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    Motorollow junior is going to Texas A&M in the Fall, and he has a Gateway 24" 1080p LCD monitor that he wants to use as a TV. The dorm provides a coax connection for cable TV but the monitor does not have a coax connection (but it every other kind of connection: HDMI, DVI, VGA, RGB, RCA & USB).

    Does anyone have a recommendation for a non-computer dependent TV tuner that actually works well?

    Thanks!
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    No specific experience recently... my dad used to have a Mitsubishi monitor with a stand-alone TV tuner. Something like this...

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    There are HDTV tuner cards that you can plub into a usb slot or a pci slot and watch tv on the computer that way.

    Something like this
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    I was thinking about buying this, but it may be more than he needs.
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    On a related subject, has anyone had any luck with any of the wireless TV transmitters on the market? I'd like to add a TV in the shop at some point down the road, but running a line out there is not something I want to deal with.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Titus View Post
    On a related subject, has anyone had any luck with any of the wireless TV transmitters on the market? I'd like to add a TV in the shop at some point down the road, but running a line out there is not something I want to deal with.

    I assume you are going to have wireless internet, so how about a Slingbox?
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    AppleTV?
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