What is a USB TV Tuner?
A USB TV tuner is a device that allows you to watch television programs through your desktop computer or notebook. A USB TV tuner has input ports to connect to the outgoing ports on your television or entertainment center receiver. The digital or analog television signals travel through coaxial or composite video cable respectively to the USB TV tuner, which translates the signals as necessary to view on the PC. The device utilizes an available USB port on the computer. Using a USB, TV tuner one can simply watch TV or manipulate the data in various ways. Every USB TV tuner has its own hardware specifications and software, so not all products are equal in functionality, ease of use or picture quality. Most USB TV tuners allow live TV to be paused, rewound and fast-forwarded. Some models come with software tools to burn incoming programs to DVD, along with advanced editing features. Some allow the user to pull still images from streaming TV and convert them to various graphic files, or u
