Hauppauge WinTV Digital Rceiver

Midas

Hello All,

I was wondering if anyone on here had tried this product and if so what there experiences of it have been.

[font=verdana,arial,helvetica][size=-1][size=+1]Hauppauge WinTV Nova-T USB2

It's basically a Plug & Play USB digital TV receiver for a PC/Laptop.

I am thinking of getting one, but have one main worry - will it be able to receive digital signals through a portable aerial? (My PC is nowhere near an actual aerial socket).

Details on the product can be found here

http://www.hauppauge.co.uk/pages/products/data_nova-t-usb2.html




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Mattjimf

As long as your indoor ariel can pick up digital signals it should work fine.

deary65

have a look at this thread:
http://www.whatlaptop.co.uk/Forums/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=171641

gizmoleeds

I very much like the look of this product and am thinking of getting one for my laptop when I go to universtiy in a year's time (to avoid lugging a 14" telly from London to Leeds every holiday).

Hauppage have been sort of market leaders in TV cards for years, and I really like the spec of this one. Unless I get a mac this is the one I would get.

BTW it is £87.36 (inc vat and delivery) at https://www.dabs.com (my favourite website for PC stuff) - where have you seen it for sale and is it cheaper than this?

gizmoleeds

Scrap dabs, £69.90 incl delivery at https://www.amazon.co.uk

Hintza

I have a different one but found I needed a very good quality co-axial cable to get it to work properly. Signal was too weak on half the channels with a cheapy co-axial cable. So don't be surprised if an internal aerial doesn't work.


Great bit of kit though...no more vhs and no expensive dvd/hard drive recorder.

Midas

gizmoleeds wrote:

Scrap dabs, £69.90 incl delivery at www.amazon.co.uk

Yes I had seen it on Amazon for that price, looks like a decent buy to me.

However, in the light of what Hintza says, I think I might reconsider (PC isn't anywhere near aerial and don't really want yards of co-axial running round the house).

Does anyone currently use a non-digital TV-card that they would recommend??

Thanks.