Cable TV, wherever you want it

Relax with digital cable, right on your PC

Wouldn’t it be great to have cable TV throughout your home—in your living room, home office, kitchen—by simply powering up your PC or laptop? How about watching your favorite team or live cable show on a PC while completing a work at the same time? With its multifunctional line of ClearQAM-ready TV tuner product line, Pinnacle Systems makes it possible. Let’s follow Claire, a work-at-home freelancer, as she steals a few minutes during her hectic day to unwind with her computers and a Pinnacle PCTV mini Stick.

Juggling responsibilities and a little bit of downtime

Claire loves to relax. But with her frenetic schedule and numerous responsibilities, she rarely gets the chance. That’s why she cherishes spare moments when she can fire up her PC or laptop, sit back, and tune in to her favorite cable program.

Earlier in the day, Claire’s key client cancelled an important meeting. Claire was secretly delighted. She grabbed her Pinnacle PCTV mini Stick with built-in ClearQAM technology—giving cable subscribers access to high-definition cable TV on a laptop or PC. Claire slid one end of the sleek TV tuner into her PC’s USB port and attached the other end to her digital cable drop. For one relaxing hour, she indulged in crystal clear digital cable TV, right in her home office. When the dialog dragged on, she used the time shifting mode, included in the Pinnacle TVCenter software that comes with each PCTV, to fast-forward to her favorite part of the program—the main characters’ forbidden romance. When the phone rang and a client asked for a rush project, Claire continued watching her show on the same PC that she used to complete the rush job.

After a busy morning in her home office, Claire walked her boys to her neighbor Judy’s house. Judy was Claire’s tennis partner, but today Judy cashed in on a promise Claire had made to help paint the master bedroom. It was a dull task; thankfully, Judy subscribed to basic cable and Claire had brought her laptop and the PCTV mini Stick. As they transformed the room from green to blue, Claire and Judy enjoyed watching a live tennis match right on Claire’s laptop.

By dinnertime, Claire was exhausted. She returned home with the kids and headed for the kitchen. With a strong cup of coffee and her tuner stick, Claire turned on her favorite cable TV cooking show in brilliant highdefinition, right on her laptop. As she started preparing dinner, Claire decided to record every episode of the cooking show on her PC’s hard drive and refer to them whenever she needed a new dinner idea.