Tuesday, September 22, 2009

HP ExpressCard EC300 DVB-T TV Tuner on my IBM T43 Thinkpad



Hi there People,

I just acquired an HP ExpressCard EC300 DVB-T TV Tuner which came with my HP Pavilion entertainment laptop and i was just wandering how it'll run on my IBM T43 thinkpad.

I inserted the TV Card right into the express card slot(I didn't know my T43 had one Cool !!) and installed the drivers.
Then i ran Windows media Centre, went through a few menus to configure the card and then scanned for TV channels.

I picked up 82 Channels and the reception was perfect. My experience with Small / USB stick sized TV tuners haven't been very good in the past. The situation has always been that i got some channels and didn't others. Those i did get weren't as clear as they should be.

The HP ExpressCard EC300 DVB-T TV Tuner blew me away as it worked perfectly. I wasn't expecting such a
small card to work as well as it does.

Brief Laptop Specs
  • ThinkPad T43 2668-CTO
  • Pentium Mobile 2.0GHZ
  • 2GB RAM
  • ATI MOBILITY RADEON X300 128MB VIDEO RAM
  • WINDOWS XP MEDIA CENTRE EDITION
I just thought I'd share this with you guys.