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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Nebula DigiTV Card

Advantages: excellent price, lots of features, ongoing enhancements to software
Disadvantages: roof-mounted aerial usually required

...An excellent product. The features list is endless and there is so much more this product can offer you than other competitors. If you have a network, everyone on your network can share tv with you. The installation is very easy to do and you can get the tv card working with your computer in a matter of minutes. The auto-tune facility takes around 30 seconds, compared with over 20 minutes for the same type of search with the wintv nova-t. Digital text, and interactive content works well, there are some bugs left but new software is available every couple of weeks for this card and always offers more functionality. This is one of the few DTT TV Cards that comes with a remote control, the control works well and you can get it to operate other applications on your computer too (winamp for example). It is very easy...

markays 08.11.2004 · Read review
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My PC Is A TV, Now With Hi-Definition Option!

Advantages: Turns your PC into a Freeview Personal Video Recorder
Disadvantages: Not all PCs suited to siting in lounge

...work?, it?s hardly a suitable situation for family viewing. Besides, I?ve a 16:9 TV, which can take advantage of Freeview?s native wide screen format whereas my 4:3 monitor renders this as the usual ?band across the middle? with stripes top and bottom. You CAN specify a 4:3 format to fill the monitor screen, but you lose one of digital TV?s main attractions like that. Incidentally, sound is fed via an optical link from my sound card to my Yamaha Digital Surround tuner/amplifier ? this gives me true 5.1 channel sound when watching a DVD and stereo from the TV. It also goes without saying that any analogue sound card can produce stereo at the very least. My only reservation is that there seems to be a discernible jerkiness to the depiction of movement ? it not too distressing, rather like sitting too close to the screen at the cinema, but...

BNibbles 25.06.2004 (19.05.2007) · Read review
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Card Factory

Advantages: Great products at low prices
Disadvantages: Long queues and some products a little tacky

...Card buying can be an expensive thing, especially at this time of year and as much as I love the quality of the cards in stores such as Clintons, with my large family I just cannot afford to buy all my family cards from stores such as these at Christmas. So I was pretty impressed with Card Factory opened up a store in my local town recently. For me this store offers good quality products, but at really cost effective prices. Obviously their main market is the card market. They offer cards for all occasions including birthdays, anniversaries, moving, sorry, thank you and general cards too. Their cards are priced at 59p for a small card, 89p for a medium card and 99p for a large card, which for me is excellent value for money. They do extra large cards which do cost a bit more and they also do a couple of cards in each range for just...

bexx0907 14.12.2009 · Read review
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Probably one of the Cheapest and Best TV PCI Card

Advantages: Watch Analgue and Digital Freeview TV on your PC, Record TV
Disadvantages: Need to OPEN PC to slot in PCI card, Need a free PCI Slot

...WHY BUY A TV AND A FREEVIEW BOX WHEN YOU CAN USE YOUR PC I didn't have a tv in my room since there wasn't any room for even a small one. I thought how would I be able to view TV in my room. Buying a Flat Screen TV (which probably is the only TV that would have fit into my small room) would have cost my A LOT of money that I didn't have. I also would have had to buy a FREEVIEW Box.. More money expenses. Having searched on the INTERNET I came across many different TV PCI Cards. I FINALLY came across the WinTV-HVR-1100 PCI Card. Having visited the Hauppauge website and reading reviews on this product I couldn't believe how good and cost effective this PCI card was. I brought the PCI Card for around £45.00. You get an Instruction Manual with the PCI Card so even the novice computer Hardware person (like me) is able to...

qasem121 12.07.2007 · Read review
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Review of Hauppauge WinTV HVR-1100

  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

...; the added-on pay channels. Ever the pessimist, I assumed that each tuner would need its own subscription card, but no. Having lost E4 to Freeview, I wasn't sure whether there's really anything I'd want on TopUpTV, but as an experiment, I took it on; the advantage it has over Sky is that you're only tied into a month-by-month contract, with no minimum period, other than a month of course. Oh yes, and it was £12/month cheaper! The subscription card only gets used either when you are a) actually watching a TUTV channel live, or b) when playing back a recording of a TUTV programme Since you're not likely to try playing back two TUTV recordings at once, you only need the one smart card installed. Therefore, there's nothing to stop you recording two TUTV channels at once despite only having paid the one subscription. - it's how many...

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

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...

Amy69 12.09.2009 · Read review
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Oyster Card

Advantages: Convenient
Disadvantages: You could lose it!

...We Londoners are insistent people. We want cheap travel to anywhere in one of the biggest cities in the world. We want it regularly, without delays and seven days a week?if possible. Not too much to ask then?oh and we want a convenient travel card rather than paying with cash for each individual journey. Of course. Ladies and gentlemen, say hello to the Oyster card then. For those who don?t live in London or perhaps have never even stepped foot in the capital, the following paragraphs may read like absolute gobbledegook, but trust me, I think I know what I?m talking about and I think it makes sense. The Oyster card is basically a form of electronic ticketing used on public transport ? buses, some National Rail trains, trams, underground and the Docklands Light Railway system within Greater London. The blue card, which costs just a £3...

carl.mcqueen 26.07.2009 · Read review
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Nectar Card

Advantages: Lots of retailers to collect with
Disadvantages: Online points may not equal amount of cashback available elsewhere

...The nectar card is the loyalty card associated with Sainsbury's, however it has since branched out and is affiliated with many companies which allows for maximum point collecting! Let's start with the basics, you get 2 points per pound spent at Sainsburys or 1 point per litre of petrol bought at the Sainsbury's petrol garage. Each point accumulated is worth half a penny, so you need 2 points to equal 1 pence. If you redeem your points in store at Sainbury's then you will need minimum 500 points for £2.50 off o your shopping. Points need to be redeemed in increments of 500. Points can also be collected in other stores, for example Dolland and Aitchinson also give 2 points per pound, as do Homebase. As far as I am aware however, you cannot redeem your points against your total bills in these stores. Points can also be collected...

rachieb123 06.10.2009 · Read review
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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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