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Mygica U6012B Hybrid USB HDTV Tuner, Windows 7 32bit/64bit Media Center Certified, Clear QAM, ATSC TV, FM radio and Video Capture, Free TV Antenna, TV Recording and Home Video Recording All-in-One USB Tuner    
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SKU:  201-114-001
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    Mygica U6012B Hybrid USB HDTV Tuner, Windows 7 32bit/64bit Media Center Certified, Clear QAM, ATSC TV, FM radio and Video Capture, Free TV Antenna, TV Recording and Home Video Recording All-in-One USB Tuner

    Note on Windows 7 Media Center Remote: The remote can be used to control part of the Windows 7 Media Center. you need to install the IR remote software found on the enclosed Disc under D:\TV IR Folder

    ArcSoft TotalMedia 3.5 is a third party Media center software running on XP, Vista, Windows 7 without Windows Media Center.

    Technical Support:

    Read our FAQs on TV Tuners below or email to Support@geniatech.com

    Download

  • Tuner Driver
  • Remote Driver download
  • Software

    • Mygica U6012 HDTV is a Pen size digital/analogue USB TV Stick with Clear QAM Support. The mini and compact design makes every trip of you much more easier and portable! Enjoy ATSC/Analogue TV entertainment whenever you like and wherever you go.

    Features:
    • Advanced TV Application
    • Watch ATSC/Clear QAM/World Wilde Analogue TV on PC
    • Rewind and fast forward live TV shows with Always Time Shifting recording
    • Electronic Program Guide (EPG)
    • Support HDTV Receiving

    • Listen to FM radio in Windows Media center
    • Receive digital radio stations from your PC
    • Automatic station searching
    • Create favorite stations for convenient listening

    • Digital Personal Video Recording
    • Schedule TV recording and save directly to your PC's hard drive

    Specification:

      Tuner

    • Input Terminal: 75 Ohm F Connector
    • Receiving Frequency: TV: 48.25 ~ 863.25 MHz
    • 8VSB/QAM64/QAM256
    • Bandwidth: 6 MHz

      • USB Interface

    • Universal Serial Bus 2.0 Standard

      • De-Multiplexing

    • Max No. Section filtering: 32PIDs
    • Engine: Software
    • Stream capture: PES & TS

      • A/V Format

    • Video Format: MPEG-II Main Profile& Main Level
    • Audio Format: MPEG-II Audio Layer I & II

    System Requirements:

    • Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack2 Vista 32/64 bits
    • P4 1.7GHz CPU or above for SDTV
      P4 2.5GHz CPU or above for HDTV

    • 512M RAM or above for SDTV
      1G RAM or above for HDTV

    • VGA Card with at least 16MB Memory for SDTV
      VGA Card with at least 128MB Memory for HDTV

    • Sound Card or On Board Sound Chip

    • One Free USB 2.0 Port (not compatible with USB1.1)
    • Microsoft Direct X 9.0 or above
      Microsoft Media Player 9.0 or above
    • UHF/VHF Antenna for ATSC Terrestrial and Analog TV
    • CATV Signal for Analog Cable TV and Clear QAM

    Package Includes:

    • Mygica Digital TV Stick with Antenna
    • Infrared Remote Control
    • Mini RF to F connector converter
    • Multifunction AV Cable
    • USB Extension Cable
    • Software CD (Driver and ArcSoft TotalMedia 3.5), the license key is on the top of the CD.

    FAQ of Digital TV Tuner:

    1. Q: What antenna is required?
    A: Although it comes with one, you can use any antenna to connect to this tuner, like regular UHF/VHF antenna. A larger and outdoor antenna is better for signal reception.

    2. Q: How to capture more digital channels with strong signals?
    A: It varies with factors like different brand of antennas, antenna direction and position, PC location and building structures. Pointing antenna to different direction to test the reception and for sure you will get better signals when you have an outdoor antenna or place the indoor antenna near the windows and at higher position.

    3. Q:Will i get 1080i or 720P video through this tuner?
    A: yes. All PC and laptop LCD monitor has higher resolution than 720P.

