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Diamond Multimedia TV Wonder HD 600 TV Tuner Stick

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Diamond Multimedia TV Wonder HD 600 TV Tuner Stick $25 at Woot.com
 
Discuss (11) : History : Tell : Posted 12:58 PM PST 11/4/09 by Ben
Diamond Multimedia TV Wonder HD 600 TV Tuner StickWoot.com has the Diamond Multimedia TV Wonder HD 600 TV Tuner Stick for $20 + $5 shipping = $25 shipped. This device allows you to watch, pause or schedule recordings of your favorite TV programs. [Compare]
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#1   nashvilleNINJA - Posted 1:15 pm PST 11/4/09 (275 Posts)
Is this any good? I never understood how to watch tv on the laptop... Would i need this and some sort of antenna?
#2   durkzilla - Posted 1:29 pm PST 11/4/09 (605 Posts)
It comes with an antenna. To watch TV on a computer you need a piece of hardware that receives the signal and a program that takes the signal and displays it on your screen. Most TV Tuners can either be plugged in to an antenna or you can plug your cable TV into it (depending on your cable provider, of course, this won't work with FiOS).

Go read the forum posts at Woot! Somebody usually has one or is familiar with the product and can provide more details.
#3   nashvilleNINJA - Posted 1:40 pm PST 11/4/09 (275 Posts)
Thanks #2 it just that my home tv don't work well ever since all the networks went digital on me!
#4   btc909 - Posted 2:24 pm PST 11/4/09 (1091 Posts)
The antenna is junk, pick up a decent one from Monoprice. Otherwise good reviews on Newegg. This is the 600 model without the analog tuner. The 650 has both tuners but the analog tuner is worthless as of 2009 anyways. You can also capture video via composite & s-video. If you have one of the Dazzle USB capture devices this can replace it.

No this doesn't support QAM but most QAM digital feeds are encrypted anyways making this support worthless.
#5   htt - Posted 3:11 pm PST 11/4/09 (79 Posts)
This is POS. I had it worked at first installation. For a reason I don't remember I had to uninstall it and reinstalled again. It then could not see the tuner; the OS see the tuner but the CatalystMC doesn't see the tuner. I emailed customer support. They asked me to install it on another PC, it worked on the second PC so they said it was problem with my first PC. Then same thing happend to the second PC when I uninstalled and reinstalled: CatalystMS does not see the tuner. The support people had no clue, had me run tests for them then silence from them.

DON'T BUY THIS POS
#6   gvjam9 - Posted 4:28 pm PST 11/4/09 (66 Posts)
This is Junk. Instead buy Avermedia Avertv Hybrid Volar MAX, much better.
#7   slikkster - Posted 4:51 pm PST 11/4/09 (248 Posts)
25 bucks, dude. You can get the avermedia for that?
#8   kponenation - Posted 6:28 pm PST 11/4/09 (254 Posts)
i'm crossing my fingers and hoping it will surprise me when i get it.
#9   TJ495 - Posted 6:53 pm PST 11/4/09 (19 Posts)
me too
#10   TM0ney - Posted 10:07 am PST 11/5/09 (519 Posts)
Wonder how this would be hooked into a laptop then out via hdmi?
#11   frankl45 - Posted 1:01 pm PST 11/5/09 (646 Posts)
Save your money
 
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