TV tuner inside a PCMCIA card. Technologically possible?

They've had TV Tuner cards since the 1990 - I remember reading in MacUser of a MacTV card - a tuner on a NuBus card. - they didn't sell too many so they were discontinued. Apple used to include TV Tuners with the Performas.

I don't know if you can still buy TV Tuner cards - these days it seems USB based devices like eyeTV are all that are available.

someone posted this in my thread about Gamecubes

http://www.meilenstein.de/

I don't think you understand. I am talking about TV RF tuners, not the baseband NTSC processors. The latter ones have been miniaturized, the RF tuners are still the same size as they were in 1985.

http://baber.com/laptops/tvtogo.htm

doesn't look like they were able to fit it all on a pcmcia card.

edited: the mpeg capture card is available separately. The tuner is sorta just an add-on thingy...but, hey, at least it isn't a yukky USB interface.

You can't get much smaller than this:

http://www.palminfocenter.com/view_story.asp?ID=5122
http://www.palminfocenter.com/view_story.asp?ID=6013
http://www.palminfocenter.com/view_story.asp?ID=4434

I rather drop a cardbus card to the PowerBook than external solution. If the price is right with good software package, I would jump to the PowerBook world again.

I wish. A nice solution would be one that has a mini dongle for svideo/av/cable input and then without the dongle be able to tune into over-the-air channels (and am/fm!)

That would be a nice device, and definately possible these days. Something like that would get me buying a pb15 in no time