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Bench Warmer · 10-18-2007, 09:02 PM

I'm in the market for a new laptop. I've been doing some research and I'd like to be able to get a laptop that has the functionality or possibly some external unit (like WinTV-PVR-usb) to be able to plug my laptop into my satellite receiver and use the laptop as a PVR. Has anybody done this? Is it even possible? I'm not that technically savvy so any advice is good. What do I need on my laptop, what's a good PVR product and such. Would Slingbox work for this? I'm in the early research stage so any advice would be most helpful...

10-18-2007, 09:02 PM	#1
Bench Warmer Scoring Winger Join Date: Apr 2004 Exp:	Turn my laptop into a PVR I'm in the market for a new laptop. I've been doing some research and I'd like to be able to get a laptop that has the functionality or possibly some external unit (like WinTV-PVR-usb) to be able to plug my laptop into my satellite receiver and use the laptop as a PVR. Has anybody done this? Is it even possible? I'm not that technically savvy so any advice is good. What do I need on my laptop, what's a good PVR product and such. Would Slingbox work for this? I'm in the early research stage so any advice would be most helpful...