Product Description

Interface : USB TV tuner type: DVB-T Support DVB-T Radio functions

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #694 in Consumer Electronics
• Brand: Hauppauge
• Model: 294
• Released on: 2006-03-31
• Platform: Windows XP
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: 2.20 pounds

Manufacturer's Description
WinTV-NOVA-T stick uses the latest high sensitivity digital DVB-T TV tuner, offering the best possible DVB-T digital reception. With this product you will be able to Watch, pause and record DVB-T digital TV in a window or full screen using high quality MPEG-2. Use the WinTV Scheduler to record you favourite digital TV shows. Play your TV recordings back to your screen any time. The WinTV-NOVA-T stick is easy to install. Just plug it into your notebook or PC's USB 2.0 port and connect to a digital TV antenna, Load the software from our installation CD and you're ready to start watching digital TV on your PC or laptop screen. This product also includes a portable digital DVB-T antenna, so you can receive digital TV while you travel!

The NOVA-T stick uses the COFDM demodulator which utilizes the state of the art Signal Processing to provide high performance portable and fixed reception of DVB-T signal, TV to USB bridge which encapsulates MPEG2-TS packets (Digital TV reception) over USB. This product also benefits from Hauppauge's standard 2 year warrenty and they offer UK technical support.

Hauppauge has been a worldwide leading developer and manufacturer of analogue/digital video, TV and Data broadcast receiver products for the PC since 1982, with an estimated worldwide installed base of over 5 million.There flagship product the WinTV is the leading branded TV card in the retail market place and now they have come to market with this excellent compact lightweight USB device.

This new USB DVB-T device has the Latest COFDM demodulator which utilizes the state of the art Signal Processing to provide high performance portable and fixed reception of DVB-T signal, Therefore ensuring that you always get the best possible digital reception allowing you to watch, Pause and record Digital TV almost everywhere.

Box Contents

• WinTV-NOVA-T Stick with DVB-T Reception
• USB Extension Cable
• Portable DVB-T Antenna
• Software on CD-ROM (incl. manual)
• Quick Installation Guide

Customer Reviews

Very good...
I am shocked this has received so many negative reviews. I have had it for a couple years now and I think it is very good. Paid £25 for it at PC World. True, the software is a little fiddly but once installed it works very well. As another reviewer commented - it doesn't matter how much you spend on the TV tuner if your ariel/reception is no good. It also works with the Vista Media Centre and in Linux. A bargain for £18 delivered!

Buyer Beware
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
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.