"Barry Watzman" <WatzmanNOSPAM@neo.rr.com> wrote in message
news:h1mihn$mgh$1@news.eternal-september.org...
> Be careful; NTSC is dead, and many (most? virtually all?) of the USB tv
> tuners require a tremendous amount of decoding to be done by the CPU, and
> have a minimum CPU requirement that is WAY above ANY CPUs present in any
> netbooks. I have a Hauppauge 950Q, and it's fine for laptops that have
> enough CPU to process the data, but the spec, at least, is a 1.8GHz
> Centrino MINIMUM just to watch, and to record, a dual core.

Not sure that you are right because my Aldi USB digital TV unit works just
fine on my ASUS 1000H Netbook, I will admit I have not tried recording
though.

Cheers.

Pete