Good news to fellow British laptop owners, from next month onwards you will be able to watch digital terrestrial TV (as well as tune in to DVB-T radio in available region) on your laptop with help of the little PCTV USB Stick external TV tuner produced by Pinnacle Systems.
Other than watching your favourite TV programs, you could also record them using the bundled software. You can record TV or radio shows to your hard disk in MPEG- 1/-2 or DivX format. This product requires Windows XP with latest Service Pack, Intel Pentium 3 1.0 GHz or equivalent AMD Athlon XP (recommended: Intel Pentium 4 2.2 GHz or equivalent AMD® Athlon® 64), and 256 MB RAM (512 MB recommended). For full specifications, please check out Pinnacle’s website.
The Pinnacle PCTV USB Stick will be retailed at the price of £49.99 (around US$87).