    4. Q: How many Over the Air HD channels in my area?
    A: Go to antennaweb.org and input your address. You will see all the digital and analog channels available in your area. Another Website is www.titantv.com

    5. Q: What is Clear QAM Cable?
    A: Clear QAM TV channels are digital cable TV channels which are broadcast on cable TV "in the clear". These digital cable TV channels are broadcast in various resolution, like SD or HD.

Return Policy  

    General Return Policy:

    • Return for refund within 30 days
    • Return for replacement within 180 days

     ** Restrictions may apply, please see the General Return Policy.
Warranty Information :
Website:Support@geniatech.com
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Mygica U6012B Hybrid USB HDTV Tuner, Windows 7 32bit/64bit Media Center Certified, Clear QAM, ATSC TV, FM radio and Video Capture, Free TV Antenna, TV Recording and Home Video Recording All-in-One USB Tuner
Mygica U6012B Hybrid USB HDTV Tuner, Windows 7 32bit/64bit Media Center Certified, Clear QAM, ATSC TV, FM radio and Video Capture, Free TV Antenna, TV Recording and Home Video Recording All-in-One USB Tuner
Mygica U6012B Hybrid USB HDTV Tuner, Windows 7 32bit/64bit Media Center Certified, Clear QAM, ATSC TV, FM radio and Video Capture, Free TV Antenna, TV Recording and Home Video Recording All-in-One USB Tuner
Mygica U6012B Hybrid USB HDTV Tuner, Windows 7 32bit/64bit Media Center Certified, Clear QAM, ATSC TV, FM radio and Video Capture, Free TV Antenna, TV Recording and Home Video Recording All-in-One USB Tuner
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Mygica U6012B Hybrid USB HDTV Tuner, Windows 7 32bit/64bit Media Center Certified, Clear QAM, ATSC TV, FM radio and Video Capture, Free TV Antenna, TV Recording and Home Video Recording All-in-One USB Tuner.
Average Review: (3.25 out of 5)  based on 468 ratings.   Total # of Reviews: 468 user reviews.  Write a review

