Sabrent TV-USBHD Digital and Analog USB TV Tuner - ATSC Ready, HDTV, Analog, USB 2.0, Pendrive, Remote Control, Antenna, Vista Ready

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I'm running this on a Dell Latitude D630 laptop, with Windows XP as the OS. I followed the installation guide and was watching free HDTV in minutes! I get about 14 stations over the airwaves, including ABC, NBC and CBS. This product is awesome!

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This gaget is great...especially for the price. I am running it on an HP Pavillion with Vista and reception is perfect. Haven't even counted all the channels but I have it connected to cable. Great product, great service and shipped immediatly... good work TIGER !!!

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THIS PRODUCT WORKS GREAT AND IT WORKS WELL ON WINDOWS-VISTA!!!!VERY SATISFIED.KEEP UP THE GREAT WORK!!!

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I just bought this product. I plugged it into my wall with a coaxial cable, and now i'm stuck. When I try to scan channel, I don't find anything. I'm not really sure where to go from here. Does anyone know?

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I purchased this item 2 months ago. Running an HP Pavillion a1620n with Windows XP Media Center 2005 version and SP3. Everything works great except you have to be close to the tuner for the remote to work & I get no audio when trying to record. But hey, better than I expected for the price. I also tried it out on my hubby's PowerSpec w/Vista Home Basic...works just as good there too. Now he wants one. I am concidering purchasing the internal card now for me and giving the pindrive to my husband. Anyone have experience with the internal PCI product?

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Don't complaint about this great HDTV Tuner . Everything works at 99 % even with the small antenna , you only have to move it until you get the best reception and that's all . The image in my laptop is a real HD image . To those people that say the remote is worthless I suggest that aim the remote to the TV Tuner not to the screen and SURPRISE it works really pretty . 39.99 is a Christmas present .

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Be advised; this type of devices apparently were NOT made for XP...WARNED me that driver would make system unstable, support said ''install it anyways... next thing PC crashed! got a blue screen ''recovering from a serious error'', unistalled driver [back to normal], downloaded driver from site and tried again [same thing happened] wound up having to restore to a previous point! trying to return item was frustrating, device may be defective but they kept on arguing that it is my new PC what is wrong... definitly a bonk!

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For those of you complaining about reception... get a real amplified UHF-VHF antenna. What do you expect to get with that tiny one they supply in the box...not many. As for the slip on cable connection... go to Radio Shack and get an adaptor ($5) so you can hook up any antenna you want. (you guys are whiners) I tried this tuner with Vista, and it worked fine. With the supplied antenna I got 3 over the air HD channels. When I hooked it up to my Channel Master outdoor UHF antenna, I was able to get over 20. Conclusion... if you want more channels, get a dedicated (and larger) outdoor antenna, and then hook it up to the usb stick. Done.

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the units works okay, analog signal is not good even on cable but the digital signal is nice and clear. Replaced the external antenna with you 9 dollar antenna which works a lot better. The remote is worthless and doesn't work, I don't know why they even advertise it with it. I'm not the only one who has complained about the remote being worthless. Anyway, for the price it's all right, but accept the fact analog signal not that good and no remote....

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I was surpised how well this tiny antenna picked up my local stations! Face it, the thing is cheap! Some folks writing reviews are complaining about the thing not getting enough stations or advanced features...what do you expect for $39? I told myself I would be happy if it got only one station....now I get a few more than I did with my old antenna. I cannot afford cable or satellite. This is a very cheap alternative. No, it's not the same as cable...but it costs $39. I took this device to a friend's house to see show her. It took some fidgeting and a different antenna, but it worked. She ordered one the next day. I don't have Vista, only Windows XP home w/SP2. Perhaps this usb thing doesn't work with other people's systems? I don't know, but, it does work for mine well enough. One big complaint from me is that the instructions are horrible! No idea how to use the features and no graphics. It would be nice to know how to use it other than just viewing

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Very easy to use and to my surprise no problem with it at all since i do have doubts since its price is much lower then the other guys on the tiger. Finally, got something useful and at a meanning bargin price. Know what i mean?

