Purchase an Acer Aspire L320 at Comex 2007 with 3 years warranty. Nice and quiet book size minipc, even smaller than my SVC cable box 
I bought the top of the line unit with a tv-tuner card as part of my entertainment system. The sales person showed me the vaious ports (tv-in, av-in, tv out, digital autio out, etc) so I bought it without a bundled monitor as I intended to connect to my TV.
Some problems I find with the L320 (top of the line model with TV Tuner):
1. Documentation - VERY bad. There is NO documentation describing contents in the box. I have some items which I have to gess what they are and where they fit. For example, I see a small black rectangular box that has a USB connection. I guess it is probably the receiver for the remote control. Then there is a little bean thing with a thin long cable (probably an IR Blaster). No parts description, I think it connects to one of the 2 holes of the above mentioned remove control receiver device. I have no idea what this is for an whether the connection is right. The user guide is a generic Acer Aspire L series guide that does not mention my model or the various ports relating to the TV Tuner card).
2. Technical Support - Seems that they don't even know what they are selling. I was able to watch live tv signal from AV port of my cable tv box to the AV-in ports (video and audio RCS connection) on my LCD monitor but not able to send the signal out to my other LCD tv through the s-video tv out port. I called them up, after some digging, the tech support say they do not even have an L320 (they only have L310) and he has NEVER seen the L320 with a tv runer card and cannot confirm if it has a tv-out port. He cannot find any documentation either on this and ask me to take a picture of the back of the computer to email to him! How stupid.
3. TV SVideo out is not working. I connected it to my TV and cannot see anything. It is not detecfted by the system.
4. TV tuner - tuned channels are not sharp/clear. Only when using AV In port do I get a clear image.
Now I just need to find out how the FM receiver works as I cannot find any app (or Vista Media Center setup/screen) that deals with listening to FM radio. Does anyone know how to setup Vista Media Centre to receive and playback FM signal? I don't see anything about Radio setup in the setup screen. The FM/TV tuner in the Acer is a Yuan MPC788.
I have reported the problem to Acer Technical Support. The guy that came out to check on the system seemed like he never saw a unit with the TV tuner card before. I had to show him the functions and what was not working. He took the unit back to Acer for diagnostic.
I bought the top of the line unit with a tv-tuner card as part of my entertainment system. The sales person showed me the vaious ports (tv-in, av-in, tv out, digital autio out, etc) so I bought it without a bundled monitor as I intended to connect to my TV.Some problems I find with the L320 (top of the line model with TV Tuner):
1. Documentation - VERY bad. There is NO documentation describing contents in the box. I have some items which I have to gess what they are and where they fit. For example, I see a small black rectangular box that has a USB connection. I guess it is probably the receiver for the remote control. Then there is a little bean thing with a thin long cable (probably an IR Blaster). No parts description, I think it connects to one of the 2 holes of the above mentioned remove control receiver device. I have no idea what this is for an whether the connection is right. The user guide is a generic Acer Aspire L series guide that does not mention my model or the various ports relating to the TV Tuner card).
2. Technical Support - Seems that they don't even know what they are selling. I was able to watch live tv signal from AV port of my cable tv box to the AV-in ports (video and audio RCS connection) on my LCD monitor but not able to send the signal out to my other LCD tv through the s-video tv out port. I called them up, after some digging, the tech support say they do not even have an L320 (they only have L310) and he has NEVER seen the L320 with a tv runer card and cannot confirm if it has a tv-out port. He cannot find any documentation either on this and ask me to take a picture of the back of the computer to email to him! How stupid.
3. TV SVideo out is not working. I connected it to my TV and cannot see anything. It is not detecfted by the system.
4. TV tuner - tuned channels are not sharp/clear. Only when using AV In port do I get a clear image.
Now I just need to find out how the FM receiver works as I cannot find any app (or Vista Media Center setup/screen) that deals with listening to FM radio. Does anyone know how to setup Vista Media Centre to receive and playback FM signal? I don't see anything about Radio setup in the setup screen. The FM/TV tuner in the Acer is a Yuan MPC788.
I have reported the problem to Acer Technical Support. The guy that came out to check on the system seemed like he never saw a unit with the TV tuner card before. I had to show him the functions and what was not working. He took the unit back to Acer for diagnostic.
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