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LUPO DIGITAL TV DVB-T USB ADAPTER/DONGLE/STICK FREEVIEW RECEIVER & AERIAL FOR PC AND LAPTOP | 
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| Brand: Gizmo Deals
Category: CE
Buy New: £13.99
New (1) Used (1) from £10.99
Rating:  113 reviews
Color: Silver
Media: Electronics
Batteries Included: Yes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 2.8 x 0.6 x 0.4
Warranty: No manufacturers warranty
MPN: LUPO S-TT-0010
Model: LUPO S-TT-0010
EAN: 5060151750006
ASIN: B000OF1EJM
Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| • | Easy TV DVB-T stick and record digital terrestrial TV by simply plugging it into a USB 2.0 port. Digital TV offers a viewing experience superior to conventional analog TV by providing a static free, razor sharp picture with increased resolution | | • | Watch your favorite programs with crystal clear stereo sound, supporting multi-language broadcasts | | • | Record digital TV perfectly to MPEG-2 or taking a still image snapshot and saving it to your hard drive | | • | Pause, rewind and fast forward live TV, schedule recordings, auto-scan for channels and customize channel lists. Vista users will need to contact me so I can email details for the Vista software upgrade patch. Check www_ukfree_tv for coverage in your area prior to purchasing | | • | System Requirements: CPU: Pentium 4 or AMD Athlon 2GHz or higher; Centrino 1.3GHz or higher, System RAM: 256MB or higher, 512MB recommended. Microsoft Windows 2000 (SP4)/XP (SP2). 100MB free HD space. VGA card/chipset with DirectX 8.1 support. DirectX 9.0c installed. Sound card/ chipset for audio playback. Available USB port |
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Product Description
Experience high quality Digital TV and radio on your PC with the LUPO tm Digital DVB-T USB Dongle. With the HDTV player you can record your favourite TV programs, take high quality pictures and store them all onto your hard disk. By using the time shifting feature you can also control live TV, fast forward past commercials, pause the program or instantly replay a scene.
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| Customer Reviews:
 Well pleased September 9, 2007
DG (Scotland)
29 out of 29 found this review helpful
Having researched similar products and their reviews, more expensive options didn't come out any better, particularly for aerial performance and customer satisfaction - I didn't have high expectations having had a poor result with a satellite TV/PC product. I'm delighted with the results - I use the house aerial though the supplied one gives an excellent picture but a bit of wobble (dependent on placing - didn't persevere). The dongle does get hot (life expectancy?) so I've put a cable between it and the laptop. No problems with the software or remote. I've got 60 channels with UK scan, haven't yet tried Universal scan or all the recording features. Makes a mockery of TV sets, associated culture and pricing - Excellent. This one is for my student daughter, I'll be getting another.
Love it September 7, 2007
L. Hewett
20 out of 21 found this review helpful
Well, I have to say first of all that in a good signal area, or with a good aerial, it works brilliantly. I tried the aerial supplied, and got nothing, but using our outdoor aerial with a booster, I recieved 91 channels, all perfect. I actually bought this to use at uni, because my room is so small I can't fit a TV in too, so I'm hoping the signal is better in a city than in the country (where I live). I also bought a better aerial, and I'm fairly confident I'll pick up enough channels with that to keep me entertained.
I also got the message about "this may corrupt your computer if you continue installation" when installing the driver, but emailed the company right away, and they assured me nothing bad would come of it.
Extreme value for money September 18, 2007
Mr. P. J. Barden (UK)
20 out of 20 found this review helpful
I received this very promptly today and have to say I am astounded at the quality of the product. It takes very little time to set up, tunes to more channels than my big set top box, best non-HD pic quality I have ever seen, comes with a remote control that actually works (and if you know how can be set up to control other media programs installed), and best of all - costs under a tenner! I really cannot fault this except by pointing out that the actual USB connection looks slightly flimsy and prone to bending, but that's being pedantic for the sake of it. Overall worth 5 stars, and this comes from a critical eye.
Buy this with confidence!
Godd value for money August 30, 2007
Mr. C. Wyatt
11 out of 13 found this review helpful
The item arrived in this morning's post. I had previously downloaded the latest version of BlazeVideo HDTV Player 2.5 and finally after a bit of a struggle realised that I had to set this up via the "Folders" icon to set the HDTV to open by default on the AF9005 tuner/filter.Having done that the software automatically opens up the DVB-TV dongle and the blue LED comes on.The drivers I had downloaded & installed from the mini-CD.
Only problem is that the Remote Control appears inoperative despite the battery being good and the software option for a remote control on the BlazeVideo software is greyed out.
How does one get the remote control to operate?
