TV on Windows: a trivia question

February 15th, 2006 | Uncategorized

Here’s a trivia question for you: When did Microsoft first build TV features (support for tuner cards, playback, online program guide) into Windows?

Answer here.

6 comments ↓

#1 Ed Bott’s Media Central » on 02.15.06 at 2:18 pm

[...] TV on Windows: a trivia question [...]

#2 Jake Ludington on 02.15.06 at 3:31 pm

The first tuner card I owned worked after a fashion with Windows 95. It crashed daily and had frequent driver conflicts, but when it worked, cable looked as great as television ever looks on a 17-inch CRT.

#3 Tim on 02.15.06 at 4:27 pm

(Looks over to the ‘Most Recent Posts’ section which is erroneously showing unpublished post titles…)

Er, was it 1998, by any chance, Ed?

#4 Brian Hoyt on 02.15.06 at 7:03 pm

In the OS Win 98, although I can’t say for certain if there was an add-on for 95.

#5 Robert on 03.16.06 at 1:48 pm

I had a TV Tuner built into te short lived Toshiba series desktop called “Infinia” that I owned in 1996 or 199, that shipped with Win95. So I definitely know there were applications on that machine that supported the card including a guide and recording to an .avi file, if I am recalling correctly.

I definitely remember having fun with doing screen captures from Cartoons for my kids

#6 Quiz Questions on 03.30.07 at 7:03 am

I was looking for exactly the same question/answer myself when I stumbled across your site. Thanks for the link too, makes searching further not necessary although one comment mentions 1996 - can that be right?