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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.
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4
Excellent alternative to an expensive DVR or TiVo
on January 25, 2013
Posted by: Nick4321
from Indiana
My DVD-RAM recorder was showing its age and I wanted an alternative to record TV shows off open (no decoder box) cable onto a digital medium (I.e. a computer hard drive). I didn't want to be locked into a TiVo subscription and I don't have a cable or satellite TV subscription with a bundled DVR. This fit the bill perfectly. It tunes in the analog cable channels I receive plus the local TV stations that come over cable for free in HD, plus a few other free HD channels I receive. The key is that I am not passing the cable signal through a decoder box. It only works for analog and "in the clear" (QAM) digital.
The tuner comes bundled with software to allow recording of shows. It works very well for scheduled recordings, including repeat schedules (e.g. Every Sunday nite, 9:00-10:00pm). The programs are recorded in .ts file format, which requires just under 4GB (analog) or 5GB (digital HD) for one hour of recording, large compared to other video file formats like .mp4. Still, it's relatively cheap to buy a 1 TB hard drive these days, so that's not a huge disadvantage, just something to be aware of. I have it plugged into the USB port on a laptop, with The recordings going to an external USB 2.0 1TB hard drive, both of which I had already for my iTunes music library.
The only other minor gripe is that while it's easy to start "instant" recording, I haven't figured out how to have it automatically stop recording 60 or 90 (or whatever) minutes later, which means you have to manually stop an instant recording.
All in all, though, I'm very pleased with this purchase, and more importantly, so are my wife and 10 year old son.
What's great about it: The bundled recording software
What's not so great: The recorded video files are quite large
I would recommend this to a friend!
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Good, Mindless Entertainment
on January 25, 2013
Posted by: Nick4321
from Indiana
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Hey, it's a Roger Moore Bond flick, not Dr. Zhivago. Good, mindless entertainment. If you're buying the DVD, chances are you've already seen the movie since its from the 80s. Funny thing is, now that Skyfall is out of the cinemas it's almost impossible to find any James Bond DVDs or Blu-Ray in the mainstream retail outlets.
I would recommend this to a friend!
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