TV tuners for PCs have been around for quite some time, but I never really felt a need for one. Then, earlier this year, a gal from Xceive, which makes silicon tuners, sent me a USB-stick TV tuner from one of the companies they deal with. It worked surprisingly well, and after using it for a while, I thought better of TV on the PC. Even though my computer sits in a room with a TV, I found it very convenient to have a program—usually a baseball game—playing in a small window in the upper right corner of the display while I continued working in the remaining space, checking e-mail, surfing the web, and so forth. But after a couple of weeks, I had to return that item.