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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Good peice of KIT, 17 Jan 2007
Hi on receiving this I tried and used the small aerial that came with this, It is useless, unless you live under a transmitter it won`t work.(this goes for anyother USB receiver) So I plugged it into an external aerial and it scaned in every freeview channel. The software this comes with is very basic, but it does the job. For people who want to know if it comes with BDA drivers, Yes it does!!. I`am currently using different software called GB-PVR which is free and much better than the software that this comes with.
I hope this helps,
Pete
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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
Quite disappointing..., 3 Feb 2007
Installation is no problem, and I didn't even bother trying the supplied internal aerial, as it seems that nobody has any luck with any of those. I picked up plenty of channels on my regular TV aerial.
My problem is stuttering. When watching the TV you get jumping - if recording, then it's on-screen corruption at the point where the jumping occurs. Bad signal? Well, possibly, but it's reporting around 70-75% signal strength, and a friend's MSI Sky Mega doesn't have the problem, although it does get really HOT. Any this may be the problem with the ATMT stick (it's actually a DigiO2 device, by the looks of it).
I noticed that when first used, there's hardly any stuttering, but it progressively gets worse, as the stick gets hotter and hotter. The MSI stick has little vents, but the ATMT stick seems to be completely sealed, and I just wonder whether it's just getting too hot - I might try and test this theory further by trying to keep the stick cool somehow.
Initial indications show that the supplied TV software (TV Jukebox) is ok, but interestingly, the drivers for the MSI device from their website, include PVR software that works with the ATMT stick, and potentially seems to be of a higher quality - it may be worth giving both a go.
I had hoped that I could use this stick as a make-shift PVR when on holiday, and the like, on my laptop - a lowly Dell Centrino 1.3Mhz. CPU utilisation doesn't seem to be a problem, and the MSI seems to function just fine - if I could just persuade my mate to do a swap, I'd be sorted.
Customer support (or at least responses) from ATMT are pretty good, although no Vista support for the forseeable future, I'd be tempted to buy something else though. I know I keep going on about it, but the MSI device just worked, and so I'm returning the ATMT, and will try and find one of those instead.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Telly on your computer for cheapness, marvellous., 23 Jan 2007
Installation: Software and Hardware very easy to install.
Use/Reliability: Can't do UK freeview interactive stuff. Easy to use however. Reliable (I use a good house aerial with an amp though). Haven't tried the little aerial. Needed a video driver update to run the hardware MPEG decoding. This isn't essential as the software decoding isn't CPU heavy anyway. The included software is good but this stick works with Cyberlink Power Cinema that has Picture-in-Picture, fullscreen EPG programme data etc
Pros: The little remote control is funky
If you have a PC it's cheaper than a TV+Freeview+Harddisk/DVD recorder.
One click to set the recorder from EPG
Recorded programmes stream over Netgear! (Somewhat Geeky and Thrilling)
Cons: The aforementioned lack of BBCi etc
Support!? .. No, done by a mix of Taiwan and China companies. Software developer's site is hosted in PROC, and has no support anyway.
Summary: Pay the license fee and fill HDD with loadsa High quality broadcast content, HURRAH!
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