Sabrent USB 2.0 TV Tuner/Video Capture Box with Remote Control - TV-USB20
by SABRENT
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Manufacturer: SABRENTPlatform: Windows 2000
Model: TV-USB20
Product features:
- Connect via USB 2.0 to receive TV and capture video on computer
- Television captured at 704x480 (NTSC) resolutions and can be stored in MPEG-1, MPEG-2, or MPEG-4 format
- Audio captured in stereo at 16 bits with either 24 KHz or 48 KHz sampling rate
- Support for personal video recorder (PVR) functions such as time-shifting and pausing live TV
- Remote control included: no need to get off couch to change channel
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Customer Review: This thing is the worst
Summary: 1 Stars
Don't let price fool you. This thing isn't worth even five dollars.
I bought this piece of vomit just to give it a try and because the price seemed so good. I thought the price would mean it was the basic of the basic, but I was very wrong.
Starting off, the box is very misleading. it says you need a free PCI slot inside your computer, when this is not a PCI device, but a USB device. The box also states that it comes with a remote control, the unit itself, the drivers, and instruction manual. There was no instruction manual, and the remote buttons were all wrong. For example, you could hit the "Channel Up" button and it would respond as "Mute" or I could hit "Volume up" and it would respond to one of the number buttons. The remote buttons are all wrong!
So I plug the USB device into the computer I wish to use it with. And blue screen of death, right away. I'm dead serious. I plug it in and it blue screen's the computer right off the bat. I restart that computer and I try it on a different computer. I use the manual way to install the drivers for the device, and it needs a file named "Tridvid.sys" I select the file from the WIndows XP driver file in the CD and IT BLUE SCREEN'S THE COMPUTER AGAIN! WHAT THE HECK!
No matter how many times I try and install the driver, it blue screen's the computer. So I try one of the Windows Vista drivers, and it works fine.
The software they give you is InterVideo WinDVR 3. The software isn't all bad, but I would like more features out of it. With the Windows Vista drivers and WinDVR, you CANNOT select an audio capture source other than the horrible audio capture device that is included with the capture device. And it does give you an audio capture input, and it's awful. The audio device leaves an ominous popping noise in the background, like it's static. Horrible! And you can't select a different audio capture input! I would like to use my computer's input source, but I can't.
The unit has three methods for video input; Coax, composite, and S-Video. The Coax input doesn't work very well, it leaves an ominous high pitch ringing noise in the background. A sound frequency that you cannot hear when you reach a certain age, but I can still hear it. S-Video seems to work fine, great. The composite video input is poor. Video flashes black and flickers.
All in all, this is horrible. You may notice that most video capture devices are very expensive(about 60-80 dollars.) But trust me, it is a good idea to put your hard earned money into one of those expensive capture devices. They will offer much better performance and will in most cases have a digital TV tuner in them. So you can get free HD over the air programming.
Do not buy this though!
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Description of Sabrent USB 2.0 TV Tuner/Video Capture Box with Remote Control - TV-USB20
SABRENT TV-USB20 USB 2.0 TV Tuner/Video Capture Box with Remote Control Watch/record TV your Desktop or Laptop, No external power required! The SABRENT USB2.0 TV Box is the newest TV receiving and video capturing device designed for notebooks and PCs. Capture 704 x 480 (NTSC) resolutions, creating high quality video that can be stored on a PC hard disk via USB 2.0. Users can watch video on the PC, while also capturing video to the hard disk drive of their PC. It also captures stereo audio at 16bits, and at a 24KHz or 48KHz sampling rate. With its A/V synchronization feature, this captures video and audio at the same time. A professional "snap shot" function is also provided. Captured bit stream can be transferred very easily to standard formats, such as MPEG1, MPEG2 and MPEG4 video, for editing and CD burning. This USB 2.0 TV capture box also features a TV/Video Scheduled Recording Function. Specifications Interface: USB 2.0 Only ? Power Consumption: By USB Power (No external power required) ? Hardware Input/Output - Video Input: TV, S-Video, Composite - Coaxial TV Antenna or Cable Input - S-VHS Input - Composite Input - Video Capture Rate: 25 frames/second (PAL), 30 frames/second (NTSC) - TV Standards: NTSC_M, PAL_I/D/B - Video Resolution: 720*576 (PAL), 720*480 (NTSC) - Audio Input: Stereo audio (L) (R) - Stereo/Mono - Dimensions: 13.5cm*8.0cm*3.2cm - Weight: 204g ? Video Adjustable Saturation/Contrast/Hue/Brightness. ? Bandwidth Adaptive Automatically Control. ? Audio Capture & A/V Sync. Function. ? Full channel (supplementary channel contained) scanning, up to 125 TV channels receivable ? Support multi-national languages ? Time-shifting ? Scheduled recording ? Remote controlThe Sabrent TV-USB20 USB 2.0 TV Tuner/Video Capture Box with Remote Control can receive TV and capture video when installed on your notebook or PC.
In its compact and stylishly designed box, you can bring the device with you and have a mobile TV station wherever you are. Television is captured at 704x480 (NTSC) resolutions, creating video that can be stored on a hard disk and can be played back later. Videos can be saved in MPEG-1, MPEG-2, or MPEG-4 format. You can use Personal Video Recorder functions such as time-shifting and pausing live TV.
The device also captures stereo audio at 16 bits with either a 24 Khz or 48 Khz sampling rate. With the A/V sync feature, video and audio can be captured at the same time. An additional feature lets you capture 704x480 still images from a video source.
The Sabrent TV-USB20 features a USB 2.0 interface that provides high bandwidth for video and, for convenience, requires no external power source. S-VHS and composite inputs let you connect DVD players and VCRs.
System Requirements
Windows 2000 SP4 or Windows XP SP2, Pentium III 800 MHz, 64 MB, DirectX 9.0C, USB 2.0 port, CD-ROM or DVD-ROM drive, 500 MB of available hard disk space.
What's in the Box
TV-USB20 USB 2.0 TV tuner/video capture box, remote control, driver CD-ROM, and batteries.
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