Artec DVB TV tuner £20.22 delivered

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Savastore


Artec USB Digital TV Box is a portable, advanced, and fine designed Digital TV solution that enhances the digital functionality on either your laptop computer or Multi Media PC. Artec T1 offers the capability of watching Digital TV at any time and anywhere to enjoy Digital Video Broadcasting Terrestrial (DVB-T). Unlike the regular analog TV system, our Digital TV Box also brings you the crystal clear and stable TV signals along with the beautiful video performance in your car, no matter how fast you are driving. Unsurpassed quality, compatibility and convenience give you the wonderful entertainment when you just simply plug in the USB cable between your laptop and TV Box without extra required power.

hambrook

If you can get ANY channels from the supplied bee-sting aerial, you must be sitting under Crystal Palace transmitter.

NilesD

I got just about all channels on mine...

Must be that Crystal Palace transmitter over my house...

Oh wait..

nicp01

can you recommend a portable aerial then thats best with this...

daviddonna

Personally I wouldn't have anything to do with Savastore. Had lots of problems in the past with this company.

deary65

nicp01 wrote:

can you recommend a portable aerial then thats best with this...

Have a read here:
http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?t=190364

scoobies

This seems like a good price but like most budget TV cards the software "appears" to be poor.

I would think it is best to get a device which has BDA drivers - which is another way of saying drivers which work with Windows Media Centre (MCE). This then gives you the option to use MCE (if you have it) or use other software than can run with cards that use BDA drivers such as GB-PVR or media portal (there are others as well)

The cheap USB device here at ebuyer has BDA drivers although no remote and others have reported getting it working with other software. According to one of the reviewers the device is actually a KWorld DVB-T 355U. I have one on order at present to see if is any better than my Compro T200 PCI card I already have.

In regards to reception - use your common sense - the aerial is basic. If you need a professional outside aerial to get freeview on your STB then this is unlikely to work for you on your PC. By all means give the small aerial a go before investigating getting an existing aerial signal to it. Failing that you could look at indoor aerials but these are often not very good. There is an indoor aerial suggested by this website

Good luck