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Five Ways to Watch TV on the Computer - Guide

Expanding PC’s Entertainment Capabilities

by Yaroslav Lyssenko

[ 08/03/2006 | 11:14 PM ]

For many year personal computers were considered to be office-only machines. This believe somehow changed with the arrival of numerous computer games, and computers became a usual seen in kids rooms. Nowadays PCs are no longer packed into dull plain cases, and it is becoming a normal thing to see a Small Form Factor system in a living room or a bedroom.

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Contemporary PC offers an impressive number of features and allows users to immerse themselves in games, music, movies, and television (TV). While there are no complications with playing games, listening to music and watching prerecorded movies, it is somehow harder to make you PC understand TV broadcast.

Big Bruin web-site has posted an article that offers a number of ways to solve the problem of merging TV and PC technologies. This guide explains how it is possible to get a TV broadcast to be shown on your monitor using the following devices: