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| Brand: | AverMedia |
| Maximum Display Resolution: | 720 pixels |
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| Tuner Technology: | Digital TV |
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- Smart blue light display for signal detector, HDTV H.264 / MPEG-2 Live TV Ready
- Recording Videos in H.264 Format and Playing on iPod and PSP
- Eco-friendly design – Low power consumption
- High gain antenna – specially designed for laptop use
- Stylish casing design to perfectly match your digital lifestyle
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Manufacturer's Description
AVerTV Volar Black HD adopts the stylish cylinder casing to soften the icy impressions among a pool of USB sticks in the marketplace. The embedded blue LCD light provides more convenience to users to detect the digital signal strength. This package also comes with a foldable High-Gain Antenna, specially designed for laptop use, which offers marvelous PCTV entertainment anywhere they go.
The latest AVerTV 6 with Enhanced Video Render (EVR) function to ensures that users are perfectly entertained to watch premium video quality without adding CPU loading on Vista platform. In addition, by supporting up to 1080i high definition TV viewing, the Volar Black HD offers users to watch and record HDTV programs with H.264 and MPEG-2 formats. Now, no more worry about missing any of your favourite TV shows.
The newest AVerTV 6 also offers advanced real-time H.264 recording compression technology up to resolution of 320X240 iPod and PSP Video format recording. It also saves more than 4X hard disk spaces comparing with MPEG-2 format. Now, you can also enjoy your favourite show on your iPod and PSP device.
Last but not the last, AVerMedia has adopted the strictest NorDig* Unified specifications in RF sensitivity for this product in order to deliver the most superior video quality to worldwide customers.
Product Description
- The latest AVerTV 6 with Enhanced Video Render (EVR) function to ensures that users are perfectly entertained to watch premium video quality without adding CPU loading on Vista platform
- In addition by supporting up to 1080i high definition TV viewing the Volar Black HD offers users to watch and record HDTV programs with H.264 and MPEG-2 formats
- Now no more worry about missing any of your favorite TV shows!
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Customer Reviews
Most Helpful Customer Reviews
10 of 10 people found the following review helpful
I bought this stick to use with a 64-bit (x86_64) Linux distribution and the 2.6.32 kernel. According to the Linux kernel release notes the driver for this specific model has been built into the kernel since kernel version 2.6.30. However, when I plugged in the stick to my laptop the output from dmesg indicated that a firmware file (dvb-usb-af9015.fw) was missing. Neither the installation guide nor the CD that came with the stick mention Linux, but I googled the name of the missing firmware file and found it on the Web, downloaded it and copied it into the /lib64/firmware/ directory. Then I rebooted and now the stick is detected properly. I have tried it successfully with Tvheadend as a backend and XBMC as a frontend, and it works a treat.
The supplied mini aerial is useless: I had to plug my house external TV aerial into the stick before it was possible to detect any channels when scanning. But it does work very well when this is done.
I'm awarding this stick four stars, rather than five, because a) there was absolutely no mention of Linux in the installation guide or CD; b) there was a missing firmware file which I had to find for myself on the Internet and install (fortunately I knew in which directory I had to put it). However the stick does work well if you know how to set it up in Linux. I have not tried it with Windows.
The supplied mini aerial is useless: I had to plug my house external TV aerial into the stick before it was possible to detect any channels when scanning. But it does work very well when this is done.
I'm awarding this stick four stars, rather than five, because a) there was absolutely no mention of Linux in the installation guide or CD; b) there was a missing firmware file which I had to find for myself on the Internet and install (fortunately I knew in which directory I had to put it). However the stick does work well if you know how to set it up in Linux. I have not tried it with Windows.
8 of 8 people found the following review helpful
I don't usually write reviews, but this little tuner impressed me so much that I thought others should know. The set up was childs play, I had loaded it on to my Toshiba NB100 Netbook and was watching TV in minutes, even the little aerial supplied with it looks too small to be serious, but works exceptionally well. I have three portable items, with Freeview on them, the 7" Nextbase TV, the 3.5" August and an Orbit DVD player, and with the exception of the August TV, I was begining to think that Freeview and portable didn't go together, I was wrong, I live in an area where Freeview on a portable aerial is very difficult, it's a case of sliding it around window sills until you get a picture, well not with this little beauty, I can't claim to have got all the channels, for some reason Channel 3 and Channel 5 are not there, but most of the rest are. So if you have a use for one of these and thinking of buying one, I strongly recommend you go for the AVerTV Volar Black HD A850 picture quality can't be beaten. My wife is so impressed although she couldn't understand why I wanted to buy one in the first place, she's ordering one for herself.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
This is an excellent product that gives high quality results and is simple to setup. Just want to confirm it works fine with the Irish digital TV (DTT) that is undergoing trials at the moment. I can easily pick up 4 TV channels -- RTE1, RTE2, RTE rolling News, TG4 -- and the RTE digital radio channels with just the included aerial in Co Cork in an area where analogue TV reception is poor to average. However please note you don't get TV3 or any other channels at the moment. The Volar sets up easily in Windows 7 media center and then you get the electronic program guide (EPG) so you can record a program if you wish. As a bonus the included AVerTV 6 application is as good as any bundled software of this type and is probably quicker to use under normal circumstances. Might buy the dual AVer tuner in the future so I can record and watch at the same time. Now we just need a few more Irish TV channels -- ASAP!
Most Recent Customer Reviews
No TV Card
I have purchased 2 Aver TV Dongles, both work extremely well, I bought a stick-like one that came with it's own aerial, although the aerial was nothing to look at, I stuck it to my... Read more
Published 7 months ago by N. Simpson
Only Kinda HD
While the build quality is fine, the drivers are stable and reception is no worse than anything else I used before it is only a single channel dvb-t receiver. Read more
Published 7 months ago by MyPenNameHere
Excellent. Eccellente.
Eccellente rapporto tra la qualità del prodotto e il suo prezzo.
Excellent relationship between the quality of the product and its price
Excellent relationship between the quality of the product and its price
Published 8 months ago by Giuseppe
One big issue
This is a great little tuner, and does what it says on the box. But there is one major issue that could be problematic for some buyers, and it certainly was for me. Read more
Published 13 months ago by Mr. L. Jones
Excellent Selection
Bought this for my son at Xmas for his laptop.
When he tried it briefly at my house it did not work. Read more
When he tried it briefly at my house it did not work. Read more
Published 16 months ago by Mr. Philip Hampson
Works great on Win 7
Tried two of these on my Windows 7 PC . Driver installs ok but no channels to start with. They now work great. 99 - 100% signal strength & all the TV & radio channels. Read more
Published 18 months ago by J. B. Kelly
Awesome
What an excellent piece of kit.
Really easy to set up on my netbook and what a picture.
The strange thing is that the picture quality is even better when... Read more
Really easy to set up on my netbook and what a picture.
The strange thing is that the picture quality is even better when... Read more
Published 20 months ago by Exiled1965
Micro TV
Apart from August this item is really reliable. Quality of picture is good. Controls are comprehensive. Wow! It works on friend`s Mac!
Published 20 months ago by Ebel
Usb TV
A first class product that works fine on PC or Laptop. Obviosly the supplied aerial is subject to getting a good reception, but attached to a main antenna, it is as good as your... Read more
Published 22 months ago by Serejkin
No reception at all
After installation, I repeatedly ran a scan with both the included antenna
and a roof aerial. It didn't pick up a single station for either TV or radio. Read more
and a roof aerial. It didn't pick up a single station for either TV or radio. Read more
Published 24 months ago by Bar Rista
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