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Get TV on your notebook with AVerMedia's Hybrid Volar Max. This USB 2.0 interface tuner has support for ATSC over the air and Clear QAM cable digital TV signals. HDTV up to 720p/1080i is supported. There is also an FM Stereo tuner and a Vista Sidebar Gadget to control it.
The kit comes with everything you need, including the antenna, and A/V cables. A travel bag lets you keep it all together. Never miss your favorite show just because you are on the road again.
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Great tuner for the money
- Pros: Great tuner for only 80$. Works well with a Toshiba Satellite A205-5000 running a Celeron 540@1.86 Gig processor and 2 gig ram. I do not use timeshift and if something memory intensive is running the HD TV signal will jump.That is understandable since my laptop is well below the minimum requirements for the tuner! The recording feature is great, as well as recording off of the composite input. I am converting years of VHS tapes to DVD, and it works great! The Avermedia center is much easier to use than Windows media center. Great way to have an HD TV that can be moved from room to room if you have a laptop. Using a high gain UHF TV antenna with rotor and indoor pre-amp I can pick up HD TV in three states: Georgia, Tennessee, Alabama.
- Cons: Can not decode a digital fm signal yet. Pick up fm from five states, but no digital fm yet. Atlanta is 60 miles away, but avermedia center does not find any on auto scan at all. Maybe I am doing something wrong? I am a 20 year amateur radio operator.
I find Microsoft Media Center useless compared to avermedia center. Obviously they are scared as you get multiple whine screens from vista when running the avermedia center. Windows Media center only tunes first hd tv stations, no -2,-3, etc. Can not figure out how to get Windows media center to tune live fm period, keep getting sent to Internet stations, which I could care less about. In my opinion lose Windows Media Center and use avermedia center and you will be happy. I have the full movie package on Charter, using digital QAM scan on a cable input yields only 5 locked stations. Obviously Charter is not sending free qam HD signals and ignoring the FCC rule that mandates they do so. I use an a/b switch for antenna and cable box outpu
- Other Thoughts: I am into TV and FM dx'ing and have been for 25 years. I feel there are some areas of improvement though, especially with digital fm and QAM over cable. Please send advice to w4amp at charter dot net. Thanks
Awesome Tuner
- Pros: Very small tuner, doesn't get very hot, all channels come in crystal clear, recording works very well. QAM works well.
- Cons: It doesn't exactly fit tight in a USB port, when I put the cable antenna on the tuner it shakes around a lot, wish it would fit tight. Consumes a lot of RAM/system resources.
- Other Thoughts: Make ABSOLUTELY sure your computer meets the minimum system requirements. I had to upgrade my computer to 4GB of RAM because with 2GB it kept freezing when I was running other programs. If you have a computer that exceeds the requirements, then the tuner will suit you well, just don't expect much if you meet the requirements perfectly.
| Model | MTVHBVMXR |
| Type | USB Tuner Stick |
| TV Tuner | Hybrid Tuner |
| TV Standards | ATSC / ClearQAM / NTSC |
| FM Tuner | Yes |
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Good product
- Pros: It's portable, it's light-weight, it's great for someone who doesn't want (or know how) to open up their case and put in a PCI video tuner card. It's reasonably priced and works well.
- Cons: The software that comes bundled with this is terrible. At first I thought the odd skipping and sound issues to be the hardware, but the hardware actually functions quite nicely. AVer's bundle software is just so poorly laid out. Use Windows Media Center or some other program other than AVerMedia's so you can have a guide, stream it to your xbox360, just don't use that software!
- Other Thoughts: I dropped an egg just because the software bundled was so bad. The cable at my complex is far from being close to "good" signal, but this little USB 2.0 baby does quite well enough.
Good but has its hiccups
- Pros: Works quick and effortlessly once set-up properly, displays all desired content well and does not miss any channels.
- Cons: Takes a long time to set-up the initial channels and can be difficult if you are unsure of what settings to use. Has some trouble with interference and cannot be moved or else interference in displayed on the picture.
- Other Thoughts: I bought the card to watch tv at college on my 1080p monitor. It displays all of the hd channels perfectly, the only problem is that whenever my computer (a laptop) is moved and the card is shifted, my picture is interupted and sometimes remains messed up until I fix the orientation of the card. Overall it does everything it advertises and does it well. The media player included was used for a short time but I mainly stream my windows media to my xbox, so I cannot give an accurate review of the software.
Works.
- Pros: Works as advertised. Picture and sound are excellent if the incoming signal is strong. Receiver is very sensitive specially considering the size of the included antenna. Pickups a ton of FM stations. More than my big stereo receiver!
- Cons: Supplied software works, but the interface is really poorly designed. Took quite a bit of "experimenting" to figure out how to do basic operations like rescan the channels. Have had a few lockups while changing channels, but seems to work fine if you don't flip a lot. Haven't had any luck picking up VHF signals with the included antenna. Probably because the wave length would require a much longer set of "ears".
- Other Thoughts: The included antenna is tiny, but amazingly the receiver antenna combo seems to work as well as my big UHF roof antenna. I live about 55 miles from the some of the stations and they are coming in just fine on the tiny antenna they send you. I need to try a different antenna to see if I can pull in some of the VHF stations that I can receive on my big TV and antenna.
| Model |
| Brand |
AVerMedia |
| Model |
MTVHBVMXR |
| General |
| Type |
USB Tuner Stick |
| TV Tuner |
Hybrid Tuner |
| TV Standards |
ATSC / ClearQAM / NTSC |
| FM Tuner |
Yes |
| Remote Control |
No |
| Interface |
USB 2.0 |
| Features |
| Windows Vista |
Certified for Windows Vista |
| Features |
Analog TV broadcast (NTSC)
Over-The-Air Digital TV broadcasts (ATSC)
Unencrypted "Clear" QAM support (Digital Cable)
High Definition (HDTV) quality support up to 1080i/720p
FM Radio
Windows XP/Vista MCE fully compliant by S/W encoder
Windows Vista Premium logo certificated
32/64-Bit driver support
USB 2.0 interface
USB-IF logo certified
Stereo sound
Real-time H.264 recording support
Multi-card support |
| Specifications |
| Ports In |
75 O TV / FM Antenna Input
S-Video (Using a dongle cable)
Composite input (Using a dongle cable)
L/R Stereo input (Using a dongle cable) |
| System Requirements |
| Processor |
For TimeShift and Record in MPEG-2
Pentium Mobile 1.8GHz
Pentium 4 2.6GHz (Hyper-Threading)
AMD AthlonXP 2400+
Analog TV on MCE platform
Pentium 4 3.0G or Equal AMD CPU
For H.264 Recording
Pentium 4 3.0GHz with HT (Hyper-Threading) or Equivalent AMD Processor for Analog TV
Intel Dual Core 1.6GHz or Equivalent AMD processor for Digital HDTV |
| Graphics Card |
128 M VGA card with DirectX 9.0c or above(Supporting DXVA is recommended in HDTV mode) |
| Memory |
512 MB RAM or above |
| Available Slot |
USB 2.0 Port |
| Operating Systems Supported |
Windows XP / XP MCE / Vista / Vista MCE |
| Others |
Sound card |
| Packaging |
| Package Contents |
Quick Installation Guide
Installation CD (included AVer MediaCenter)
USB Cable
Bag
S-Video/Composite 2 in 1 Cable
Free High Gain Antenna |
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Reviewed By: W4AMP on 9/16/2008
Tech Level: somewhat high - Ownership: 1 month to 1 year
