can you whatch T.V. with laptop?

Question

i want to know if it's posible to watch T.V with the laptop i'm about to buy. i also wanted to know if it's going to be free to watch T.V.
and i also need to know:
how many chanels can you get?
what's the best card for it?
for your information i live in UK.

Answer 1

You can watch TV (for free, if it's free to air TV) if you have a tuner card (or one is built into the machine).

A TV tuner card is a computer component that allows television signals to be received by a computer. Most TV tuners also function as video capture cards, allowing them to record television programs onto a hard drive.

While typically a PCI-bus expansion card, they can also be a USB device. Some video cards double as TV tuners, notably the ATI All-In-Wonder series. The card contains a receiver, tuner, demodulator, and a analog-to-digital converter for analog TV. Like TV sets, each version is designed for the radio frequencies and video formats used in each country. However, many TV tuners used in computers use DSP, so a firmware upgrade is often all that's necessary to change the supported video format. Many newer TV tuners have flash memory big enough to hold the firmwares for decoding several different video formats, making it possible to use the tuner in many countries without having to flash the firmware. In addition to the frequency tuner, many include a composite video input. Many TV tuners can function as FM radios: this is because the FM radio spectrum lies between television channels 6 and 7, and the DSP can be easily programmed to decode FM.
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Answer 2

There are two ways of watching TV on your laptop.
1. Download the TV programing from the network and pay for a subscription. Or wait until the next day and download it from www.torrentz.com.
2. Get a PCMCIA TV in card and watch it from your local cable or satellite provider.

Answer 3

You will not be able to watch TV,Before you buy the laptop ask in the shop all of your questions?