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usb is very handy works well once you get it to install, running windows 7 rc just wouldnt install driver correct untill i manualy pointed it to the driver it needed. remote sensor is built into the usb adaptor so no extra ir receiver needed. exclent picture and even the media software is comparable to the win 7 media center.and the radio is a plus when travling where tv is not avable.
  (246 people found your comment helpful, 159 did not)
james on 8/27/2009
I normally don't write reviews but this one is an exception. This thing really sucks. I have wasted 5-6 hours of my time and still I can't make it work reliably even though I am an experienced techie. The software is so flaky. It freezes the laptop and you can't kill it from task manager. Only option is to restart the PC. My Laptop has Windows Vista(64 bits). Don't buy it if you want peace of mind.
  (246 people found your comment helpful, 159 did not)
Rajesh Pandoh on 8/27/2009
Product works very well. Only does not work with XP media center which would be a plus. Nice reception.
  (246 people found your comment helpful, 159 did not)
Howard on 8/27/2009
doesn't seem to work properly, no qam channels, poor analog signals, fm radio is just static, not sure if it's just my location or the product itself, but I got busy and forgot to return, so I guess I will have to figure out how to best use it, test it further or return to the manufacturer for replacement.
  (246 people found your comment helpful, 159 did not)
Ruslan K on 8/26/2009
Works good/ Good reception
  (246 people found your comment helpful, 164 did not)
R on 7/23/2009
free shipping and it worked well
  (238 people found your comment helpful, 158 did not)
thomas stephen on 10/4/2009
Product is great. Did exactly said it was going to do. Fast shipping!!!
  (232 people found your comment helpful, 156 did not)
Keith Buchanan on 11/17/2009
I bought this sticker for the QAM channels from our cable company. I first installed analog channels and the sticker works fine. Then I installed the digital channels and the program found many digital channels. I turn on the first ditial channel, so far so good. Then I switch to another digtial channels, the program hangs. The problem repeated. So I email the company, I quickly got a response and an updated version. Unfornately, the program still faid the same way. I wrote to the company again, it responded within a day, which is good, but the problem did not resolve. Then he said I got a back one and asked me to contact the ventor to switch a stiker. I am going to do that and will keep you updated.
  (232 people found your comment helpful, 156 did not)
G Chang on 11/10/2009
Good product
  (232 people found your comment helpful, 156 did not)
Andy Higa on 11/9/2009
Meritline.com Verified Buyer
This Item has a lot of feature and I love them all. There's only one problem that I have and that is my IP Security Camera isn't compatible with it unless I need to download a driver or some sort of software for it to function. I get a picture, but when I try to capture or record it doesn't recognize the device.
  (225 people found your comment helpful, 155 did not)
Andre Wyatt on 12/16/2009
Meritline.com Verified Buyer
It was okay
  (221 people found your comment helpful, 154 did not)
Mike Rodriguez on 12/21/2009
Meritline.com Verified Buyer
VERY unacceptable. This tuner picked up zero TV stations. My city has half a dozen broadcast stations.
  (213 people found your comment helpful, 147 did not)
Steve Cline on 12/28/2009
Meritline.com Verified Buyer
This is the worst possible product. I wasted over 8 hrs configuring it. The overseas tech support email responses were prompt but had poor English and kept repeating same steps. Eventually returned it back to store.
  (212 people found your comment helpful, 147 did not)
san barve on 1/5/2010
Meritline.com Verified Buyer
GOOD
  (206 people found your comment helpful, 139 did not)
AHMED ABUBAKER on 1/20/2010
Meritline.com Verified Buyer
Easy to set up, receives plenty of digital channels. I plugged in my cable antenna with which I receive about 30 channels of very basic cable on my tv. With this in the laptop, I received about 70 channels, generally good reception but it takes a LOT of memory and a fast processor, otherwise the picture freezes constantly. I have 2gb RAM and I think you should really have 4gb tor tv and other tasks simultaneously. BTW, the arcsoft and total media software for this little thing takes over one Gigabite of your HD memory. Having a radio tuner is a real plus, stations come in very clear. I find the remote useless, simply does not work, tech support was not helpful with this. Also, the channels file is saved with some obscure file extension that you cannot convert to a printable file. So I had to make a handwritten list. The process for deleting channels is tedious. The printing of files to DVD is very easy, but again, you cannot save a tv program directly to dvd, you have to save it to t
