a DVB-t USB receiver capture device. > > You plug the TV antenna into the device, then plug the device into the > USB socket on your laptop PC. > > Under Windoze, you then install the necessary hardware driver for the device, > and then the user interface software to tune the device and to decode the > transport stream and to send the picture to the screen and the sound to > the sound device. > > Hope that helps. Since you do not specify your world region, it would be > futile to suggest which USB device you should buy. Hmm so its not that easy then just to connect the notebook to the old CRT based TV. BTW, I am currently staying in Philippines for a month and residing in a place where the in house TV had very poor picture quality .. I had asked some people here about USB tuners and they said that the analog type of TV tuner does not give a better picture either compared to the standard TV... So I was thinking that maybe by using instead the notebook screen the reception might be improved? Any ideas? Roy
From: John McGaw on 8 Jul 2010 16:39
On 7/8/2010 4:29 PM, Roy wrote: > On Jul 8, 9:18 am, J G Miller<mil...(a)yoyo.ORG> wrote: >> On Wed, 07 Jul 2010 18:05:30 -0700, Roy wrote: >>> Hello group >>> I am planning to watch TV by using the LCD screen of my 17 inch laptop. >>> How will I do this ? >> >> IF you are in North America, you buy an ATSC USB receiver capture device. >> >> If you are in Europe, you buy a DVB-t USB receiver capture device. >> >> You plug the TV antenna into the device, then plug the device into the >> USB socket on your laptop PC. >> >> Under Windoze, you then install the necessary hardware driver for the device, >> and then the user interface software to tune the device and to decode the >> transport stream and to send the picture to the screen and the sound to >> the sound device. >> >> Hope that helps. Since you do not specify your world region, it would be >> futile to suggest which USB device you should buy. > > Hmm so its not that easy then just to connect the notebook to the old > CRT based TV. > BTW, I am currently staying in Philippines for a month and residing > in a place where the in house TV had very poor picture quality > . > I had asked some people here about USB tuners and they said that the > analog type of TV tuner does not give a better picture either compared > to the standard TV... > So I was thinking that maybe by using instead the notebook screen the > reception might be improved? > Any ideas? > Roy At present the Philippines uses the old US NTSC standard for analog broadcasting and even with the best receiver and display the quality is never going to be great. They are slated to go digital but that isn't for quite a few more years. After the changeover they will be using the European HD standard. No matter what sort of display you have, the picture will never be better than what the input signal is capable of. A super display will show up the defects better I guess but that is rarely what anyone wants. Purgamentum init, exit purgamentum. |