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Super! Product works great! out of the box. Up to date CD-Software, easy to install. just like recording on an old vcr but in your PC! Looks like my son wants one for his own

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I have had this unit for 2 months. I run it on 4 systems. 1. T3104 E machine XP PRO SP3 2.0 GB RAM 1.80 GHz Processor Vision Tek Radeon X1550 (AGP 256MB) RUNS GREAT a 5* / 2. Acer Aspire M1100 3.00 GB RAM 1.90GHz DualCore processor Vista Home Premium ATI Radeon X1250 ( on board video) RUNS GREAT a 5 * 3. XFX Pentium D 3.4 GHz ( DualCore Procesor) 2.75 GB RAM XP PRO SP#3 on board Video RUNS GREAT a 5* 4. Acer Aspire 5315-2077 Laptop 2GB RAM RUNS GREAT a 5*// The antenna was not useful to me , I made a hand antenna out of three wires in circles and recieved 15 channels fron 55-75 mi away, moved my indoor Phillips powered antenna outdoors and now recieve 21 to 24 channels including HD SD and multicast. Remote Poorly constructed never worked, tried to remove bat to check, broke remote, no instructions(JUNK)Purchased a universal remote could not find a workable code. Currently trying to get another remote. OVERALL GREAT TV Tuner, poor antenna, get an outdoors one.

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This unit does not work on VISTA. The manufacturer will not respond. TigerDirect said they would contact them and get back to me. They did not. Do not buy this product for VISTA!

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This device does works pretty well, especially for the price. Picture quality on my HDTV is very good. I tested with XP and Vista Media Center - load the drivers and you're good. It does also appear to work with MediaPortal out of the box and Meedio Ultimate (with a custom graph file creation - be ready for some headaches there). An antenna adapter *is included* to hook it to an existing HDTV antenna. Good thing! Reception is dreadful with the crummy antenna that comes with it. I get several channels with the HTDV antenna in the attic. I could not get the bundled remote control to do anything. It doesn't work, at all. NO documentation included or available on the website, so good luck if it doesn't work for you! :)

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Product works great with one exception - the connector is a slip on type and my antenna and cable are both theaded. I asked at tiger if there was an adapter but they didn't know of one. I'll be returning it for something with a screw connector. Too bad 'cause it really works great. Much cheaper than a new tv.

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The HDTV works great. I'm sure with an amplified antenna it'd work even better. I got an amazing 6 HDTV channels. However the analog tv portion of this product sucks. All of my 78 cable tv channels I would get would have this high pitched white noise no matter what. I tried different usb ports and different computers and usb hubs and different cables and it would always get this high pitched white noise when using the analog tv option. You get what you pay for, I guess. It is cheap.

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I have been quite satisfied with this product. The small antenna that comes with the unit lacks in the reception department, but when used with am amplified HD antenna it works very well. I am 45 miles away from the closest HD channel, and with the amplified antenna I receive 6 local channels. With the original equipment antenna I receive only two channels. When hooked up to my cable the channels are endless. I am very satisfied with this product. You get what you pay for and this product is well worth the price.

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There is a reason that this has ''limited exchange priviliges - it just plain doesn't work. That is unless you happen to live right next door to an HDTV broadcast tower. The supplied antenna is completely useless, not even comparable to one of those cheap rabbit ear ones that we all remember so fondly. The software 'update' from the manufacturer's website won't install without a serial number and guess what - the one supplied isn't accepted. Not only that but you can't even swap the antenna provided for another one, the connection is non standard. All in all, a complete waste of time and money. If you're looking for cheap HDTV there are other alternatives that I wish I'd considered before buying this from Tiger Direct. And shame on Tiger Direct for not providing a decent exchange on this. I would gladly have paid a little extra for something that I can hook a decent antenna up to but don't even have the option to do that. Myself and my PC consultancy clients will go elsewhere in future