  (206 people found your comment helpful, 139 did not)
Annelies Rainer on 1/16/2010
Meritline.com Verified Buyer
The Mygica Hybrid USB TV Tuner Stick works better than any of my other three USB TV adapters. It picks up more stations and the HD stations come in better (smoother). The item was received in an acceptable amount of time and works better than expected. I recommend this device, and the seller, to others.
  (206 people found your comment helpful, 139 did not)
LOUIS R SHERWOOD JR on 1/15/2010
Meritline.com Verified Buyer
I can not make it work on the win 7 64, I plug the USB TV Tuner Stick into the USB port, the machine does not response. I tried to use all the USB ports, event USB extension. if it works, it should be good value. All my other USB devices, such as wireless card, drivers,and cameras, work well. since I discarded the package, I do not know if I can return it.
  (206 people found your comment helpful, 139 did not)
wenchao wang on 1/15/2010
Meritline.com Verified Buyer
qam doesn't work
  (206 people found your comment helpful, 139 did not)
jose rojas on 1/15/2010
Meritline.com Verified Buyer
Shipped quickly and it was very easy to setup. It didn't catch many channels at my place but when I tried it at a friend's place, the results were very good. I am thinking of getting an outdoor antenna. Overall I would recommend this product.
  (204 people found your comment helpful, 139 did not)
Imran on 1/24/2010
Meritline.com Verified Buyer
Doesn't work.
  (201 people found your comment helpful, 136 did not)
Jay Meisner on 2/6/2010
Meritline.com Verified Buyer
not to good
  (201 people found your comment helpful, 136 did not)
John Fara on 2/6/2010
Meritline.com Verified Buyer
I'm sorry to say that this Mygica Hybrid USB TV Tuner Stick is a piece of junk. I didn't try it until a couple of weeks later after I received it and therefore I couldn't return it. I definitely would have. My money doesn't grow on trees. This item doens't get any reception. It doesn't do it's job. Maybe that's why they were "giving it away cheaply" in their opinion.
  (201 people found your comment helpful, 136 did not)
HILLARY MATZA on 2/6/2010
Meritline.com Verified Buyer
Seems to be a good tuner. However, on my fairly old PC (3GHz Pentium 4, 2GB memory) running Windows XP picture often freezes and software crashes. I've used only CQAM mode, quality of picture is quite good. It may work hopefully better under Windows Media Center or Windows 7, it seems that included software, not the hardware, has problems.
  (201 people found your comment helpful, 136 did not)
Anushavan Atanasian on 2/6/2010
Meritline.com Verified Buyer
Good value for price
  (201 people found your comment helpful, 136 did not)
Gary Lawson on 2/6/2010
Meritline.com Verified Buyer
Doesn't work at all north of Tucson, AZ
  (201 people found your comment helpful, 136 did not)
Thomas Barrett on 2/6/2010
Meritline.com Verified Buyer
Works great, ridiculously cheap! Very satisfied!
  (201 people found your comment helpful, 136 did not)
John Kais on 2/6/2010
Meritline.com Verified Buyer
amazing dtv reception with just the included antenna. excellent picture quality. incredible value for the price. thanks!
  (201 people found your comment helpful, 136 did not)
Tony Jordan on 2/6/2010
Meritline.com Verified Buyer
The unit works ok, but there is a 60 Hz hum in the audio system with the unit installed. The cable is not connected directly to the computer under normal operating conditions but connects to the cable modem which is not grounded to the computer chassis. With the Mygica Tuner in-line the cable is adversely grounded to the computer chassis through the usb cable producing a ground loop which would otherwise not exist resulting in a quite noticeable 60 Hz noise in the computer audio system, which to me is unacceptable. If the grounding problem were to be remedied it would have acceptable operation.
  (201 people found your comment helpful, 136 did not)
John W Travis Jr on 2/6/2010
Meritline.com Verified Buyer
did not use yet
  (201 people found your comment helpful, 136 did not)
Noel Moss on 2/6/2010
Meritline.com Verified Buyer
bought 2 different tv tuners to put on my vista computers 1 is very grainy picture the other one did not even work its a 50/50 chance on vista
  (201 people found your comment helpful, 136 did not)
samuel hurtado on 2/6/2010
Meritline.com Verified Buyer
Meritline consistently offers the best prices on the products they sell. The Mygica Hybrid USB TV Tuner Stick is no exception. Being a USB device makes it easy to use on multiple computers. I had no trouble with the installation, and it worked the first time I plugged it in after installing the software. The HD pictures are better than the cable company's offerings. If you are looking for a low-cost way to view HD signals on your laptop, you won't go wrong using the Mygica Hybrid TV Tuner.
