Television via Laptop

I was going to suggest Hulu until I read the 'real time' part!

Sorry I can't be of much help. I'm "Modern Times deficient" myself.

 

With today's digital television, picking up over the air broadcasts are enough of a pain when you are sitting still, trying to pull a signal in while in a moving vehicle is going to be dang near impossible. Your best bet is streaming over the internet, but with most of the internet providers limiting PC cards to 5 gigs that's not do-able either. The limitations don't apply to data plans on phones though. I'd get a good phone like the iPhone, the Palm Pre, or something similar. My mother has the Palm Pre with SprintTV and the picture is pretty impressive. They put all the latest TV shows on there, only a day or two after they air on broadcast TV. I have a Samsung Propel on AT&T, and it has all the latest tv shows on it as well, but the screen on my particular phone is pretty bad. More expensive phones look pretty amazing though.

Another thing I do, is I shrank my collection of DVDs, maybe 200 or so, and put them on an external hard drive. I've seen all the movies, but I have enough of them to keep me occupied. I also use the Red Box out of the Walmart Supercenters to rent DVDs. $1 a night, and you can whip into any Walmart and return them the next day.

 

I think Diesel Boss sells a View-Qube that will track while your moving
Give him a call

 

Correct. But not "from my laptop" as stated in her original post unless the laptop has a TV Tuner connection.

 

I carry a portable WD 1.5T hard drive with 700 movies or about 550GB on it. If I have time to watch all those movies, I'm driving for the wrong company.

Simplyred1962, If you do find a software program like that, please do share it. I have searched and have not found anything. I did find one website that might interest you>> www.channelchooser.com But it does bring you back to that 5g limit issue.

Like ragold mentioned. The Vue Cube or any SAT tracking dome is about your best bet in the truck. It is the same thing they use in RV's. I considered it at one point but thought the price was too high. Yet, I will go out and drop $1100 on a cpu/processor. go figure......

 

Hey Simplyred,
I thought of you when I was surfing for computer parts. I ran across this item, claims you can watch tv on your laptop. I have no idea or validation of it workings. So I would google the item and see if you can find any reviews on it. Maybe someone else on here could chime in with any opinion of their use.>> ASUS TV On PC, Digital (ATSC/QAM), High Gain Y-Type Antenna, WINDOWS7 Compatible

For some odd reason I could not get the link to correctly work, so that's a google product search of it. You can always check a site like zipzoomfly or pricewatch as well.

ASUS Manufacturer Part# 90-YT0AA1A-UAN2Z

RT

 

Red, Here is something else you might want to check out>>

TV Chrome Lets You Watch Television While Surfing The Net