Watch Digital Terrestrial Freeview TV on your PC

Advantages: Digital TV, Good picture quality, Excellent remote, User friendly software
Disadvantages: Can't pay for some listed channels, No video editing software, Long recordings freeze the program

...I had a Digital TV card before but the software was pants so I decided to buy a new card. I decided on the AVerMedia Hybrid TV + FM card because I had previously played with someone else's card and liked the look of software. I bought it online for £58.74. INSTALLATION Turn off the PC, pull out power (for safe measure), remove back PCI face plate, slot in card and screw it securely to the case. Then just plug in the cables at the back, install the drivers and software from the CD. Very easy and I thought the software was unexpected quickly to install. It's so easy to set up I didn't need to use the printed Quick Start Guide provided. An FM radio antenna is included but not a TV antenna, so you need to buy your own if you don't have one for the card. I would have liked for one to be included so that people whom do not have a spare...

Deru 10.02.2006 · Read review
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Review of AVerMedia AVerTV Hybrid + FM DVB-T PCI

cheap and cheerful TV

Advantages: cheap, loads of inputs
Disadvantages: almost obsolete in the UK

...I own one of these, it is an analogue TV card, and very soon is going to be obsolete in the UK. Here are some details Device Type: TV / radio tuner / video input adapter Enclosure Type: Plug-in card Interface Type: PCI Type: Video capture adapter Interface Type: S-video input, component video input Analogue Video Format: NTSC, PAL Analogue video Signal: S-Video, composite video Digital Video Format: MPEG-1, MPEG-2 Digital Video Capture Resolution: 720 x 480 Type: FM tuner - integrated Sound Input Mode: Stereo TV antenna - input FM antenna - input Composite video input - RCA S-video input - 4 PIN mini-DIN audio - line-out - mini-phone stereo 3.5 mm As you can see however, the card is well supported with connectors, so, if you can pick one of these cards up very cheaply, like around £3 on E-bay.... Ignoring the radio...

donley 20.10.2007 · Read review
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Review of AVerMedia AVerTV Studio 303

The Queen on .tv!

Advantages: layout, design, information, photos
Disadvantages: /

...I would say there are six websites that I could not live without. I would not say that it is a mixed bag of sites - it is either money making related or media related. One of these media related websites is the official website of my greatest inspiration in life. She is such a wonderful person, and a perfect role model. Who is this woman? Of course, it's Andrea McLean! If you for some reason do not know who Andrea McLean is, then I am a tiny bit offended! She was a long running weather girl for GMTV, only to give up that post a few months back. She is now the main anchor of ITV daytime chat show phenomenon Loose Women, a job I would kill for. She is one of the most amazing TV Presenters around, and has such a wonderful personality. The day I met her was one of the most amazing days of my life, a moment I will treasure forever. She...

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Review of andreamclean.tv

The (Very) Poor Man's SkyPlus!

Advantages: Cheap, given the wherewithal to finish it cheaply.
Disadvantages: Somewhat limited facilties. Crap manual

...the "Nerd Raid Warning" alarm. Well for a start, there's no real point to operating the Barebone's two Freeview tuners without a hard drive, since at this point, it's just a set-top box and your TV can only be connected to one tuner at a time, so it makes sense to dive straight in and fit that hard drive, assuming that you've not been totally enthralled by making naughty words in pasta by now, thus ensuring that you'll never be asked back as the entertainer at your little niece's birthday party??or gone dipping sheep, a crime only slightly less heinous than muffin the mule. The drive can be any full size (not laptop) IDE-type, now also known as PATA (not SATA), up to 500 gbytes. This presents a minor problem. Most new hard drives intended for a PC now spin a lot faster than they used to with an ensuing increase in noise levels...

BNibbles 03.06.2008 (04.06.2008) · Read review
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Review of Nikkai Barebone Twin Tuner Freeview Digital TV Recorder

  Topfield, Top Rank, Twin Tuners and TopUp TV Too

Advantages: Twin tuner flexibility. Good tech support with upgrades etc from toppy.org.uk forum
Disadvantages: A lot to learn, not helped by p***-poor manual

...April 2008 - Two years down the line, I remain convinced that, foibles excepted, the Topfield 5800 remains the clear leader in its field, so much so that I've bought second one before they stop making them in favour of the new 5810T. *************************************************************** I'd owned a PVR before; the excellent Humax 8000PVRT, designed solely for Freeview digital terrestrial TV, but since buying it, two things happened. a) I got fed up with paying £19.50/month to Sky, just for a load of dross intermingled with the free channels I can get elsewhere and b) My TV started to become very troublesome, and any replacement I was to buy was likely to be a flat screen monitor requiring outboard tuners. The Humax's single tuner for Freeview would then have been a limitation. To put the icing on the cake...

