Here&#39;s my poor man&#39;s bare-bones solution<br><br>1. Get a way to capture the output from the Telly and feed that as a Mic input into the Laptop. <br>I&#39;m thinking in the line of suitable audio cables depending on what your telly has for output connectivity.<br>
<br>2. Install Freecoder on your laptop : Available from <a href="http://freecorder.com/">http://freecorder.com/</a><br>3. Tweak your contraption as necessary.  <br><br>Here&#39;s  some quick reference for you to get the perspective :<br>
<br><a href="http://www.geek.com/articles/gadgets/review-freecorder-records-any-audio-played-on-your-pc-for-free-20070821/">http://www.geek.com/articles/gadgets/review-freecorder-records-any-audio-played-on-your-pc-for-free-20070821/</a> <br>
<br>PS : When Pluto was still a planet,  during the Audio Tape (Cassette) &lt;--&gt; Audio CD transition, that&#39;s how we used to convert our Musical relics into digital format. Back then, in place of a 3rd Party Software, most of our PC sound-card drivers came with some nifty tools to achieve the same.<br>