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Hauppauge WinTV-NOVA-T USB Stick - DVB-T Digital freeview TV tuner stick | 
| Brand: Hauppauge
Category: CE
Buy New: £29.31
as of 18/3/2010 07:41 CDT details
New (19) Used (1) from £29.31
Rating:  reviews
Platform: Windows XP
Media: Electronics
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.7
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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| Features:
| • | Wintv NOVA-T Stick | | • | Digital TV on your PC or Laptop | | • | Digital radio on your PC | | • | Record digital TV and radio to your PC&apost;s h | | • | Schedule your recordings whilst you are away fro |
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Product Description
Hauppauge WinTV NOVA-T Stick DVB-T USB 2.0
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| Customer Reviews:
 Does what it says on the box December 19, 2007
mike32514 (United Kingdom)
25 out of 25 found this review helpful
Initially I gave this a 1 star rating, since it hung my system (XP) whenever I tried to install it. I have since discovered that the Nvidia graphics card drivers I had were causing the freeze - which also affected AVI files. I upgraded to the latest drivers from Nvidia's site and now everything works fine. It picked up all 64 channels through a shared coaxial cable and displays them without glitches. It records happily enough on a 2.4 Athlon, though it's best to keep the number of background processes running to a minimum. Playback quality is above VHS - around what you'd expect from XLP DVD (6 hrs per disk) and it uses around 2GB per hour of recording. I've put it through an HDMI socket in the TV via a DVi to HDMI converter which keeps a scart free. Overall, it's a cheap way of watching TV and if you have an old PC, buying a 200GB hard disk for £50 will give you a 100 hour digital video recorder for peanuts...
Good buy but beware..... July 14, 2006
Big J (UK)
162 out of 167 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.)
Digital T.V. on your computer December 30, 2007
Ian Jones
19 out of 19 found this review helpful
The reason I bought this was because I wanted to watch television on my computer. I was undiecided wheather to buy a new pc monitor or flat screen T.V. with integrated freeview and a PC input, but in the end opted for the 22 inch monitor with an HDMI port.
After reading a few reviews, I choose the Hauppauge WinTV-NOVA-T USB Stick. Once the package arrived I opened it and took out the instructions, (it unfolds like a map) and installed the T.V. stick and software. It took several minutes before I received a picture after rebooting it, but it soon appeared. I received 44 radio and television stations after scanning. Picture quality is good considering I'm using the supplied aerial and had to reposition it several times before I got a steady picture, however, a roof aerial might recieve a stronger signal in some areas. I found by setting it on top of a metalic object improves the image slightly. A T.V. show or film can be recorded to the computer's hard disk and viewed at a later date.
In order for product to be installed you're must have a free USB 2 port and Windows Vista or XP with service pack 2. It comes with the Win T.V. stick, a USB 2 extension cable, antenna, CD rom and installation sheet.
With my 22 inch monitor it is possible to have 2 applications on the screen at the same time i.e. browse the internet and watch T.V. etc. If you want digital television on your computer, then the Hauppauge WinTV stick will provide that. Works well for me.
 Great little Gadget March 2, 2008
Mr. Gary Meddick (UK)
10 out of 10 found this review helpful
I purchased this as i wanted to record freeview programs, as my PC is relativly new I did not want to break the warrenty seals to install an onboard card.
I have to admit that I have this linked to a full size antenna situated within my loft space. I decided to use WMC to control the device so have not installed the win TV softwear so far it has provided prfect picture and sound quality and along with the WMC tv softwear and EPG fullfils all of my requierments.
easy as pie October 20, 2007
Mr Stuff
8 out of 8 found this review helpful
Got this today and it worked fine straight out of the box. I am running it on a small internal aerial and it works perfectly. It doesn't even matter which way I point it.
software is ok as well.
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