Oh well, I'll stick to my tuner card that lets me stream outside from home too.

This reminds me a little bit of what I could do when I still used analog cable and my tuner card via Orb.

To use the electronic program guide, however, owners will have to install a tuner card that allows a personal computer to serve as a television receiver.

There are currently four kinds of tuner card on the market:

The tuner cards with this 'hardware encoding' are generally thought of as being higher quality.

Well, I didn't play with this too much, though messing with VideoRecorder and my TV tuner card for a while was somewhat entertaining.

In 1996 Gateway Computer unveiled the Destination computer that included a tuner card and video card.

Two years ago, it offered tuner cards as a standard option on every personal computer it sold.

Lawrence Sennett, a spokesman for the Hewlett-Packard Corporation, said his company had no interest in taking the discount and installing tuner cards.

If you have a tuner card in your media center PC, the Zune software will recognize and transcode shows recorded from analog, but that's it.