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SiliconDust >
SiliconDust HDHomeRun Dual HDHR-US HD Digital Network Attached TV Tuner Device
Good for OTA viewers
- Pros: Works great, good sensitivity and easy setup.
- Cons: none at the moment.
- Other Thoughts: I wanted to review this, since some of the reviews have been all over the map. I've used an outside antenna for years and have a regular-sized (about 5 feet long) antenna mounted on the chimney with a pre-amp mounted at the antenna. I'm 30 - 40 miles from the antenna sites. I have a good signal even though there is a hill between me and the transmitters. I also have a rotator to turn it, and that helps.
All that to say this: if you can get a good signal, this device will pick up as well as any TV out there. Several reviewers have complained about this, but perhaps they were using an earlier model or had another issue.
Put it on your network, run the setup s/w, and watch with either Media Center or another app. For a tablet, you can buy an app (HomeRun) for that.
Great picture as expected, but works better and quicker than my PCI-based internal HDTV card. All in all, if you want to share TV, this is a better way of doing it rather than splitters and coax. Wireless works with this, but like any video streaming you've got to have a decent wireless signal.
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Reviewed By:Not-a-cable-guy.,5/20/2013 9:09:40 PM
This reviewer reports that his/her technical understanding of this type of product is High and has owned this product 1 day to 1 week.
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Elgato >
elgato Game Capture HD 10025010 USB to HDMI Interface
it sucks
- Pros: it records
- Cons: it occasionally makes your screen go black
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Reviewed By:N/A,5/20/2013 8:28:10 PM
This reviewer reports that his/her technical understanding of this type of product is Somewhat High and has owned this product 1 day to 1 week.
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Western Digital >
WD TV Live Media Player WDBHG70000NBK-HESN
Almost perfect
- Pros: Streams many formats, particularly the MP4's I already had converted for streaming via XBox. I needed a quiet solution that allowed to stream my media library from my Computer that also included Netflix and was wireless. This little box is packed with all sorts of nice applications on top of all this. It took me a little troubleshooting do to not working with a higher level of wireless encryption for me, but once I figured that out it works pretty flawlessly.
- Cons: I had to do some troubleshooting to get it working the way I wanted it to and stream my network shared movies.
- Other Thoughts: If they can make this thing stream a shared folder from a different network via the internet what else would you need?
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Reviewed By:AnITguy,5/20/2013 12:17:38 PM
This reviewer reports that his/her technical understanding of this type of product is High and has owned this product 1 day to 1 week.
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AVerMedia >
AVerMedia AVerTV HD DVR MTVHDDVRR PCI-Express x1 Interface
Great Card
- Pros: Works Amazing When in the Right hands.
Beautiful Quality.
Works well with my 360 and my Wii. - Cons: Software is garbage.
Drivers have a habbit of causing problems some people. Not hard to fix if you use a simple web search.
No Customer Support. Shame on you AverMedia!
Quality of Standard Def is very poor.. Be Warned if you plan on doing anything Pre-PS2.(Unless I'm doing something completely wrong, with the included software leaves very limited reasons as to why )
- Other Thoughts: The software is AWFUL! But it gets the job done. I use this to Live stream my consoles. They look crystal clear, no choppiness, no Input lag. I've had friends purchase the same card, some of which had problems, some did not. Most of the people who had problems Reinstalled windows and their problems went away, which indicates a Driver Compatibility Issue... Most likely conflicting with something else in your system.
I'd love to play PS2 Games, but unfortunately I can't get the quality to look like it does without the capture card. It looks extremely blurry and dull-grayish. I've used Composite, Component, Svideo, and it all looks like garbage. The software's included options to change the settings are Limited to non existent, so trying to make it look "good" had proven to be too much of a hassle. I've chucked this up to User Error ( FOR NOW ) And took 1 Star off for How their software limits you in every way possible, and the lack of support from Aver media.
If there's a better alternative to the software included, I'd highly recommend it - But after extensive researching nobody seems to make an independent software which does what I need it to do, at least one that's free.
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Reviewed By:Mart,5/20/2013 4:40:08 AM
This reviewer reports that his/her technical understanding of this type of product is High and has owned this product more than 1 year.
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Ceton >
Ceton InfiniTV 4 Quad-tuner Card for Watching Digital Cable TV on the PC, PCI-Express x1 Interface
Worst Computer component I ever bought!
- Pros: Worked Good when they finally sent me a new card.
- Cons: quit working after about an hour. system can no longer find it.
- Other Thoughts: just a note, does not work with Nvidia chipset boards, this after I purchased and would not install, then 3 weeks of tech support, Ceton blaming Comcast, and vice versa, finally received an RMA, to late for Newegg to give me my money back, then I get the new card to work for an hour.
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Reviewed By:N/A,5/19/2013 9:24:59 PM
This reviewer reports that his/her technical understanding of this type of product is High and has owned this product 1 week to 1 month.
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Hauppauge >
Hauppauge WinTV-HVR-2250 Dual TV Tuner w/ MPEG-2 Encoder PCI-E x1 - OEM
Great Card
- Pros: Works great with my system (below). Windows Media Center makes this card into an out of the box DVR on my PC. It just works! Dual recording - no prob.
Win7 Pro
Phenom II X4 955
6GB Ram
x64 - Cons: None yet, been running strong for 2 yrs+
- Other Thoughts: The channel organization is a little befuddling but I don't know enough to know if it is a WMC thing or just a digital TV comcast thing. Either way its not the card's problem.
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Reviewed By:N/A,5/18/2013 10:10:04 AM
This reviewer reports that his/her technical understanding of this type of product is average and has owned this product more than 1 year.
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SIIG, Inc >
SIIG USB2.0 to VGA External Adapter JU-000071-S1
Resolution up to 1680x1050
Worst product, do not buy
- Pros: worked for about 10 minutes
- Cons: unreliable hardware, and software, horrible tech support. No help, no resolution, and they blame you for the product not working, instead of resolving the problem.
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Reviewed By:Krazybassman,5/18/2013 9:53:47 AM
This reviewer reports that his/her technical understanding of this type of product is High and has owned this product 1 month to 1 year.
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Western Digital >
WD TV Play Media Player WDBMBA0000NBK-HESN
junk
- Pros: cheaper than others
- Cons: does not work for me
- Other Thoughts: keeps disconnecting from my media server, and the only way to reconnect is to do a full factory reset. very convenient. it's a piece of junk.
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Reviewed By:N/A,5/17/2013 7:12:14 PM
This reviewer reports that his/her technical understanding of this type of product is average and has owned this product 1 week to 1 month.
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Diamond Multimedia >
DIAMOND HD TV Tuner Card TVW750PEC PCI-Express x1 Interface
Diamond tech support said find something else.
- Pros: None.
- Cons: I know why it is tv (wonder). Because It is a wonder it works for even a few seconds once in a blue moon on a lucky night. Tech support is only open 9-5 and took 1.5 hrs to get through. When I did I told him everything Then asked what his personal opinion was on what the most logical thing to do is. Getting a replacement from them or getting refund to choose a different card. He said honestly my personal opinion is find something else. He works in diamond tech support people HELLO !!!
- Other Thoughts: If you still are thinking about buying don't and just send me the
40 $. You are wasting your money either way.
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Reviewed By:N/A,5/17/2013 9:17:11 AM
This reviewer reports that his/her technical understanding of this type of product is High and has owned this product 1 week to 1 month.
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