Best Digital TV USB stick

mayhem · #1 02-05-10, 05:23 PM

Whats the best Bang for Buck Digital TV USB Stick (that can record Digital TV (areal type) for a Small system with a Intel single core atom.

Its to me used in windows 7 with 2 gb ram and Media Centre. Needs to be easy to use as well.

AMDFTW · #2 02-05-10, 06:22 PM

they are all crap fella,i have had a few and ither i had menu issues or channel scrambling or just over all no reception,i take it you are using a outside arial?

mayhem · #3 02-05-10, 07:49 PM

Yeh we have out side areal. we get a 90 to 95% on all channels as its boosted as well. Big massive areal lol.

AMDFTW · #4 02-05-10, 07:58 PM

then you may be ok fella,but you get what you pay for IMO if it doesnt work you can always take/send it back ither way

just warning you tho

Youngie1337 · #5 04-05-10, 05:30 PM

ZATOO Google it Mayhem

DavidT · #6 04-05-10, 06:40 PM

Be careful purchasing a USB tuner for such an underpowered system.

Most USB TV Tuners don't have an internal MPEG-2 encoder but use software encoding instead. This uses your CPU which takes a LOT of power, something the single core Atom doesn't offer.

The only USB tuner I know of with a dedicated MPEG-2 encoder is the Hauppauge WinTV-HVR-1950. It has fairly decent reviews by the looks of things.

I know most mini Atom systems don't have PCIe slots, but if yours does, I would strongly suggest you get an internal card instead.