What is a Cardbus?

[chakka35]

I have found in a drawer a package, which I didn't know I had, which contains an AVerTV Cardbus, complete with all manner of connecting cables, a remote control, but, alas, no user manual.
Research on the internet gives me specs of the device but, naturally I suppose, assumes that I know what it is. But I don't, though I gather that it might be something to do with receiving analogue and digital TV on a laptop...?? Neither can I find a user manual for it.

Can anyone enlighten me, please?

[ABerrant]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PC_Card#CardBus

[chakka35]

Thanks, ABerrant, but, no fault of yours, I still have no idea what the Cardbus does, why I would want one, what I plug it into and what it will do for me when I have. I need more elementary information, please. Thanks.

[rojash]

Many moons ago, laptops came with one or two extra sockets. These were called PCMCIA socets, and allowed you to plug in extra devices (of the sort that would usually go into internal slots in a desktop PC). The most common devices were modems, network cards, etc. The later versions were called cardbus, and (I beleive) even later were just called PC cards. It was also possible to buy a device which fitted into your desktop computer so that you could use the same cards in both your laptop and your PC, but that never really caught on.

If you don't have a laptop or PC that has a Cardbus socket, then the device that you've found is just so much obsolete junk.

[hc4361]

My laptop has a cardbus slot. Your card would enable me to plug an ariel in and watch tv.

[chakka35]

Thanks, folks. All is clear. Since neither my PC nor my laptop have a Cardbus slot, that's the end of that. Thanks again.