  (201 people found your comment helpful, 136 did not)
Scott Holder on 2/6/2010
Meritline.com Verified Buyer
Sorry I wasted money on this. Would not work, no matter what I tried. I am no noob. This thing is a waste of time and money. Serves me right for trying to go cheap
  (201 people found your comment helpful, 136 did not)
David W Strohman on 2/6/2010
Meritline.com Verified Buyer
The included little antena could not pick up any signal. In addition, the usb connector was loose when connecting to the computer's usb port.
  (201 people found your comment helpful, 136 did not)
HOWIE TRAN on 2/6/2010
Meritline.com Verified Buyer
infrared control did not work well(buttons were jumpy, not sure if this was a software issue with the IR driver or faulty hardware), but everything else worked fine. TV doesn't seem to be able to pull in some channels that my other TV can, though both are hooked up to the same outdoor antenna.
  (201 people found your comment helpful, 136 did not)
grant menefee on 2/6/2010
Meritline.com Verified Buyer
Good Product.
  (201 people found your comment helpful, 136 did not)
Thomas Manard on 2/6/2010
Meritline.com Verified Buyer
I received the USB Tuner in a quick manner. However, I finally went to use it and had a hard time getting it to work. I followed the instructions for Windows 7 and had it loaded on the computer. I had a signal for a little bit and when went back to try again it didn't recognize the tuner. I ended up taking it off.
  (201 people found your comment helpful, 136 did not)
Freddie Krenk on 2/3/2010
Meritline.com Verified Buyer
This tuner works for win7 (you need download driver from the manufacture's web). The picture is clear. A big problem for me is the usb connector is not stable.
  (201 people found your comment helpful, 136 did not)
Jie Kong on 2/2/2010
Meritline.com Verified Buyer
processed and received quickly!
  (200 people found your comment helpful, 136 did not)
Benjamin Yee on 2/7/2010
Meritline.com Verified Buyer
The tuner gets great reception, even with the little antenna enclosed, and everything is pretty cool, except that the record timers are iffy. but for the price this is a great deal
  (200 people found your comment helpful, 136 did not)
Pedro Cabrera on 2/7/2010
Meritline.com Verified Buyer
Powered USB is needed to work properly. The USB extender does not work for me. Tried in two Dell desktops using USB in the back. May get warm after period of use.
  (200 people found your comment helpful, 136 did not)
Kevin Sauer on 2/7/2010
Meritline.com Verified Buyer
I bought the tuner for the RCA jacks and the ability to record VCR tapes to external storage drives but had trouble with copy righted content ,,,this makes it hard to save my VHS tapes to another source ,,,,,,But the tuner works fine the software is not good. It is pretty but not very user friendly ...I will shop Meritline.com Again thank you
  (200 people found your comment helpful, 136 did not)
Robert R Houston on 2/7/2010
Meritline.com Verified Buyer
Very poor picture quality. I would return it, but it took more than 30 days for me to install and evauate it.
  (200 people found your comment helpful, 136 did not)
Douglas Bieniek on 2/7/2010
Meritline.com Verified Buyer
Neat little product but it keeps freezing up my Windows XP. JC
  (200 people found your comment helpful, 136 did not)
James Chasse on 2/7/2010
Meritline.com Verified Buyer
Softwear locked up computer - not able to use
  (200 people found your comment helpful, 136 did not)
Paul Mitchell on 2/7/2010
Meritline.com Verified Buyer
It is a piece of crap. Tried many times on Windows Vista. Worked, got Channels with an outdoor antenna, but all the channels had snowy picture and picture quality was bad. Whereas I get HD picture quality when I connect the antenna directly to my HD TV
  (200 people found your comment helpful, 136 did not)
Steve Gyani on 2/7/2010
Meritline.com Verified Buyer
The price was cheap! But so was the quality! Would not buy it again.
  (200 people found your comment helpful, 136 did not)
Steve McIntosh on 2/7/2010
Meritline.com Verified Buyer
This product is useless to me. I could not lock on too any useful signals. Every time I unplugged it I had to rerun the software. This was a waste of time and money. I tried it with the antenna and with my cable wire
  (200 people found your comment helpful, 136 did not)
James McCarthy on 2/7/2010
Meritline.com Verified Buyer
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  (200 people found your comment helpful, 136 did not)
Terry Wooldridge on 2/7/2010
Meritline.com Verified Buyer
Product arrived quickly and properly wrapped. No problems.
  (200 people found your comment helpful, 136 did not)
G R Renner on 2/7/2010
Meritline.com Verified Buyer
Works well, I'm real pleased.
  (200 people found your comment helpful, 136 did not)
