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Ritchie888
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Hey guys..
i was looking at a few forums on this site and iv noticed u guys seem to know what your talking about
anyway.. im a total n00b about all this so please ignor this post if its been asked before...
in the next couple of months i will be going to uni, and being a tv watcher (isnt everyone?) i want to watch tv when i go away..
of cause i could take my tv, buy a tv licence and watch the 'exciting' 4 channels... to me this doesnt seem worth the £131 tv licence
iv looked into getting a tv card or tv usb stick... possibly a hybrid one so i can get analogue and digital signals?
i have a laptop (so it will possibly have to be external) with xp and what i believe to be a quite high spec
therefor i can pick up freeview channels and serveral hundred foreign channels
(or so iv been led to believe) which seems alot better.
then looking in some of your other posts iv noticed that there is a way of getting sky with one of these tv cards/usb sticks (in some cases, free sky)
which seemed very appealing to me..
unfortunetly it was a bit over my head and didnt quite understand it...
i was hoping that someone could:
explain all what iv said is true/false and correct me of my ways..
tell me what my options are in the way of free television using a laptop
explain what i will need hardware/software
thanks in advance and sorry if this has already been covered in another post
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Ritchie
i was looking at a few forums on this site and iv noticed u guys seem to know what your talking about
anyway.. im a total n00b about all this so please ignor this post if its been asked before...
in the next couple of months i will be going to uni, and being a tv watcher (isnt everyone?) i want to watch tv when i go away..
of cause i could take my tv, buy a tv licence and watch the 'exciting' 4 channels... to me this doesnt seem worth the £131 tv licence
iv looked into getting a tv card or tv usb stick... possibly a hybrid one so i can get analogue and digital signals?
i have a laptop (so it will possibly have to be external) with xp and what i believe to be a quite high spec
therefor i can pick up freeview channels and serveral hundred foreign channels
(or so iv been led to believe) which seems alot better.
then looking in some of your other posts iv noticed that there is a way of getting sky with one of these tv cards/usb sticks (in some cases, free sky)
which seemed very appealing to me..
unfortunetly it was a bit over my head and didnt quite understand it...
i was hoping that someone could:
explain all what iv said is true/false and correct me of my ways..
tell me what my options are in the way of free television using a laptop
explain what i will need hardware/software
thanks in advance and sorry if this has already been covered in another post
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Ritchie