Sabrent TV-USBHD Dual ATSC & Digital HDTV and Analog TV Tuner / Video Capture USB 2.0 Pendrive with Remote Control and Antenna Vista Ready

by Sabrent

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 7.6 x 4.8 x 1.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S.
• ASIN: B000VKU33S
• Item model number: TV-USBHD
• Average Customer Review: 2.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (75 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #5,025 in Electronics (See Top 100 in Electronics)
  • #44 in Electronics > Outlet
• Date first available at Amazon.com: April 2, 2004

Product Description

This Mini Digital USB HDTV TV TUNER allows you to use your computer as a TV and digital multimedia center. This Mini and compact design makes it easy and portable to take along with you wherever you go. Enjoy free air HDTV / Analogue TV (cable or air) entertainment whenever you like and wherever you go. Watch and record free-to-air HDTV on PC Mini TV Stick for ATSC and NTSC Full function remote control Time-shifting while watching live TV Schedule recording TV on PC Enjoy Digital Terrestrial TV anywhere! No matter where you are, this PC TV Pendrive TV-USBHD lets you enjoy high quality digital entertainment on your notebook or desktop PC! Features include instant recording for recording digitally, TV with time shifting and much more! More than a receiver, this PC TV Pendrive TV-USBHD can record your Analog and HDTV favorite programs into your PC and never miss a moment! Get the ultimate mobile digital TV solution! Receives both, Digital and Analog signal. Specifications : Compact design Advanced TV Application Watch free to air ATSC HDTV / World Wilde Analogue TV on PC Rewind and fast forward live TV shows with Always Time-shifting recording Support HDTV receiving Automatic station searching Create favorite stations for convenient listening Digital Personal Video Recording Schedule TV recording and save directly to your PC’s hard drive Support US TV signals NTSC, ATSC Time-shifting Digital Teletext EPG TV program Subtitle supported Requirements : Microsoft Windows XP/VISTA P3 600MHz CPU or above for analogue TV / P4 1.70GHz CPU or above for HDTV 128M RAM or above for analogue TV / 256M RAM or above for HDTV Sound Card or On Board Sound Chip One available USB Port Microsoft Direct X 9.0 or above / Microsoft Media Player 9.0 or above Retail Package Content : PC TV Pendrive ATSC/Analog TV USB Adapter Antenna Installation CD Remote control

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46 of 48 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Works good, good value, April 24, 2009

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obscurant - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Sabrent TV-USBHD Dual ATSC & Digital HDTV and Analog TV Tuner / Video Capture USB 2.0 Pendrive with Remote Control and Antenna Vista Ready (Personal Computers)

This worked for me quite well, and I'm glad I chose this tuner. The picture and sound, especially with HD, are perfect. You have to have good reception though. I hooked mine up to an old, outdoor analogue antenna and got fairly good results. Better reception than on my analogue TV with converter box. I then tried the included antenna outside, stuck to the side of my house. I get all 14 of my local channels and the reception on digital channels is great. Of course, analogue will be useless in a few months. I strongly recommend a good, outdoor digital antenna with this. Without good reception, you'll have a host of problems, including video and audio getting out of sync (which can be corrected by reloading the channel) and poor picture/sound quality, etc.. It's fairly resource intensive on HD channels, and multitasking can sometimes be a problem, albeit very little. This is the cheapest, and I think, the best way to get HDTV, though, because of the DVR functions and the convenience of it.

The included software (Blaze HDTV Player 3.5) is adequate, and has some nice features, but is rather buggy and leaves a lot to be desired. There are other software solutions, like the great freeware The KMPlayer and Cyberlink Powercinema (not worth your trouble). VLC also supports ATSC in a new, beta version. None of which, of course, will work with the remote. After trying about four other programs, I'm back to Blaze though. It's actually pretty good, comparatively. Its included Electronic Program Guide is a bit of a joke, and necessary to schedule recordings, but there's a good, online guide at[...]. And, so far, I haven't been able to get Blaze to work on multiple monitors.

To summarize, I highly recommend it *if* you can get good reception. I recommend "Antennas Direct DB2 Multi Directional HDTV Antenna," if the included antenna doesn't work for you. Digital reception should get better in June though, when stations make the full conversion to DTV.

[update] My Sierra 881 aircard causes this tuner to not work. I can go from having all channels, to only a few, when the aircard is inserted in the expresscard slot, suggesting that the wireless signal interferes with the TV signal.

26 of 26 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Fair product for the price, May 30, 2008

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Ultra (Florida) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Sabrent TV-USBHD Dual ATSC & Digital HDTV and Analog TV Tuner / Video Capture USB 2.0 Pendrive with Remote Control and Antenna Vista Ready (Personal Computers)

1- What I don't like:
I basically buy it because of the price and because it came with the little antenna and the remote control, but both are useless, with the remote you have to be so close to the laptop that at the end is easier with the keyboard to change the channels or turn on the volume and the antenna does not help at all to get air channels, as a workaround you can try one of those rabbit ears antenna.
2-The good part:
The device itself works fine with cable and it is easy to install, the software is nice too and easy to record and set it up to record a program while you're gone.

A good option for traveling or record something that you don't want to miss

17 of 18 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Good choice to watch TV/HDTV while you travel, April 14, 2008

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Carlos Feria Tapia - See all my reviews
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The TV-USBHD tuner is very easy to install; in order to tune Analog or HDTV channels you might have to do several attempts (by try and error) to select Analog or HDTV source, but when you figure out that you are done (Right click over display area...). The scanning of the channels could take a lot of time, just make sure your antena is placed well and you don't live in a basement he he, otherwise good.