dick baxter on 2/7/2010
Meritline.com Verified Buyer
Meritline's service was great, but this product is nearly worthless. The instruction are so sketchy (and so horribly translated) as to be nearly incomprehensible. Setup was very confusing, and I'm somewhat experienced with tweaking my computer setup. On one of my computers I couldn't get the driver to work at all; on another it worked, but couldn't be configured to receive any channels. Altogether, a total waste of money.
  (200 people found your comment helpful, 136 did not)
Brian Porter-Szucs on 2/7/2010
Meritline.com Verified Buyer
Somewhat cumbersome to use.
  (200 people found your comment helpful, 136 did not)
James Hajduk on 2/7/2010
Meritline.com Verified Buyer
In my opinion this product is junk but at least it was inexpensive. I no longer use the product and packed everything away. If you want to refund my $30 purchase price, I would be happy to return the Mygica. I am very experienced with PCs and spent hours trying to get this working. The QAM feature (which is why I purchased the unit) never would work and the software consistently bombed on installation. I finally tried setup for over the air high def and this did work but I wanted QAM. The Mygica tech support is minimal and said to install updated drivers and a later version of ArcSoft. When these did not solve my problem, they said it was "my system" which is hogwash. The driver/ArcSoft combination is not optimized for the hardware. I finally bought a Hauppauge WinTv-HVR stick and this installed immediately and works fine. Unfortunately the old maxim of "you get what you pay for" certainly applies here.
  (200 people found your comment helpful, 136 did not)
Frank Vitale on 2/7/2010
Meritline.com Verified Buyer
Arrived quickly from Meritline. Worked for a few weeks and then stopped all together. Meritline replaced the USB stick in a few days, no problem there. It does not see all the Hi Def channels available on my other TV's and the ArcSoft product takes much work to get the "locked" channels out of the mix, after it finds all the channels it no longer shows a lock and this makes it hard to find the working channels in Hi Def. You must try them all.
  (200 people found your comment helpful, 136 did not)
Edward Linderman on 2/7/2010
Meritline.com Verified Buyer
I wouldn't buy it again. Too hard to use. Not user friendly
  (200 people found your comment helpful, 136 did not)
Anton Zirngibl on 2/7/2010
Meritline.com Verified Buyer
This adapter did not work properly on my Vista system. It might work with XP. Too many adapters to get the air signal. Could not pickup more than 3 channels.
  (199 people found your comment helpful, 136 did not)
Lucio Arriaga on 2/8/2010
Meritline.com Verified Buyer
Center pin of the antenna connector will not fit into the (smaller) opening on the TV tuner stick, so "Free Antenna" -- while free -- is useless junk.
  (199 people found your comment helpful, 136 did not)
Michael Magers on 2/8/2010
Meritline.com Verified Buyer
Instructions are hard to follow and incomplete and that was just for the install. Still not sure about the program and how to use it viewing TV, since there are no instructions for that. Still fumbling my way through that. Price was low, but I'd gladly pay more for better and complete instructions.
  (199 people found your comment helpful, 136 did not)
Jim Diehn on 2/8/2010
Meritline.com Verified Buyer
I attached the tuner to my MCE PC and it worked faultlessly. I am using MCE 2005 under XP. I also tryed the Analog side using MCE Win 7. No prolbem. For such a little device it sure works well.
  (199 people found your comment helpful, 136 did not)
James Petrie on 2/7/2010
Meritline.com Verified Buyer
Excellent price and quick delivery. Installation wasn't the easiest due to driver issues in Windows 7. But a good deal, nonetheless.
  (198 people found your comment helpful, 136 did not)
Patrick Joslen on 2/12/2010
Meritline.com Verified Buyer
Works great. I'm using it mon a Windows 7 machine. It is easy to install and upgrade.
  (198 people found your comment helpful, 136 did not)
Andrew Kasinski on 2/10/2010
Meritline.com Verified Buyer
Not much to say. It works as advertised. Haven't tried a CATV hookup yet, but it does just fine with over the air signals.
  (198 people found your comment helpful, 136 did not)
Timothy Gleason on 2/10/2010
Meritline.com Verified Buyer
I was only disappointed that in my attempt to see if i was doing something wrong or there was something wrong with the product, that the only reply i got was to send it back. However the return policy is wonderful....best around, because of that i will continue to purchase things from here.
  (198 people found your comment helpful, 136 did not)
John M. Doyle on 2/9/2010
Meritline.com Verified Buyer