BTW - the small antenna does not work in my location but on the main aerial all DTT (TV & Radio) channels were downloaded from Winter Hill TX but the dongle does not support MHEG 5 for digital text.Nor does it allow analogue TV and teletext to be received as far as I can ascertain.
However the BlazeVideo software allows you to operate the dongle very well - you can form a "favourites" list of channels.But the channel scan does not give you the LCNs you would see on a Freeview box - the numbering is as the channels are downloaded.
Also the dongle runs very hot and I used a male to female USB adapter cable to connect it to my laptop....better than directly plugging in with quite some heat transfer a possibility and less strain on a laptop USB port when a heavy TV coax cable is attached to the dongle.
However, all in all, a good value especially for a sales rep staying in hotels with TV distribution but room TVs that are analogue only & not DTT.Freeview for TV and Radio on your laptop is a good ruse.
Forget the antenna - and the unit needs a male/female USB adapter cable to safeguard your laptop/PC from the heat generated by the dongle.
I was not disappointed for the money paid.
Digital TV DVB-T USB Adapter/Dongle/Stick Freeview receiver November 5, 2007
Mr. Anthony R. Johnson (UK)
10 out of 10 found this review helpful
It's incredulous that this little USB dongle - scarcely bigger than a USB flash-drive - more than fulfils the function of a full-blown Terrestrial Freeview set-top 'digibox' decoder. And in excellent resolution too.
Firstly, unless you live next-door to a TV transmitter, you might as well ditch the tiny aerial supplied - for it's a waste of space - and connect to a 'proper' TV aerial (preferably of wide-band log-periodic design, ideally with integral RF amplifier). Then the results are stunning. In my case, used on a 1.7GHz P-Mobile (Centrino) laptop (with unusually high resolution screen) both picture and sound quality are awesome. I use high quality headphones to realise the stunning sound, as laptop speakers are never very 'Hi-Fi'. You might want to tone-down the dazzlingly bright blue activity led too, for it's a tad overpowering! I used a stationery hole-punch to cut a small disk from the fogged end of a strip of 35mm colour negatives and glued it over the led. It is now suitably muted but perfectly visible. I mount the DVB-T USB Adapter on the top edge of the laptop lid (just above the screen) with Velcro, so that it faces the viewer, thereby ensuring that the supplied remote-control works reliably, for its pick-up sensor now points towards the remote.
It's surprising to discover that the dongle runs quite hot - but within its design parameters, I would think; showing that its processor is working quite hard. It also works the host computer's processor fairly hard too, but everything keeps up OK. Powered from a USB port - which on a laptop would provide no more than about 2.5W of 5V power - the system copes perfectly. I would think the decoder is probably drawing close on 2.5W - enough to make it feel mighty warm to the touch. It cools very quickly on power-down though, showing that its passive cooling is dissipating the heat well. But all processors tend to run hot - hence the need for active cooling on system CPUs and GPUs.
The bundled software - Blaze DTV Ver. 2.5a - is both comprehensive and intuitive. It delivers superb picture and sound quality, interpreting 16:9 (wide-screen) versus 4:3 aspect ratios intelligently. It just gets it right every time. It also allows the computer to become a PVR (personal video recorder) complete with time-shift facility (i.e. instant pause and resumed/delayed viewing of the programme) and has an alternative interface for playing DVDs (from an existing DVD drive) together with user-controls for colour, audio EQ, screen aspect, etc. And it provides the user-interface for the VB-T USB Adapter to scan for receivable channels.
Regrettably, selected channels cannot be added to the EPG (Electronic Programme Guide) - the on-screen list of available channels - because a re-scan overwrites the channel list. However, as revealed in the User Guide - thoughtfully provided on the mini-CD in both html and pdf (i.e. Adobe Acrobat) formats - by deleting one of its system files, a re-scan can be forced. Therefore, if that system file, containing a list of channels, viewable with a text editor, is saved under an arbitrary name (e.g. the name of the target transmitter used when its scan was performed) it can be reinstated, restoring all the channels found during that particular scan.
You may be wondering why I deem all this multi-transmitter stuff significant - well, it's because I am using the system in a Motorhome, which by its very nature finds itself in various locations, with the need to scan for channels from different TV transmitters.
All in all, the laptop computer and VB-T USB Adapter together with its Blaze DTV software provide a cost-effective, high quality solution to delivering stunning TV and digital radio reception, plus DVD playback on a computer. And at Gizmo-Deals' almost giveaway price, you really can't go wrong.
I have now bought another as a spare, for if this one ever packs up (and it conceivably could, given the temperature at which it operates) I would be heartbroken.
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