Customer Reviews

Sabrent TV-PCIRC TV Tuner PCI Card with Remote Control

5 star:		(5)
4 star:		(6)
3 star:		(4)
2 star:		(6)
1 star:		(16)

 

 

only a few channels worked and were fuzzy,
sound never worked,
remote worked once then never again

cheap product dont buy it

The principal benefit of this product is in the valuable lesson it teaches not to buy the lowest price item without first taking a good look at the product reviews. I was never able to get the card to do anything. I tried removing and reinstalling the drivers. I tried getting assistance through the web site. I tried contacting the manufacturer and they never returned my phone call. I've decided to cut my losses and buy a different card.

It's cheap, but I couldn't get it to work. It seems to be a problem with the drivers. I wrote to the company for help multiple times but couldn't pin them down on any clear instructions (e.g., they'd tell me to download the drivers from the internet, but when I responded that I allready did so and it still didn't work they wouldn't tell me where to go from there they stopped responding to my e-mails). I'm pretty computer savvy so if I was unable to get the thing working after several hours I don't think anyone else will be able to either.

I purchased this item and was very excited about getting it... I had a previous version of WinTv and I liked it but wanted something new... as I read the specs for this program and card it looked as if I had found what I was looking for. When I installed the card and program nothing happened, I re-installed and the card began to work but the picture was terrible none of the channels matched if something was on 21 it would show 22.... half of the channels wouldn't even come on... I had to do a system restore 3 times to get rid of the program but now there is a warning that comes on when I boot my computer about missing .dll files.... Buyer beware, this is a worthless item... I have tried to get in touch with the seller and I have recieved no reply...BUYER BEWARE !!!!

I received and installed this card yesterday. It was not recognized by Windows 2000. Neither was the driver included on the CD. Sabrent's site didn't have any driver for the card, either, but did have a wonderful FAQ link about it... Well, I'm assuming that it was wonderful, since the URL was broke. I'm giving them a chance to respond before I send it back.

To start, this card is very difficult to get working right, tried several drivers only to find that one wrong setting can lead to system recovery. Recording with it was very nice for the first week, after that every time I recorded something the sound had a loud machine noise to it.
Recently I've looked up the actual model and found that in fact the model I paid for I never recieved, I got this one instead. I went for the 35$ card because of the port structures on audio were not metel, also that it is built better. I hope I can get the right model I paid for.

The audio in on the card works but you will need to put the audio out from your device to your computers line in. Not on tuner card in, It worked fine for my purpose which was to record a vhs tape from vcr to computer.

I agree with the other review that this is underappreciated.

I did not get the remote to work and FM didn't work on mine either, but the video works well. The built-in software works, but doesn't work for digital TV (Over-the-air TV in the US). I connect my digital converter box to the RCA jack (yellow) and the picture is quite good.

The included drivers worked fine.

Install dscaler as well, as that software gives better control of the card's features.

I have dealt with many tv tuners that may be quality hardware bundled with crappy software, which is an easy fix. This product matches such crappy software with even worse hardware. Do not buy, this is junk. I have tried several different tuner software packages to no avail. I repeat do not buy!

Well, is very cheap... But, and its a big but..

First of all, I am and experience user and it took me a lot of work and research to make it work on Ubuntu (9.10 karmic). But i finally made it =).

If you are a Windows user: The drivers may work, if the dont, just get to the "Windows Update" and you'll find the driver.

The software that should handle the Video Card, the config, channels, etc, doesnt work on Windows 7. And I havent found another software to use it on Win 7...

Sooo, from 1 to 10, my score is: ..... 3