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Thread ID: 122073 2011-11-29 00:01:00 Can a netbook run a TV card? RusEvo (3572) Press F1
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1246197 2011-11-29 18:58:00 The recording side of the tuner card will be fine, and runs on quite small hardware....."recording" a digital stream is quite easy on hardware, and all it's doing is converting the digital stream to data on the harddrive.

Playback however is another thing entirely. And since you haven't specified the video chip (which may mean it's not listed) I doubt it has the grunt to decode the video.
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1246198 2011-11-29 19:23:00 I was able to play back h.264 video @ 720p on my Toshiba NB200 (Dual-core 1.6Ghz Atom). Chilling_Silence (9)
1246199 2011-12-04 19:46:00 Netbooks can barely run themselves. And as for Acer - wouldn't go near it if you paid me.Why not? I'm currently an owner of an Acer and it does quite well. RusEvo (3572)
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