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- First reviewAugust 7, 2010
- Last reviewJuly 10, 2011
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Tune in to live television broadcasts on your PC with this PCTV USB 2.0 stick and watch and record your favorite TV shows with ease.
Posted by: bws1
from Ohio
I don't use the bundled software that came with it, so I've had, for the most part, an acceptable experience with it. Interms of tuning, it works great with the analog system I'm currently hooked into. The software I use with it, recognizes it flawlessly and makes use of all of the devices features. However, like a lot of other customers, I've had nothing but problems with the remote.
If I had to do it all over again, I would have opted for the PCI card, instead of the USB device, simply because the card is so much faster (have 3 of those in another machine), and the remote is more like a conventional remote control.
In my opinion, this is a great little toy to get your feet wet in, but if you're going to get serious about designing and building your own pvr/dvr, use a more robust product.
What's great about it: easy install very compact, portable
What's not so great: the remote
I would recommend this to a friend!
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Equip your desktop with 1GB of DDR2 memory for enhanced graphics performance using this graphics card that features a 550MHz core clock, 1400MHz shader clock and a 128-bit memory with 700MHz effective memory speed for impressive visuals.
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Decent value for the price
on August 7, 2010
Posted by: bws1
from Ohio
Build or modify your own PC:Yes
Level of Expertise:Expert
Primary reason for building/modifying PC:Hobbiest
I was lucky! My best buy had it for $59.00, so I figured what the heck. I popped it into a system that had a Windows 7 performance score of 3.1 (older quad core PC, 64 bit version of Win7 and only 4 GB RAM). Popped the card in and attempted to install the drivers. The driver installation process failed, so I had to dig down into the file folders and run the setup for the drivers and directx stuff manually. Once everything installed, I went to the Nvidia site and downloaded the latest and greatest drivers (the drivers on the disk are substantially out of date) and my overall system performance score jumped up to 5.3. And for what I do, that’s more than adequate.
So, for what I’m doing, I think it’s a pretty decent buy. If another one shows up at the same price, I just might pick one up.
What's great about it: value
What's not so great: driver installation seemed a little unstable
I would recommend this to a friend!
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