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Use Your Laptop to Record TV Shows

Posted at 22:36, 15/05/2008 by LauraWilliams

Why buy a DVR to record TV shows when your laptop can easily do the same thing? Popsci.com

explains everything you need to know.

"Digital video recorders—those set-top boxes from TiVo, ReplayTV or your cable company—are nothing more than single-purpose computers that store video on a hard drive. But you don't need a dedicated box for that; any computer with a TV tuner and recording software can do double duty as a DVR. Although you can use any of a number of external devices to give your PC or Mac DVR-functionality, the Instant TV for Notebooks card ($110; adstech.com

) does it straight from the card slot on the side of a laptop. Just plug it in, install the software, and connect your video source, and you can watch, pause, and record live TV on your laptop."

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