Laptop Windows Media Center

I've installed this tuner in my ancient HP Pavilion DV6000 laptop with Windows Media Center installed, and it's working flawlessly. The only minor thing is that Windows 7 won't recognize the tuner automatically, and therefore you'll need to install the drivers manually plus reboot the machine at the end of the installation process. If you already have the Windows Media Center configured with a different tuner then you will also need to manually run the TV setup again which includes providing the zip code, scanning for the channels etc. The dual tuner eliminates the need to change the channel to record something while you're watching a different channel. I've not noticed any performance issues when WMC was recording two channels at once, and this is running on a 2007 laptop with 8Gb of memory. In summary, this is a must have product if you are using Windows Media Center.

Hooled it up to windows vista computer and it picked it up right away to work with windows media center just like I wanted it to.

Plugged it in. Instantly recognized. Set-up and interface with Windows Media Center was very easy.I have yet to record anything but the quality of the HD video was impressive. I won't toss the old SVHS machine yet but this is definitely a great update!

Windows Media Center PC in a low profile case only had 1 slot for a 3.5 hard drive. I wanted to store my recorded TV (PVR) to a larger capacity hard drive but maintain my Windows 7 to a smaller SSD. This was the ideal way to get both the SSD and larger laptop hard drive into 1 space.

I already had the VLC media player ap installed on my windows 10 laptop, so when I plugged this into my USB port straight from the box, it was recognized and functioned immediately. If your computer doesn't have a driver, Transcend provides one free, but you must download one in order to use external drives--perhaps that's why some users claim their player wouldn't work?

Excellent for heavy laptop use. I've not seen any heating issues. I didnt do Windows transfer, just booted from media and did fresh install. Very happy with the purchase and performance

I needed an all in one for my media center and this works great!

The absolute center attraction in our new Media Room.

I love my laptop, its fast and works great. My desktop is Windows 7 pro and this comes with windows 8.1 home. I just need to upgrade it to pro and I'm good to go.

Exactly as described. Works flawlessly on my windows 10 server running my Plex media.