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- koonchu, on 10/12/2007, -3/+22@curtissthompson:
Your article gets a Digg, period. People who whine about dupes are just jealous their submission didn't get the spotlight. - tpaine, on 10/12/2007, -2/+10I have to say that this digg is written better though. Dugg.
- Ryzir, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7This tuner is much better and supports QAM so you can hook it up to your cable and receive unencrypted HD channels.
http://fusionhdtv.co.kr/eng/Products/HDTV5usb.aspx - moofree, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7That title was inaccurate too, this is definately not the first mobile hdtv tuner.
- carlosglz, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5This one is the size of a USB flash drive and is only $59:
http://www.pcalchemy.com/product_info.php/pName/artec-t14a-mini-usb-20-digital-tv-tuner-retail/cName/hdtv-tuner-cards - Swift2, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4I'm using the EyeTV Hybrid, which costs about $150 -- I found it for $128, and it comes with EyeTV for the Mac, which is an excellent program. I bought an HDTV set of rabbit ears -- you young kids might not know what that is -- and it works beautifully here in the L.A. area. Also, it works well as a TiVo, and it contains an editor to cut out ads. Then you click the Toast icon, or the iPod icon, and the conversion is done on the run. Contrary to what the CNet result is, I get generally great results from HD, but the analog channels are kind of snowy. Since I dropped paying for cable TV at the same time, this has been a great bargain.
- thatbox, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Rob5246, try switching to a codec designed for capturing, such as huffyuv. Far less CPU load. I have no trouble capturing videos to huffyuv in NTSC with my 1600+.
- Sblader5, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Does this have to be used with an antenna? Or can u just hook up a regular cable?
- joerod, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2only for pc.... sux!!!!! the should make a mac with a build in hd tuner.
- yuravian, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1question: is there anything similar to this that I can use tho get HD inputs so i can play Xbox on my laptop screen and actually READ the text in dead rising?
- MateFrio, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I have a DVICO FusionHDTV5 USB that is about the same size if not smaller and costs less. Works great for me and has been out for a couple of years. It also supports cable signals 256QAM.
If they made one of these external HDTV tuners with hardware compression and decompression along with better Linux support that would be news. - op12, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1The OnAir does QAM too, though the linked cnet article only briefly mentioned it at the end: http://www.autumnwave.com/content/view/30/166/
- reddevil3, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Here's a review:
http://www.ehomeupgrade.com/entry/1787/dvico_fusionhdtv5_usb - envy860, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I have one too. Love being able to work and have TV running in the corner. Game mode is nice too. I experience a bit of snowiness also from cable, and have yet to try OTA HD, but will soon. Nice features in a small package.
- Guspaz, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1That assumes you even have OTA HDTV broadcasts available in your area. In Montreal, HDTV is only available via digital cable and satellite, both of which don't work with this tuner.
Until tuners work with encrypted cable and satellite (Read: Never, and we don't have CableCard in Canada, which won't work with satellite anyhow), these things will be useless. The only solution will be an HDTV capture card and a digital cable or satellite TV box. An expensive and very non-portable proposition. - Rob5246, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1That Adaptec tuner sucks, I also bought one and regret it. It uses software based encoding, which is impossible to do on my 1.8GHz Centrino notebook in high quality, and on medium quality it has to be the only application I have running. The software it comes with is terrible, and I have yet to find any other software that supports that tuner.
- Netmindstorm, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3To each their own, but I can say that using an antenna to get HDTV where I live is very reliable. Even heavy rain and snow storms don't seem to impact my ability to receive a signal strong enough to lock on to (I live about 20 and 40 miles from the various transmitting towers) and I live in a very hilly area (no direct LOS to any of the antennas). One thing that I found that makes a big difference in the ATSC tuner "generation". The older tuners that I have are not nearly as sensitive as newer ones. For example, my S3 Tivo and the now defunct zoom satellite receiver/tuner are able to pick up stations from a tower 60+ miles away while my older HDTV with an integrated tuner has had problems locking onto the "40 mile" tower.
FWIW, I'm using a ChannelMaster CM4228 that is mounted in my attic for my OTA reception. - XLmedia, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0We just reviewed the OnAir GT and were able to tune into 25 digital channels, including 7 HD channels. The quality of the HD picture is excellent and you can view screengrabs at http://www.notebooks.com/?p=149
- emacz, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Mmmm.... Guspaz, you CAN get limited OTA HDTV in Montreal... and in most other Canadian cities.
http://www.digitalhome.ca/hdtv/idx/15/409/HDTV_Overviews/article/How_can_I_get_CBC_HD.html - puppetj, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0this is even a better deal for the fusionhdtv-gold-usb ! http://store.snapstream.com/fusionhdtv-gold-usb.html
- muaddib420, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2having used an antenna to get HDTV where i live, i can say that even though it's free, it's unbelievably unreliable. one day you get a perfect signal, the next, you don't for whatever reason.
i ended up getting the time-warner HDTV package. it sux to pay for it, but i'll pay for a good signal (and HD ESPN!). - pooslinger, on 10/12/2007, -5/+2Get an amp.
- archlich, on 10/12/2007, -4/+0I got one with my HP Pavilion, but it only works with windows mce. I have a gut feeling that hp it won't let it be open sourced. But as far as mce goes, it seems better than tivo or mythbox.
- reddevil3, on 10/12/2007, -6/+1I bought an Adaptec TV tuner (non-HD) for only $25 a few weeks ago. It's pretty good, and also allows you to connect consoles to your PC and record your gaming sessions. The only problem is that it can transmit at most 30fps, so 60fps games like Burnout 3 are downsampled to 30fps, and it doesn't look good.
Still, for $25 I got a DVR and its awesome. - himay, on 10/12/2007, -8/+0No digg!
There are (as shown above) a plethora of products that do the same for less money and with less bulk. Said products have been around for more than a year.
This product is not innovative, new, or a particularly good example of its product class.
Next thing you know we'll be seeing Digg articles on "Check out this new filesharing site, Kazaa!" or "This car actually comes with mp3 support!"
CurtisThompson, maybe submit again when you've made it past last year's products. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -16/+5You have a "2" a the end of a LOT of your articles!
- curtissthompson, on 10/12/2007, -20/+7thanks for posting it, I didn't even realize digg published this article, I clicked submit by accident, as I knew it was a dupe, and in a split second followed it up by clicking cancel, thinking it would and had prevented this from submitting to digg in time....but unfortunately i didn't. especially considering another dupe was created beyond this one, as there is a "2" at the end of this page's URL.
Digg the original everyone, bury this submission, thanks! - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -30/+3http://www.digg.com/gadgets/Autumnwave_launches_world_s_first_mobile_HDTV_Tuner
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