<p>any of you have one ? how good is the picture quality, how much do they cost, and is there a special one for macs ? thanks ;]</p>
<p>My dad bought one for me made by Monster for the TV. The guys at Good Guys said with a conditioner, the picture quality is near HDTV quality. I believe the thing was 49 dollars.</p>
<p>are there cable hookups in our rooms that i can connect to the tuner? or is cable only available in a lounge where lots of people can watch?</p>
<p>No cable is available in all rooms.</p>
<p>I wouldn't say anywhere near HDTV, but they're not bad... (unless of course, you buy an HDTV tuner card, which would obviously be HDTV quality).
* downside to hdtv tuner : you need a fairly large antenna usually, your roommate may be kindof ****ed.</p>
<p>TV tuners just receive TV signals. It's the same picture quality as you would receive on a normal TV.</p>
<p>The difference is if you want PVR (Personal Video Recorder e.g. TiVo) and the lag between signal to picture (important if you want to hook up a video game console).</p>
<p>HDTV tuners exists but they only capture a certain signal which renders them kind of useless.</p>
<p>And finally, sales persons will say anything to make you buy it. Not sure what they mean by a 'conditioner' but it's most likely nothing more than a hardware encoder that's applying some filters to the picture.</p>
<p>i was thinking about bittorrent to download tv shows, but I don't want to get in trouble or anything. Is it safe to use? any of you guys use it?</p>
<p>I doubt you'll end up doing it, pinkearmufs. I doubt you'll be watching the amount of tv you do now (coming from me, someone who watches a whole lot more tv than is healthy).</p>
<p>But if you really want to download, I doubt itll be a big deal. Downloading tv is kindof in the grey area... its not strictly illegal like stealing music or movies, and I dont think anyone has been sued for "stealing" a show which was aired for free in the first place. </p>
<p>The bigger problem you'd have is the 5GB/week maximum. If you stay under there, you'll probably be fine.</p>
<p>You're right hehe the only show I'll bother to download is Lost. what a great show ;)</p>
<p>I never actually got into lost. I'm glad though:</p>
<p>Ive never had as much fun watching a show every week as I have going on a binge for like 2 weeks and watching a whole season at once. </p>
<p>The only show I love to see is The Wire, I can never wait for it to come out on DVD. The fourth season probably wont air for another 6 months to a year so I'm not worrying yet. Sopranos may start in January 2006, but Im not holding my breath for that either (I dont think they were ever on time for a season since they started).</p>
<p>the Sopranos were actually filming in my town the other day. It was some wedding scene.</p>
<p>Thats awesome. Although, if you know any more, please dont tell me.
I was seriously angry around the end of Friends, when they announced Drea de Matteo would be playing Joey's sister in the spinoff. </p>
<p>Didn't take much of an imagination to figure out what would happen to Adriana (her character for anyone who doesnt watch Sopranos) in the fifth season...</p>