It does not work. The promised software updates for windows 7 were not available. An inquiry made to the software developer went unanswered. I got so sick of playing I did not even ask for my money back. Now I've got to get it off my computer. My advice: stay away from this product.
  (198 people found your comment helpful, 136 did not)
Howard Greene on 2/9/2010
Meritline.com Verified Buyer
The TV tuner stick was useless and could tune no stations, even though at least five digital stations are available from our location. There was no FM either. The link-up with Windows Media Center also did not work. This was with Windows 7 64-bit. I sold the unit for a considerable loss.
  (194 people found your comment helpful, 132 did not)
Robert Hotchkiss on 2/23/2010
Meritline.com Verified Buyer
Works well with cable but antenna was not so great perhaps due to distance to source. Video gets choppy some times on a 2Ghz, dual core notebook with Vista and 4 G Ram. May be due to a subpar video chipset. Does the job for college student for couple hours a week viewing.
  (194 people found your comment helpful, 132 did not)
Philip C on 2/23/2010
Meritline.com Verified Buyer
Poor reception with its tiny antena
  (194 people found your comment helpful, 132 did not)
Mahin Khalili on 2/20/2010
Meritline.com Verified Buyer
IT DOES NOT WORK WITH WINDOWS 7.I DONT EVEN USE IT AS OF NOW
  (193 people found your comment helpful, 131 did not)
KEN MAYNARD on 2/26/2010
Meritline.com Verified Buyer
it doesn`t work for me, it doesnt pick any signal for the TV ,so No comments
  (193 people found your comment helpful, 132 did not)
VIJAI SANKAR S SADASIVAM on 2/26/2010
Meritline.com Verified Buyer
Works as advertised but could use a better antenna.
  (192 people found your comment helpful, 128 did not)
jason chocianowski on 3/8/2010
Meritline.com Verified Buyer
Excellent service & delivery. High processor intensive device. Will not work on old computers.
  (192 people found your comment helpful, 128 did not)
Albert Iosue on 3/8/2010
Meritline.com Verified Buyer
The USB tuner hardware works fine but the software did not work at all (it crashed while scanning for available channels). I had an RMA in place and was preparing to return the product when I found out that I could use Windows 7 Media Center to record HD TVwith the USB tuner.
  (192 people found your comment helpful, 129 did not)
Craig Weeks on 3/2/2010
Meritline.com Verified Buyer
The product works good with xp. However it does not work with 64 bit windows 7. If you are using windows7 64 bit, then look something else.
  (192 people found your comment helpful, 129 did not)
Vaibhav Agrawal on 2/27/2010
Meritline.com Verified Buyer
Exactly as described, ship time OK
  (192 people found your comment helpful, 130 did not)
John Murray on 2/27/2010
Meritline.com Verified Buyer
This product works very well...
  (190 people found your comment helpful, 127 did not)
Narahari Kadlaskar on 3/15/2010
Meritline.com Verified Buyer
Works great, I am using with Windows7 and happy with the performance.
  (190 people found your comment helpful, 127 did not)
Kenneth R Williams on 3/14/2010
Meritline.com Verified Buyer
Works pretty good but sometimes it causes my computer to freeze
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Delbert Thomas on 3/12/2010
Meritline.com Verified Buyer
Works well. Antenna not the greatest, but I have not found a good one yet. I recommend to get one. Great picture and DVR cababilities.
  (189 people found your comment helpful, 125 did not)
ROGER PERRY on 3/23/2010
Meritline.com Verified Buyer
The product works as intended.
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Shane Fox on 3/21/2010
Meritline.com Verified Buyer
Works in both Windows 7 with media center and in XP using the enclosed TotalMedia. With its low price, I see no reason not to get it considering other compatible products cost a lot more.
  (189 people found your comment helpful, 125 did not)
Sho on 3/21/2010
Meritline.com Verified Buyer
The tuner does not work at all or defective. I Emailed to customer service and they don't respond the email.
  (189 people found your comment helpful, 125 did not)
eric PHUONG on 3/20/2010
Meritline.com Verified Buyer
Works very well with Media Center - I have not tried the Arcsoft - it does run hot and to get a decent signal in my area, I have to use an old set of rabbit ears. I've watched the Olympics and Survivor in HD for the first time (for me) and it was an excellent experience. Using Windows 7 / 64 Bit AMD
  (189 people found your comment helpful, 126 did not)
Mark Pflaging on 3/20/2010
Meritline.com Verified Buyer
The product is a very nice idea but the supplied software never worked with my new PCs (XP and Vista) but strangely the TV and the video capture works with my 6-7 year old laptop with Pentium M and XP--go figure. Unfortunately my old laptop has small hard drive so I can't use this product for my purposes. I would not recommend the product because of the bad software (Arcsoft Total Media 3.5) included. I have another analog tuner/video capture from Pinnacle and I am very pleased with it.
