news.com.com— The $179 OnAir GT by start-up AutumnWave is an ashtray-size high-definition tuner that plugs into your laptop, turning it into an HDTV set.
Oct 18, 2006View in Crawl 4
That assumes you even have OTA HDTV broadcasts available in your area. In Montreal, HDTV is only available via digital cable and satellite, both of which don't work with this tuner.Until tuners work with encrypted cable and satellite (Read: Never, and we don't have CableCard in Canada, which won't work with satellite anyhow), these things will be useless. The only solution will be an HDTV capture card and a digital cable or satellite TV box. An expensive and very non-portable proposition.
question: is there anything similar to this that I can use tho get HD inputs so i can play Xbox on my laptop screen and actually READ the text in dead rising?
pooslingerOct 18, 2006
Get an amp.
guspazOct 18, 2006
That assumes you even have OTA HDTV broadcasts available in your area. In Montreal, HDTV is only available via digital cable and satellite, both of which don't work with this tuner.Until tuners work with encrypted cable and satellite (Read: Never, and we don't have CableCard in Canada, which won't work with satellite anyhow), these things will be useless. The only solution will be an HDTV capture card and a digital cable or satellite TV box. An expensive and very non-portable proposition.
joerodOct 18, 2006
only for pc.... sux!!!!! the should make a mac with a build in hd tuner.
yuravianOct 19, 2006
question: is there anything similar to this that I can use tho get HD inputs so i can play Xbox on my laptop screen and actually READ the text in dead rising?
puppetjOct 20, 2006
this is even a better deal for the fusionhdtv-gold-usb ! <a class="user" href="http://store.snapstream.com/fusionhdtv-gold-usb.html">http://store.snapstream.com/fusionhdtv-gold-usb.html</a>
xlmediaOct 24, 2006
We just reviewed the OnAir GT and were able to tune into 25 digital channels, including 7 HD channels. The quality of the HD picture is excellent and you can view screengrabs at <a class="user" href="http://www.notebooks.com/?p=149">http://www.notebooks.com/?p=149</a>
emaczDec 21, 2006
Mmmm.... Guspaz, you CAN get limited OTA HDTV in Montreal... and in most other Canadian cities. <a class="user" href="http://www.digitalhome.ca/hdtv/idx/15/409/HDTV_Overviews/article/How_can_I_get_CBC_HD.html">http://www.digitalhome.ca/hdtv/idx/15/409/HDTV_Overviews/article/How_can_I_get_CBC_HD.html</a>