It does not matter whether it a laptop or desktop, but you should make sure it has a large hard drive to have an efficient PC-DVR. It not the smoothest program, but I found the setup process easier than other programs like Kodi and MediaPortal (which by the way do not say much). For example, you can invite all music and movies to a desktop PC with large hard drive, install Plex media server and then stream content on a laptop, smartphone, tablet or TV box like Roku, Chrome or Amazon Fire TV, it detects TV , let me see almost everything, including .AVI files encoded with DivX. (Home videos, of course.) It is also played directly from a USB stick or other USB storage device. If you are particularly proud of your game triumph, click Share to share your clip with other Xbox users: After uploading, the clip will appear on the Shared tab. If you want to stream from a desktop PC to other media devices (as for Plex specified), be aware that Windows DLNA sharing support by default (it not part of Windows Media Center, so I hope it not with Windows Et A site called AntennaWeb. Vcr To Pc Software more. org can answer that question and tell you what kind of antenna you need. (If you already watch OTA programs on TV without a PC in the mix, you done.) Your antenna will turn into the tuner, which again is connected to a USB port on your PC, I can also do Microsoft Office: Just download the trial version that matches your existing version and then activate it with the product key. They did not have TV elsewhere (well, except for a paid private torrent trackers) was secured about 3 years ago when I had this latest configuration set up and works so in Australia, where live TV is still alive and you can not go live that things may have changed there but from that I read, it really I do not.