Yup! I know that sounds great!

What you’ll need is a small lighter size portable TV tuner from Pinnacle. It comes with a remote control and a small telescopic antenna to pull in free over-the-air digital TV broadcasts.

Just plugin the Pinnacle PCTV HD Pro Stick to your USB port and walla! you’re suppose to get HDTV in your laptop. Well, that’s the ideal case. The UsaToday columnist Edward Baig tested this gadget and decided the Pinnacle PCTV tuner needs further tweaking before it can be fully operational.

He said that “in my basement office, I could pick up only three digital channels and three analog channels. They were mostly unwatchable.”

When the antenna (and laptop) was placed next to a window “the quality on some of the 17 digital channels (a handful in HD) and 17 analog channels I received was still spotty”.

In conclusion, he throwed up his towel and decided that “Pinnacle has to address the bugs before I can recommend the PCTV HD Pro Stick, especially to laptop users with older systems. For now, give me HDTV the traditional way — in front of a big TV.”

Well, sorry folks. It seems that we need to wait another year or so ..

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