hot or not: tv -> usb2 at 27$ with remote

[nivw]

question is how good is the quality?
Can it do linux?
ripped from techbargains
Shipping: $4.95 - SKU: TV USB20
$3 Coupon Code: techbargains259
TV Tuner/Video Capture Box with Remote Control USB2.0 Retail

Specifications:
TV Tuner: Yes
FM Tuner: No
Remote Control: Yes
Interface: USB 2.0
Video Display: NTSC 30fps 720 x 480, PAL 25fps 720 x 576
Video Format: Mpeg4/2/1
Ports In:
Audio Input
Coaxial TV Antenna or Cable Input
S-VHS Input
Composite Input
Operating Systems Supported: Windows 2000/XP
System Requirements CPU: Pentium III 800 MHz or above
Memory: 64 MB or above
VGA Card with at least 8MB memory
An USB 2.0 Port
CD-ROM drive
Features:
New and high performance USB2.0 IC, no external power required
Support NS-High Speed, data transfer rate reached 480M bps
TV Record at resolution NTSC 704x480
S-VHS and Composite input. For high resolution Video Capture. NTSC 704x480
Video Adjustable Saturation/Contrast/Hue/Brightness.
Capture and Record as Standard Format (ex. AVI, MPEG1, MPEG4 etc.)
Bandwidth Adaptive Automatically Control.
Audio Capture & A/V Sync. Function.
Full channel (supplementary channel contained) scanning, up to 125 TV channels receivable
Support TV, Video, DVD/VCD displaying and watching, music listening, picture browsing
Support multi-national languages
Support audio/video USB mongline transfer
Time-shifting
Scheduled recording
Remote control
Package Contents:
USB 2.0 TV Tuner / Video Capture
Remote control
Software CD
Batteries

 

[gcy]

Link?

 

[promposive]

Link

Price requires $3 coupon code + 5$ shipping

 

[munchydoan]

Well I'm about to find out.
I'll let you guys know about the quality after it arrives.

 

[munchydoan]

I just got mine and played with it over the weekend.
The quality is precent darn decent. I plugged my antenna in and the reception was as good as with my other TVs in the house.
Recording quality at the highest setting was impressive. I "taped" the FOX sunday night shows and then played them back later on my laptop using Windows Media Player and I gotta say that it looked better through that than through the WinDVR software it comes with.
For $31 total, it was a steal.

 

[Flatbroke]

Found it here, no coupon or "fright" with standard shipping.

Resellerratings looks good.

 

[weepul]

would you know if the device is mono or stereo audio. most usb tuners i've seen are mono audio only.

//krunk (^_^x)

 

[munchydoan]

Stereo

 

[KenSr]

I am thinking about getting this.

I sure wish there was more input about it.

 

[probzy]

What's the quality?

 

[Bassist695]

I'm sorry, I'm not buying from any site that spells freight like this:

Fright:

$4.95

 

[Jassi]

Stupid question but software or hardware encoding?

 

[isayx3]

Will this work with Windows Media Edition? I want to get an HD Tuner but from what i read you need an analog tuner in your system first. I'm thinking this would be a cheap option.

 

[tubs]

does this work with orb?

 

[Baldy18]

Originally posted by: Bassist695
I'm sorry, I'm not buying from any site that spells freight like this:

Fright:

$4.95

You could order from the other site and get one that is "USB 12.0 and USB 1.1 compliant".

 

[isuckatdeals]

it's available at newegg for $30 plus $6 shipping

 

[ECartman]

any outputs? It doesnt look like it. Can someone confirm?

I'm looking for something to play movies from my laptop DVD drive onto a television.

 

[Slickone]

Would this be a good choice for converting VHS tapes to DVD? I want to keep the best quality I can obviously.

 

[BigEdMuustaffa]

Originally posted by: Slickone
Would this be a good choice for converting VHS tapes to DVD? I want to keep the best quality I can obviously.

'


I've done extensive research on converting VHS tapes to DVD and the best solution I came up with is an S-VHS player connected to my digital camcorder via S-video and audio cables, passed thru to my pc, via firewire and audio cables.

 

[mikeford]

For quality on a VHS transfer Big is right, item one is a high quality S-Vhs player, then many good choices for converting the resulting video.

RE the HD OTA, do some more research as its a moving target, but last I checked many like the Fusion cards, USB seems to have some issues.

BTW this card isn't HD is it, just old style SD video.

 

[mikeford]

Also it doesn't appear to do any encoding in hardware, just tunes, converts, and passes the raw data to the PC and uses the cpu to encode.