Watch TV on Laptop

This is perfectly possible; you're probably just looking in the wrong direction.  Instead of looking for a "TV Tuner" device in PCMCIA/Cardbus format, there are plenty of "video capture" devices available.  You'll need something to select a channel to pipe into it, since they aren't tuners, but if you're sophisticated enough to have a laptop, can I assume you have a VCR?  There you have it.

Other options might include a number of USB devices, but most of these are also capture devices and again, require some other device to act as a tuner.  

You don't mention your model or make so it makes it just a little hard to make suggestions...

For example, my Thinkpad has built in TV capture and display as long as some external device such as a VCR supplies the tuning capability.  Do you have a Thinkpad, too?

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magarity

Oops!  Chopped half the links!

Here ya go... ATI card link and review.

http://www.ati.com/na/pages/products/pc/tv_wonder_usb/index.html
http://www.neoseeker.com/Articles/Hardware/Reviews/atitvwonderusb/

Strongly dont recommend. TV will always have better image quality for tv reception than crt monitors (including laptops). Monitors where not designed to run at low resolutions and refresh rates.

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Due to the fact that an RF converter is in use on the PCI cards, They would not be able to as of yet any way make a compatible PCMCIA type device.  The only viable option has already been given.  USB is the only solution possible for a laptop unless someone has come out with a way of making a Micro Converter device.

Some relevant articles for your endeavor.

Note it is for Hauppage USB already suggested above.
http://www.hauppauge.com/html/wintvpvrusb_datasheet.htm
http://www.rversonline.org/ArtSatLaptop.html

Here's one option for you.
a bit pricey but .........

http://www.margi.com/products/tvtogo.html

That's cool a PCMCIA based adapter, but it still seems that the RF converter is an external one.  Note the external box.

screwdriver,

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