in a laptop.....i love my TV tuner, when i am on the go, it sometimes comes in handy. but really, i use DVDs more, so depends on teh user. i personally wouldnt spend more than a 100$ extra for a tv tuner. What laptop are you looking at?
i've got a PCI one in my desktop...though you wouldn't be able to use one like that so it really doesn't help you much.
but i really like mine though, they're pretty useful but since TV's use something like 640x480 resolution it gets a little annoying on the computer monitor as i'm used to a 1440x900 monitor.
so yeah, i'd definately say that's the only real setback for them...that the highest resolution you can get them to work at is 640x480 but you can still do fullscreen and stuff and it'll be very watchable unless you're obsesive compulsive about that kinda thing.
Hauppauge WinTV PVR-150, I have two of them. Soon I will have this card, but they don't write drivers for Windows, just Linux, so you'd have to find something else.
in a laptop.....i love my TV tuner, when i am on the go, it sometimes comes in handy. but really, i use DVDs more, so depends on teh user. i personally wouldnt spend more than a 100$ extra for a tv tuner. What laptop are you looking at?