"Barry Watzman" <WatzmanNOSPAM@neo.rr.com> wrote in message
news:h1orjp$fqp$1@news.eternal-september.org...
>I didn't say ALL; but most of these devices use one of a small number of
>chips and, in fact, many of them are identical. My comments can only be
>strictly construed to apply to the Hauppauge 950Q. But the specs for many
>(MANY; not ALL) other devices are similar and, as I noted, many of them use
>the same chip(s) inside.
>
>
> Pete D wrote:
>> "Barry Watzman" <WatzmanNOSPAM@neo.rr.com> wrote in message
>> news:h1mihn$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

Sorry I thought I read that you said "virtually all", my bad I guess.