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Thread: Laptop TV Tuner

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    Yeah,I'm not sure if it's just because it's a Canadian account through netflix.ca or not.I tried it last month when I was there and it worked.On both the Mac and the iPad.

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    Quote Originally Posted by mick View Post

    Mick, you have really opened up a can of worms with this one.... the short answer is probably not, and even worse, you are going to have a very difficult time getting your hands on one that will work in the UK. Unless you are REALLY interested in what's going on, you can probably stop reading now.

    It's all a lot more complex and confused than I intially thought. BUT the geek in me just won't let it go so I did a lot more googling.

    The long answer is ........

    The stick in the link above is for the digital DTB-T2 standard which is currently the standard for Europe and the UK among other places for HD digital TV transmissions. The US and Canada uses ATSC exclusively now for broadcast. The US used to use NTSC for broadcast but that went away when the FCC mandated the change to digital. Tuners for one standard will not work for the other.

    All that aside... What does Jamaica use? The best I can figure, they are still NTSC. I also do not ever remember seeing a TV in Jamaica that was not connected to a Satellite box.... So I am not even sure getting TV over the air is even done there. I found several maps that showed which digital standard is used where, and Jamaica is listed as having no standard on all of them. Unfortunately, it looks like almost everything you can buy in the UK is DVB-T2 and everything in the US is ATSC now. There does not seem to be many USB analog NTSC tuners available anymore. For you it could be even tougher, as you need to find a US style NTSC analog tuner versus the PAL version.

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    my US netflix account was able to watch movies in jamaica via my lime 3g service.. however some shows were blocked.. family guy, cleveland show, king of the hill - none of these were visible in jamaica.. but some movies did work

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    Hey Spiff , Thanks for everything appreciated .

    p.s what about this beauty from hong kong ? http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/NTSC-PAL-S...#ht_3433wt_952

    or i'll buy the one from Jam

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    Quote Originally Posted by mick View Post
    Hey Spiff , Thanks for everything appreciated .

    p.s what about this beauty from hong kong ? http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/NTSC-PAL-S...#ht_3433wt_952

    or i'll buy the one from Jam
    If your laptop has a free PCMIA slot then you have got yourself a winner there!

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    I connect to the vpn at work. It spoofs a us ip and i get pandora and all sites to work. Also have a slingbox at home so i can watch my home tv and dvr.

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