What is the best TV tuner card now on the market?

I want to watch & record TV on my laptop, I think using a TV tuner card but no nothing about them! Help!?

• I've searched on the internet for info on TV tuner cards and apparently that's what I'll need to be able to watch and record TV on my laptop. Basically what I want to do is watch TV on my laptop wherever I go. Is a TV tuner what I need? Do I need a stick or a card? Is Hauppage any good? I've read some reviews and apparently they're rubbish so are there any good ones around? And what do I need? I've heard they come with a portable antenna too, whereas I thought I'd just plug the card into the PCI slot and there you go, I'd have all of the freeview channels, but apparently I need to use the portable antenna or attach a TV aerial to the computer.. thing is I don't have anywhere on my laptop where I can attach the TV aerial AND i want to watch TV on the move, which I obviously can't do if I have to attach a TV aerial. Can someone just please explain to me what I need to get freeview channels on my laptop using a tv tuner card or whatever, which I can record to my laptop or external hard drive, and also put onto my iPhone, examples of good ones to buy and where to get them (UK), and any extras I need to purchase, i.e. if I need a better antenna than the one that apparently comes with the tuner card to access the channels on the move please?... And how to install them, in the most basic way you can! (I've watched youtube videos and searched loads of Google pages, even a pretty basic hubpage and still can't get my head around it all). Thanks so much! I'm in the UK too by the way :)

• Answer:

  I think to be able to use a tuner card, you would need a desktop, not a laptop, because you'd have to install it inside the system. Laptops are fairly hard to upgrade.