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Hauppauge WinTV-NOVA-T USB Stick - DVB-T Digital freeview TV tuner stick | 
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| Brand: Hauppauge
Category: CE
Buy New: £16.00
New (17) Used (3) from £15.00
Rating:  27 reviews
Sales Rank: 675
Platform: Windows Xp
Media: Electronics
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.6
Dimensions (in): 8.2 x 5.4 x 3.3
Legal Disclaimer: IFILE
MPN: 294
Model: 294
UPC: 785428002941
EAN: 0785428002941
ASIN: B000F8RPQE
Release Date: March 31, 2006
Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| • | WINTV NOVA-TSTICK | | • | HIGH SENSITIVITY DIGITALTV TUNER UK |
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Product Description
WinTV-NOVA-T-Stick is a Plug Play USB device which brings digital terrestrial broadcasts (TV and radio) to your PC. Digital reception provides sharper TV pictures and near CD quality audio. And Free-to-View digital TV ds not require a PayTV subscription!Main Features:Wintv NOVA-T Stick Digital TV on your PC or LaptopDigital radio on your PCRecord digital TV and radio to your PC's hard diskSchedule your recordings whilst you are away from the PCRecords in MPEG2 DVD like qualityEasy to install USB 2.0 device...
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| Customer Reviews: Read 22 more reviews...
 Buyer Beware July 24, 2008
Talula Hawaii
Seemed like a good idea at the time but basically it doesn't work very well if at all. It seems to depend not only on where you live but also whether you can/want to plug your existing TV aerial into it. While this is understandable there is not enough of a warning on the box or in the accompanying "spin". Does explain why it's being sold off so cheaply though! Buyer Beware
Useless March 12, 2008
P. A. Ford (Colchester, UK)
26 out of 29 found this review helpful
I bought this because i wanted to digitise TV programs to watch on my iphone. It's currently sitting on my shelf, unused and useless.
1/ I have a webserver installed on my laptop. Amazingly, the software for this device wiped my webserver, and installed its own over it. This is inept, lazy, careless programming and has caused me a lot of problems. Sofware should NEVER do something like this without explicitly warning the user, but there was no warning whatsoever. I was just left wondering where my webserver went!
2/ The software that comes with the prodict, which supposedly should allow me to schedule recordings is unusable on my Dell Latitude D820 because for some unknown reason, the 2 buttons that kick the process off are cropped off in their window, meaning it's impossible for me to press them! More lazy, un-tested software!
3/ Finally, since I couldn't schedule a programme, I tried to record a programme live. Ths was a complete failure. Only a few minutes were recorded. It was a very strange experience, and I'm guessing that if I left the software running for a few hours after the programme had finished then it might have succeeded, but this would have been way too much hassle.
 Great little Gadget March 2, 2008
Mr. Gary Meddick (UK)
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
I purchased this as i wanted to record freeview programs, as my PC is relativly new I did not want to break the warrenty seals to install an onboard card.
I have to admit that I have this linked to a full size antenna situated within my loft space. I decided to use WMC to control the device so have not installed the win TV softwear so far it has provided prfect picture and sound quality and along with the WMC tv softwear and EPG fullfils all of my requierments.
Watch Out February 16, 2008
S. Ereira (UK)
5 out of 7 found this review helpful
Make sure you are in a freeview area or it does not wotk, very important
Appauling February 6, 2008
J. Hall (Aberdeen, Scotland)
23 out of 25 found this review helpful
The software is easy enough to install, however, it won't pick up more than 10-15 channels (and thats with a good ariel!).
But, that isn't the worst of the problems. Once it makes it past the "scanning" it crashes frequently, especially when changing channels and enabling "full screen mode". Sometimes it is so bad that it freezes up the entire computer, thus having to do a force restart. When trying to watch a film (or anything for that matter) it is insanely annoying having to restart the whole application every 5 minutes.
The third major problem was the screen size. For the first few days it worked at full screen size then after a praticularly bad freeze up when changing channels, it decided to resort to only one fourth of its normal screen size - a tiny, tiny picture! And no matter what I tried (uninstalling, reinstalling, etc, etc) it would not resort back to its original normal screen size.
This then brings me to the fourth problem which is the recording facility. To get past the tiny screen, I had to have it on record whenever I wanted to watch the TV. For some wierd reason this was the only thing which would allow it to resort to the normal size. However, if you wanted to watch what you recorded - think again! When I played my recordings back, I got a frozen picture with normal sound, utterly useless.
So all in all, I wasted 30+ on this piece of junk, not to mention an all the time I spent trying to get it working - and failing!
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