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A question for those with TV tuners in their PCs: does everyone else find that they are much more susceptible to interference than the tuners inbuilt in TVs? Any tuner I put in my parents' Shuttle *always* gets worse signal than their Samsung's inbuilt tuner, and always lose the signal much faster with bad weather. The Shuttle sits under the TV and the two aerial cables run parallel up to the aerial. I found the same with my own PC TV tuner in my house in comparison to the lounge TV; in this case my PC's tuner would always go down when the washing machine started up (the apartment's aerial booster was mounted next to the washing machine 
) whereas the TV would be fine.
In the first case I'm using the same (shielded) aerial cable for both TV and Shuttle; in the second case I'm using decent shielded cable from the booster to my PC, but only crappy old thin cable to the TV. In both cases the signal at the TV is always much more robust than the PC. Am I just expecting too much from my PCs or should I be buying £100 tuner cards rather than £50 ones ...
) whereas the TV would be fine.In the first case I'm using the same (shielded) aerial cable for both TV and Shuttle; in the second case I'm using decent shielded cable from the booster to my PC, but only crappy old thin cable to the TV. In both cases the signal at the TV is always much more robust than the PC. Am I just expecting too much from my PCs or should I be buying £100 tuner cards rather than £50 ones ...
