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Is this USB TV Stick any good?
204131 PostPosted: Wed Jan 24, 2007 3:33 pm Thank this member for this postReply with quote
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Hi Folks

Does anyone know if this USB TV Stick is any good, both here and in Europe?

http://www.tvstick.co.uk

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Hi ivys

I don't know but it certainly looks good for the money.... just one tip ..your laptop or PC will need to meet or preferably exceed by a good margin the minimum requirements for any of these sticks to work correctly.

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A Pentium 4 (1.7+ Ghz), or Centrino (1.3+ Ghz) or AMD Athlon (2.0+ Ghz) CPU.
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204153 PostPosted: Wed Jan 24, 2007 5:03 pm Thank this member for this postReply with quote
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Well, I've ordered one. We go to Belgium for a few days on the 1st of Feb, so will let you know how it turns out. I also intend to borrow one of those powered aerials.

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Hi

A chap at work used one and swore by it - I saw it working and it was OK.

Keep us up to date, please.

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Roger-that looks to be a good product and as there's a no quible guarante it seems a "no lse" deal

But- would you have to use an extension antennae lead from the normal tv socket (in my case in a tv cupboard in top of m/home) and connect to laptop? I don't have an aerial connection in lappy so where does it go? Rolling Eyes - I know it comes with an aerial but I unsderstand it's best to link with your normal tv aerial (Status?) Sorry if it's a daft question!
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During the world cup we bought these at work to watch the Footie. They are really good. Used it with the Laptop last year in Denmark, Sweden and have also used it over here (not to record programmes even though it does do this) You plug the USB stick into the Laptop or PC and the Aerial connector is at the end of the USB Stick. Needed an extension to reach our aerial cable socket - couple of quid I think. On our PC's at work we only used the stick on aerial on the window.
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Like any TV apparatus , good reception will be totaslly reliant an a good arial system especially in the van.

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Thanks RS and Bill- do you think the Status 530 is up to it? (The extending one shaped like a delta)
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the 530 is about the best one for a van, dont forgat to get the polarity correct (i.e. horizontal /vertical

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RedSonja wrote:
During the world cup we bought these at work to watch the Footie. They are really good. Used it with the Laptop last year in Denmark, Sweden and have also used it over here (not to record programmes even though it does do this) You plug the US