TV Tuner??

anyone know of any TV Tuner that work with the m11x. ihave an r1 if that even matters
I dont want to spend more than 100 dollars

thanks

 

They make usb tv tuners. I was looking at the WinTV 950q but it may have a "must have cd to get drivers/software" issue, and being an m11x you may not have a cd drive. There are a lot available in the market though- check it out.

 

HDHomeRun. Best, most flexible TV Tuner period. Why have a TV Tuner tied to your laptop when you can just put it on your network and tune in from any PC in the house wirelessly?

 

I was going to get a

Newegg.com - DIAMOND ATI Theater HD 750 USB TVW750USB USB 2.0 Interface

for my R1

 

No it doesn't. I have the 950Q and if needed you can download drivers from Hauppauge's website.

 

does this pick up the normal channels only? hd?

 

It will pick up any TV signal, even old analog. I did a test on the desktop version, I got about 8 HD channels off just a basic antena. So Im thinking the USB one should work just as good.

 

can you tell me how this works?
do i plug in my cable to this box then connect the box to my router and i cann access all the channels on my tv from my computer??

 

The HD HomeRun Prime ships at the end of June. It will be everything the HD HomeRun is, plus it takes a CableCard and will tune three channels at once. CableCard is important because most cable companies now encrypt all channels except the OTA ones.

Edit: it's more than $100

 

I am trying to find a way to get live tv on my m11x also. Originally I was looking for usb 3.0 tuner to see if it would be better than 2.0 but not much was found on this quest. Tonight I was reading about hdhomerun and it seems interesting enough and looks promising especially with the prime version coming out soon. Then I thought about using Orb since I have an HVR-1600 tv tuner in my desktop and it could stream over the internet. The issue I see is while Orb opens up a lot of opportunity for mobile devices, not much is offered for a laptop in the other room. Now I'm finding out about WinTV extend which comes with the new WinTV software 7.2. It should be better than orb since orb is web interfaced. In order to install the WinTV 7 software you have to have a software installation cd (it's right on their support site). This goes for pretty much all of their tv tuners (including usb ones). It also says that if you have a WinTV 7 cd then "extend" will automatically install with an update to 7.2. Since I'm installing from an older version, it appears that I'm going to have to buy the cd for $9.99 to check it out, and then I have to pay and wait for the shipping .

Hopefully, I'm just reading it wrong. I will try installing here shortly.

The drivers for the 950q are usable without the cd though as Jay says.

 

The HDHomeRun is a box that you plug your cable line (from the wall) into, then plug it into your home network. You install drivers on any computer, it finds the tuners on your network, scans for channels and you're good to go. You can go further and run a tv tuner scan in windows media center, it'll find the tuner, scan for channels, download guide data and you're set.

I've had my HDHomeRun for a couple years now and built a media center for my living room TV. We don't have a cable box, and I just get my local channels over Clear QAM. It does my recording, guide, all the good stuff with a remote control. Its really nice. I can also watch stuff on my desktop or my m11x wirelessly.

If you're shopping for a TV Tuner and have cable you need to decide if you want to be able to watch the encrypted channels on it. Your local stations plus a few others are unencrypted (called Clear QAM) and you don't need a cablecard. But most cable channels (comedy central, scifi, etc) and premium channels (HBO, etc) are encrypted and require the use of a CableCard tuner. There's a few out there on the market, most are single tuner only. Ceton has a 4 tuner cable card PCI-X card, and SiliconDust finally got approval for their CableCard Network Tuner, the HDHomeRun Prime and its available for preorder now.