Deceased 02/10/2010 - R.I.P.
Ducati Corse
Posts: 3,170
Join Date: Feb 2002
Location: Darlington, Co. Durham
Mood: NGRRC Minitwins champion 2007
You can get a much more compact usb tv stick from Freecom - Maplins and PC World sell it for about £45. It works well with a decent hi-gain antenna also available from Maplins for about another £20.
The supplied antenna are rubbish.
You need a fair bit of horsepower to drive these things though...my 1.3Ghz laptop was well within the minimum hardware specs but still crawled along and tv was a bit jerky.