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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: £21.40
New (20) from £21.40
Rating:  28 reviews
Platform: Windows Xp
Media: Electronics
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.6
Dimensions (in): 8.2 x 5.4 x 3.3
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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| • | Win Tv Nova-T Stick Usb2 Digital Tv Tuner - HAUPPAUGE - 00294 |
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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:
 Good buy but beware..... July 14, 2006
Big J (UK)
118 out of 122 found this review helpful
The truth is that if your buying a digital TV card (freeveiw), that the cards themselves have little influence on the overall quality of the TV you will watch. All the cards can pick up the same stations (E4, BBC news 24, Kerrang etc... whether its your 70 terratec all singing all dancing ,or your cheap little USB Hauppauge stick. The thing which will influence the sigmal is your aerial. So my advice for those of you buying for the sole puurpose of veiwing digital TV on your comp at home and maybe recording the odd show is to buy a cheap USB stick and spend the bulk of your money on a reasonable indoor aerial and purchase a signal booster with it (20 ), and foreget using a PCI board with dual tuner blah blah... because its little advantage for the extra money.
The funny thing about digital is that unlike analogue you ither have signal or you don't, no fuzy picture, either crystal clear or blank screen so reception is very important.
The reason for 4 star rather than 5 is that the software included (Win TV) sucks soooooo much and theres not many other softwares availible (most are beta editions.)
To conclude; this stick will serve the purpose of recieving digital TV through a good aerial (supplied aerial is v.weak and only usefull in strong signal area or outdoors.)
 Great little gizmo-if you read instructions properly August 11, 2006
two (Durham-UK)
81 out of 88 found this review helpful
I noticed M.Barratt wrote that he got a much better choice of stations when he disconnected supplied arial and used his home main one--well the instructions clearly tell you to do that. I instaled it easily and at first attempt picked up 64 stations and I live in a not so good signal area.I suspect most failures are due to not reading instructions properly, this is extremely important.If,for example you just blaze through and shut down after the first driver is installed---as many have done--- you will never get it to work as you have to wait for the wizard to appear a few times to install all drivers and .dll files.Its superb value for money and is much better than the expensive, 85.00, my daughter bought.Its a little flimsy when sticking out of usb port for my liking,so care will have to be taken,but when you have just paid 400 and more for a laptop you will be careful--won`t you? I am not a computer wizz by a long shot and was reluctant to begin the set-up but instructions were precise and clear and Windows performed exactly as instructions said they would--but please read carefully and WAIT for wizard to separately install about 8/9 drivers etc. then it will give you no problems at all.
 Appauling February 6, 2008
J. Hall (Aberdeen, Scotland)
27 out of 29 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!
Useless March 12, 2008
P. A. Ford (Colchester, UK)
27 out of 30 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.
Cobbled together July 20, 2006
Helpdesk Guru (Wales)
24 out of 28 found this review helpful
The hardware wizard runs separately for several features of the stick - why couldn't it run once for the whole thing? It doesn't like rooftop aerials that point at more than one transmitter - gets confused and finds nothing because, according to Support, it doesn't go off signal strength. So you have to know the channel numbers and put them in manually - like you could do that for any hotel room you happen to find yourself in. It doesn't like going through an aerial booster because the voltage may confuse it - so it has to be the only device connected to the roof aerial - and that's unusably daft. The supplied aerial works in a 12 mile radius only and it doesn't say that on the box. Downloaded the latest software - why couldn't the supplied one work? The support technician I spoke to was diffident - e.g. my request for explanation was met with "all I want you to do is type in these numbers and click Tune" (Just do as you're told, I don't respect your need to understand this product you own). Tried another USB port - still nothing. No feedback from the product - what channel it's scanning, whether it has found anything or nothing at all. In other words, I spent so much time and effort trying to accomodate its quirks that I could see only a future of further frustration. When I told the technician that, he just said "OK". Whole thing had a 'cobbled together' feel. And the support technician was as uncommunicative as the product. I think I'll try the Freecom.
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