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1. HAUPPAUGE AND PCTV SOFTWARE HOW TO
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3. HAUPPAUGE AND PCTV SOFTWARE SOFTWARE

The Freecom DVB-T USB Stick offers a surprisingly good package for only £27. The EPG is a separate web-based application, but usefully can be remotely scheduled over the internet.

HAUPPAUGE AND PCTV SOFTWARE SOFTWARE

It isn’t a hybrid tuner (the £62 HVR-900 is Hauppauge’s alternative), but as around 80% of the UK can receive digital TV it’s the better choice for most people just note the lack of a remote.Īlso, Hauppauge’s software is in need of a facelift – the WinTV 2000 viewer looks dated, although it works well enough and lets you one-touch pause and record by default. The Hauppauge WinTV Nova-T USB is also compatible with MCE and only costs £31. However, the MCE compatibility somewhat offsets any shortcomings in Kworld’s software.

The only gripe is that the EPG proved near-impossible to set up. The 310U is a tuner for enthusiasts, as it allows TV recording in MPEG4 as well as capturing the raw transport stream. Kworld also bundles software for editing the captured video and authoring it to DVD. Plus, it lets you capture analogue video from the S-Video or composite inputs and convert it to MPEG1/2/4 or DivX. Pausing and recording is simple: the Volar supports wake from S3 standby mode – you don’t have to leave your notebook turned on – as well as Windows Media Center Edition.īut, for only £3 more, the Kworld DVB-T 310U offers both digital and analogue reception. The list when watching live TV is in the “right” order, though. We struggled to make any programme information appear at all, and the channels are listed by multiplex, not in a sensible order. But, once it had picked up all 66 Freeview channels (including radio stations), it was quick to change between them.Īgain, though, the EPG seems to be an afterthought: it pops up in a separate window and is poorly formatted.

HAUPPAUGE AND PCTV SOFTWARE HOW TO

While the installation process is painless, it isn’t obvious how to scan for channels. It’s great that you can record TV in DivX format, but for £32 we’d expect a bit more cohesion.Įven if you pay £6 more for the AVerMedia AVerTV DVB-T Volar, there are still niggles. Lastly, it took up to 30 seconds to change channels. Sadly there’s no support for Windows MCE, the remote control wasn’t very responsive, the main TV interface has too many cryptic icons and is designed to be used with a mouse rather than the remote. Plus, you have to go there to scan for TV channels and, rather than the EPG being turned on by default, you have to enable it in the options.

HAUPPAUGE AND PCTV SOFTWARE FULL

You don’t get the full Pinnacle Media Center application, just TVCenter, and the settings are accessed from a separate Settings icon on the Desktop. Software is one crucial aspect of any TV tuner and Pinnacle’s PCTV USB Stick is bundled with a good example of frustrating software.