Windows Media TV Tuner Channels?

I have some TV tuner questions that need to be answered before i buy.?

• i just hooked up windows media center to my xbox and i would like to know a few questions. 1. how much is an average tv tuner for a laptop. (an external one)? 2. i heard if you have two tv tuners you can record two tv channels at once . can someone go into more detail about this? 3. are tv tuners easy to install? 4. Do i have to buy special software? 5. will i be able to run the cable to my comp. to my xbox then to the tv? 6 How is the quality of the cable? 7. can i rewind and pause my tv? i have a laptop is their any additional info i need to know?

• Answer:

  http://www.hauppauge.com/ I really don't have a great desired to spend all of my time doing your work, so this site has what you need to know. Read it. As far as using a laptop and having two tuners... a couple words of caution. What you are looking at doing is probably pretty CPU and *IS* very hard drive intensive. A relatively few shows will eat up a 100GB of space before you even realize it, so you need to make sure you have a fairly powerful CPU and a heck of a large disk. On top of that, laptops tend to have slowly hard drives to save juice, whereas AV drives are usually pretty powerful. So bottom line is, I am not sure you CAN do what you want.