TV on Windows: a trivia question

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 Responses to TV on Windows: a trivia question

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  • 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.

  • Tim says:

    (Looks over to the ‘Most Recent Posts’ section which is erroneously showing unpublished post titles…)

    Er, was it 1998, by any chance, Ed? :-)

  • Brian Hoyt says:

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

  • Robert says:

    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 :)

  • 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?