- Turn your computer into a Digital TV
- Watch & record Freeview Digital TV on your Laptop or PC
- Watch & record 2 different channels at the same time
- Effortless installation
- Legendary BlackGold image quality & reliability
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Product Description
Watch and record all the 70+ UK Freeview Digital TV (DVB-T) and radio channels in DVD quality, on your Laptop or PC. Effortless installation - simply plug into the USB port on your computer, connect to a suitable aerial and you are ready to watch digital TV. Watch and record UK Freeview Digital TV on your laptop or PC. Receive all UK Freeview Digital TV and radio channels. Watch and record 2 different channels at the same time. Support for High Definition HDTV when available. Fully featured Personal Video Recorder and Media Center software - when used with Windows Media Center or the BlackGold Ultimate TV software: Watch, record, pause, rewind and time-shift live TV. Schedule recordings with the integrated Electronic Program Guide. Note: Windows Media Center is included with most Vista and some XP computers. The BlackGold Ultimate TV software is supplied separately. Worldwide support - Works in many other locations than the UK - in fact anywhere that the DVB-T TV system is used. Currently this includes: Australia, Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Malta, Netherlands, Russian Federation, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and Taiwan. Multiple Installations supported - Use 2 or more BlackGold TV Sticks to watch or record more channels simultaneously. Never miss the action - use the BlackGold TV Stick to add more TV tuners to an existing Media Center PC with an internal TV card - perhaps you may need to record 3 channels whilst watching that special event...Must be used with a good rooftop aerial. Full details on the blackgold.tv website
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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful
I used this product with Windows Vista Media Centre. Installation was dead easy - double click on the driver, then connect the USB TV stick. Job done! It's as easy as that! It turned my Laptop into a brilliant TV. All the software I needed to watch and record TV with a full epg was already installed on my laptop with Vista Home Premium.
It needs a proper aerial for use in the UK - preferably a roof top aerial. Aparently the TV signal in the UK is not strong enough to be used with a portable aerial so this is not a mobile product. I have checked - all the other USB TV sticks are the same. If they say they work with a mini portable aerial in hte UK they are lying. I used the supplied small aerial when I went to Germany and it worked perfectly - even in the car when moving!
Me and my friends have tried a few of these USB TV sticks and this BlackGold one seems to have the best tuner as it always finds the most TV stations.
Image quality is brilliant - just the same as my Sony LCD TV and the recording are the same quality.
My friend uses one of these with his desktop PC - because it connects via USB it is the only TV card he can use without opening the case of the PC and invalidating the warranty.
It needs a proper aerial for use in the UK - preferably a roof top aerial. Aparently the TV signal in the UK is not strong enough to be used with a portable aerial so this is not a mobile product. I have checked - all the other USB TV sticks are the same. If they say they work with a mini portable aerial in hte UK they are lying. I used the supplied small aerial when I went to Germany and it worked perfectly - even in the car when moving!
Me and my friends have tried a few of these USB TV sticks and this BlackGold one seems to have the best tuner as it always finds the most TV stations.
Image quality is brilliant - just the same as my Sony LCD TV and the recording are the same quality.
My friend uses one of these with his desktop PC - because it connects via USB it is the only TV card he can use without opening the case of the PC and invalidating the warranty.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Packaging is very basic - A plain brown box with no instructions or information inside.
- The tuner stick,
- A USB extension cable so you don't have to have the tuner projecting from the back of your PC
- A converter cable for the TV aerial cable
- A small stick aerial
- A Blackgold compliments slip
The sticky label on the outside of the box gave a web URL for downloading the latest drivers.
Sadly, I can't comment on how well it works (although I've read good things about it) because it transpired that there are no 64-bit drivers on the Blackgold web-site for this device. Most of the other products have one, so this omission is a bit odd.
My Windows media PC has 64-bit Windows (like a lot of new machines), so this tuner simply wont work.
It's going back. Hauppage, here I come.
- The tuner stick,
- A USB extension cable so you don't have to have the tuner projecting from the back of your PC
- A converter cable for the TV aerial cable
- A small stick aerial
- A Blackgold compliments slip
The sticky label on the outside of the box gave a web URL for downloading the latest drivers.
Sadly, I can't comment on how well it works (although I've read good things about it) because it transpired that there are no 64-bit drivers on the Blackgold web-site for this device. Most of the other products have one, so this omission is a bit odd.
My Windows media PC has 64-bit Windows (like a lot of new machines), so this tuner simply wont work.
It's going back. Hauppage, here I come.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
I am relitively computer illiterate so this was installed for me by a third party who informed me that it was dead easy. It was found that an external aerial was significantly better than the one provided. I had this installed on a laptop and was well pleased that I was able to record two programmes plus watch an alternative third. The only drawback that I considered COULD be a possibility, was that the wires to the computer and the wires to the aerial with the constant moving would they be damaged in the long term.
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