BNibbles 26.07.2005 (26.04.2008) · Read review
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Review of Topfield TF5800T

The Industry Standard Tuner

Advantages: Reliable, Sturdy, Easy to Use, Effective
Disadvantages: None.

...Every gigging musician needs to own one of these. I work as a sound engineer in various venues, and I can immediately guage the quality of a band on whether or not they have TU2's (or similair pedal tuners). The Boss TU2 provides a quick, reliable tuning solution for guitarists and bassists everywhere, at a very affordable price. There is nothing more annoying than out of tune guitars, musicians tuning by ear mid-set, or people sharing guitar tuners (causing long tuning breaks). Simply step on this pedal, tune up silently, step on it again and you're ready to play. Battery life is long, and despite not being true bypass, the pedal is more than suitable for live playing. The display is long enough to provide accurate tuning, and is very easy to see/read on dark stages due to the lit up red/green/red lights indicating flat...

nweststeyn 22.07.2007 · Read review
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Review of Boss TU2 Chromatic Tuner and Power Supply Pedal

NME TV

Advantages: Great music
Disadvantages: Too many advers

...I'm an individual who enjoys a good bit of music. Any genre will generally do if it's 'good' - by that I mean not some terrible cheesy pop song, but generally I'll stick to my indie/rock malarkey. So it's ideal then that the New Music Express has introduced their own TV station - NME TV... Operated by CSC Media Group, it replaced the music channel 'Minx' in November 2007 - which is odd as I believe Minx was more a pop music channel that indie. Upon it's launch, the first song it played was 'Up The Bracket' by the Libertines, so a perfect indication of what this channel would be playing. Like with all music channels, it's input is predominantly music videos - along with copious amounts of adverts - but it does also contain special shows, often highlighting bands with albums recently released or out soon either picking their...

carl.mcqueen 16.12.2009 · Read review
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Review of NME TV

Best tuner bar none

Advantages: ease of use,accuracy,build quality
Disadvantages: battery life

...more accurate than some rack mount tuners i have used in the past. This pedal also doubles up as a power supply for your other 9v effect pedals. If you are running then off the mains all you do is run your mains power to the tu20 and then link all the others to that. The only downside to this pedal is battery life. It does tend to go through them at a rate of knots. Overall if you are in the market for a good quality tuner with all the features you will ever need then look no further. This baby does it all....

zakkman 21.01.2008 · Read review
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Review of Boss TU2 Chromatic Tuner and Power Supply Pedal

Nice Card, Rubbish Software

Advantages: Digital TV, Very good picture quality, Aerial included
Disadvantages: Remote Control looks cheap, Software rubbish

...The JetWay DTV DVB-T PCI card is a Digital TV Tuner card for desktop computers. This means once you have installed it and its accompanying software, you can watch Digital Terrestrial (i.e. Freeview) TV on your computer. A USB version is also available but the one I have is the PCI version, which is installed inside a computer. I bought it for £54 including delivery off eBay but later found it at Ebuyer for just over £40. INSTALLING Installing it was pretty easy. I just turned off my computer, pulled out the power for safe measure, removed the back plate at an available PCI slot position, slotted the card in and then screw it down. That was the hardware installation done with. The rest was just to plug the power back in, fire up the computer and lastly install the drivers and software for the JetWay card from the CD provided...

Deru 17.03.2006 · Read review
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Review of Jetway DVB-T Digital PCI TV Tuner Card

Seiko SAT100 Guitar and Bass Tuner

Advantages: Economical, Easy to use, Great for beginners, Comes with batteries! Input and output sockets.
Disadvantages: Won't tune cheap acoustics properly.

...I bought this item for £15 from a specialist guitar shop and I have to say it was well worth every penny! I have an electric guitar, one of which was terribly out of tune. It corrected the tuning perfectly and now my guitar doesn't sound in pain every time I play it. This tuner can be used on acoustic guitars, as well as electric ones, also for bass guitars, but I do not own a bass so I don't know how it performs in that area. Electric guitars can be plugged into the side of the tuner for more precise tuning. It does have a built-in microphone, so connecting it to your guitar isn't completely necessary. Due to the microphone, this allows acoustic guitars to be tuned as well. It has a very simple interface, and as a beginner to the world of guitars, I found it extremely easy to operate. It has a digital display (two AAA batteries are...

shadysladyangela 20.08.2007 (19.07.2007) · Read review
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