DEAD - USB TV Tuner - $14.99 shipped @ the egg !

[SimMike2]

For the price, this thing works amazingly well. Pulled in as many OTA channels as MyHD PCI card, even with the little radio antenna. For a real test, I'm going to try in my slightly underpowered notebook computer.

 

[Jetster]

damn, mine is not working, installed driver and software no problem, but not a single channel is detected with my own antenna, while it gave my pci hd tuner card 7 local hd channels

 

[szechuanpork]

Originally posted by: SimMike2
For the price, this thing works amazingly well. Pulled in as many OTA channels as MyHD PCI card, even with the little radio antenna. For a real test, I'm going to try in my slightly underpowered notebook computer.

how far are you from the signal? also how much does this tax your cpu?

shake and bake

 

[Navid]

Downloaded the driver from the manufacturer web site.
Connected the tuner to the PC (Vista Business 64) and installed the downloaded driver.
Installed the TotalMedia 3 from the CD.

It gets all the channels I could get with my ATI HDTV.

The tuner gets really warm when connected to the PC.

 

[foolish501]

Originally posted by: Navid
The tuner gets really warm when connected to the PC.

i agree, no ventilation for the thing.

 

[GeezerMan]

Works fine for me on Windows XP using the cd drivers. The media center software
is better than I expected. Great deal. It does get warm. Wonder how long it will last....

Here is a possible reason they had it on sale. The box says , " Enjoy and record your favorite digital TV programs on our computer"

Who wants to watch TV on someone elses PC?....😀

 

[satoshen]

Worked fine for me on my XP pro laptop using the CD drivers. Pulled in more channels (19) than my old-school SIR-T151/silver sensor combo that I used last time I was experimenting with OTA. For $15 this works great and will be in the laptop bag for when I need tv in a pinch.

 

[uhohs]

running nicely so far, but man, this thing gets hot fast. lol. anyone else think we need to mod it with a heatsink or something? haha

 

[Ayrahvon]

Just got mine, works great picks up all the channels I expected it to. My only problem so far is getting the record function to work with the software, it only records audio right now it seems, anyone else having this trouble?

 

[ibex333]

I know this probably doesnt belong here, but what channels do you guys get with this thing? Are they regular ones like CW, FOX, NBC?? Are they all in HD?

Any channels like Discovery or History?

 

[unclebabar]

For $15 this was a no-brainer. Works great under Windows 2000 (Athlon x2 4600+, 2 GB DDR2, 512MB 7300GT card, Soyo 24" LCD). Around 30% (range 25-35%) cpu util. watching PBS-HD, between 15-30% for std def. Install program had problems but got the new driver from website, it's fine. obviously you can't get analog cable signals with it as it is a DIGITAL tuner (ATSC). hooked up with supplied antenna (but without it extended, didn't know until whoever mentioned it), video had little blips, but with roof top antenna works absolutely great. use the supplied adapter to hook up the rca connect to a 75 ohm coax. received PBS-Digital, and PBS-High Def, PBS-Kids, probably all local channels (ABC, CBS, NBC, UPN or CW whatever it is now, FOX), a bunch religious channels and one that has Babar showings at 10 and 4 woohoo. also got one scrambled (or locked) channel not sure what that was since it was locked and couldn't see it. manual record worked fine for me (press the record button makes an mpg) haven't tried the pvr function yet. Mine is not too hot after 30 minutes.

The only thing I wonder about is how to get the remote to work. computer doesn't have an ir receiver unless there's one on the tuner which is plugged into the back of the computer, not a great location. I did remove the plastic from the battery so that's not it.

 

[foolish501]

Originally posted by: unclebabar
For $15 this was a no-brainer. Works great under Windows 2000 (Athlon x2 4600+, 2 GB DDR2, 512MB 7300GT card, Soyo 24" LCD). Around 30% (range 25-35%) cpu util. watching PBS-HD, between 15-30% for std def. Install program had problems but got the new driver from website, it's fine. obviously you can't get analog cable signals with it as it is a DIGITAL tuner (ATSC). hooked up with supplied antenna (but without it extended, didn't know until whoever mentioned it), video had little blips, but with roof top antenna works absolutely great. use the supplied adapter to hook up the rca connect to a 75 ohm coax. received PBS-Digital, and PBS-High Def, PBS-Kids, probably all local channels (ABC, CBS, NBC, UPN or CW whatever it is now, FOX), a bunch religious channels and one that has Babar showings at 10 and 4 woohoo. also got one scrambled (or locked) channel not sure what that was since it was locked and couldn't see it. manual record worked fine for me (press the record button makes an mpg) haven't tried the pvr function yet. Mine is not too hot after 30 minutes.

The only thing I wonder about is how to get the remote to work. computer doesn't have an ir receiver unless there's one on the tuner which is plugged into the back of the computer, not a great location. I did remove the plastic from the battery so that's not it.

there is a small window on the side of the tuner that has receiver for remote, but has to be in line of sight to work