Vista - Medion Laptop and watching TV

Hello,

As a real newbie to Vista, I have just bought a medion Laptop with a DVB-T
Tuner Express Card54, and Digital Aerial. I have tried many times to set up
the tuner to watch TV but don't seem to get anywhere. I am not an
experienced computer whizz, but neither am I a complete novice.
I live in the mountains of Sth West Wales, UK, and we don't get digital TV
as we can't get a good Ch 5 signal (we have to pay for Sky to even get a
decent picture). So I assume that is why I can't get Digital on the Laptop?
I am wondering if I should be able to get Analogue TV using this TV Card? I
have tried to connect my Analogue roof aerial to the laptop, but still no
TV.
I have tried to get Digital TV at my mother-in-laws house but still no joy
(she is in an area that can get digital).
I can understand that I may not be able to get digital here where I live,
but can't understand why I can't get anything in an are where I know that
you can get it.
I suppose I just want to know really if the TV Card is working as it is a
new laptop, but don't know what else to do.
Any advice will be gratefully received.
Regards,
Dalavon.

Hi Davalon,
Happens to have a Medion laptop to. I plugged in the TV card and since than
I can watch 3 stations that are in the air for free. For the other ones I
need to subscribe to one of the DTV companies. Maybe there are no free
stations on air at yours. The
card I got with the package was digital only, you also may purchase a
hybrid card or an analog one, the USB versions are most diverse.
I did not mention installing the TV frequencies. You did that in the Windows
Media center, you gave it a search loop there to automaticly install the free
programs, I guess, well than if there are any, you should be watching now.

Mind watching TV at home with your mother-in-law. She likes you to see her!
Succes, maby this was not what you hoped, but no answer is worse! And there
are a lot of people out there with no echo at all. Greetings from Holland.
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But:
Live gets better all the time!


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