Diamond Multimedia TV Wonder HD 600 TV Tuner Stick

Buy.com AVerMedia AVerTV ExpressCard Mini TV Tuner $50 Discuss (0)

Buy.com Hauppauge WinTV HVR-1600 TV Tuner $66 Discuss (3)

Newegg MSI Radeon HD 4350 512MB PCI-E Video Card $20 Discuss (0)

Newegg Belkin IEEE 802.11g PCI Wireless G Desktop Card $9 Discuss (0)

Is this any good? I never understood how to watch tv on the laptop... Would i need this and some sort of antenna?

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.

Thanks #2 it just that my home tv don't work well ever since all the networks went digital on me!

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.

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

This is Junk. Instead buy Avermedia Avertv Hybrid Volar MAX, much better.

25 bucks, dude. You can get the avermedia for that?

i'm crossing my fingers and hoping it will surprise me when i get it.

me too

Wonder how this would be hooked into a laptop then out via hdmi?

Save your money

To post comments, please Sign In or Register.       Forgot Password?

Registration takes seconds! Once registered you'll have members only access to a Favorites bookmark list, a fully customizable User Profile, and the ability to instantly add your thoughts to each discussion topic.