We’re seeing a lot of new TV tuners at Computex, and Twinhan is working on an internal digital card for notebooks.

The company wouldn’t say which laptop makers plan to fit the Hybrid DVB-T Mini Card in their machines, but as it was being demonstrated in a BenQ notebook, I’d say that’s a fair bet for starters.

It would mean there’s no need to use an external tuner with your laptop, and should be with manufacturers by August. So it will be the fourth quarter until we see them in machines.

It is also one of the few manufacturers to build a device using the PC Express Card slot (the so far little used, but much faster, replacement for the PCMCIA slot on notebooks).

The Duo DVB-T Express Card will be available later this year, and Twinhan admitted that “right now there’s not much demand” for Express Cards.

Being a duo, it has can support two Freeview digital channels at the same time, so you can watch one, record another.

But, as ever at the moment, beware that elsewhere in Europe has a much stronger DVB-T signal than the UK, so to get all the channels, you will most likely have to hook it to your main household aerial.