  (188 people found your comment helpful, 123 did not)
DA on 3/26/2010
Aside from the remote, this uses exactly the same hardware as the more expensive DIAMOND ATI Theater HD 750 TVW750USB. I use this in conjunction with a Diamond ATI HD 600 TVW600USB a for dual-usb-tuner setup in Windows 7 Media Center using a large over-the-air antenna and a cable splitter. I find the Mygica U6012A to be just as reliable as the ATI-branded 600 edition. I recommend using this with cable or a large over-the-air antenna. The antenna included is too small to be affective in most locations. Note: To install this in Windows 7, you will need to update the driver manually within the windows device manager. If you don't know how to do that, you may want to learn before buying this.
  (187 people found your comment helpful, 123 did not)
Technosquid on 3/26/2010
Meritline.com Verified Buyer
this item fell apart. I do not recommend it at any price.
  (169 people found your comment helpful, 115 did not)
Sidney Malnick on 4/9/2010
Meritline.com Verified Buyer
Awesome picture, good sound and it is a 3 in one... A DTV, radio and a capture device! I am going to buy two more! Evert computer or laptop you have should not be without this awesome device!!!
  (169 people found your comment helpful, 117 did not)
David P. on 4/4/2010
Meritline.com Verified Buyer
Easy setup. Works like a charm. Excellent reception. Very pleased!! Glad I found Meritline.com. I will surely purchase from them again.
  (167 people found your comment helpful, 115 did not)
Ed Gabel on 4/10/2010
Meritline.com Verified Buyer
This is the worst product I have ever seen and I have wasted a lot of my time by configuring and waiting to get scanning and scanning... the channels but never displays any scanned channel. I will never and ever recommend this product to any one. Sorry to write such a review but Manufacturerr has to QA it and test it before they sell it. I'm goining to return this product. Customer
  (165 people found your comment helpful, 110 did not)
sudarshan v on 4/13/2010
Meritline.com Verified Buyer
AAA+++ product. works as expected. Highly recommend to anyone.
  (165 people found your comment helpful, 111 did not)
Jerry Faulkner on 4/12/2010
Meritline.com Verified Buyer
Dead out of the box. Could not receive any channels even with trying another antenna.
  (161 people found your comment helpful, 106 did not)
Charles Dewar on 4/24/2010
Meritline.com Verified Buyer
Did not work for me. Went to the .cn website and downloaded latest bundle for Win7. Once in a while I was able to see 2 stations on the Comcast feed, but generally it showed 30+ stations, all locked. Useless.
  (161 people found your comment helpful, 106 did not)
Randy Lee on 4/24/2010
Meritline.com Verified Buyer
I am disppointed at the product as it does not capture a home video, keeps coming back that it is copyrighted material. Reaching the ArcSoft TotalMedia technical support is useless. I hope Mygica looks or provides an alternate software that will work with this adapter.
  (161 people found your comment helpful, 106 did not)
Raj Kedda on 4/23/2010
Meritline.com Verified Buyer
Quality of delivery excellent : Excellent Quality of product: getting 10 channels with good reception quality: Excellent Customer service: the small adapter connecting the antenna and the USB stick was missing. Instant response on reporting and got the missing part in no time: Excellent I love meritline.
  (160 people found your comment helpful, 106 did not)
Kunal Kar on 4/25/2010
Meritline.com Verified Buyer
I finally got Clear QAM on a new cable system recently installed. The U6012A drivers loaded fine but regardless of the operating system (W7 and XP 32-bit) the Software kept failing to work properly. When looking for channels it would proceed to a certain point then fail. The failure was not recoverable. It was a .dll file causing the problem. I tried everything including setting it up on three other computers with the same result. There are no updates on the ArcSoft site so no way of fixing the problem. In fairness I have not called Meritline tech support or Arcsoft yet. Perhaps there is a cure, but until then I suggest this is one product to steer clear of. One of the very few I have been dissatisfied with from Meritline.
  (160 people found your comment helpful, 106 did not)
JoeGizmo on 4/24/2010
Meritline.com Verified Buyer
I've yet to get it to work as a TV. It works fine with the other inputs.
  (159 people found your comment helpful, 102 did not)
Andrew Lindsay on 4/29/2010
Meritline.com Verified Buyer
It works great no that I found the piece that connects the antenna to the usb device. I can record american idol and nfl football without paying Comcast cable 125 bucks a month for a box, which was my goal. Is it perfect? no. Is it better than paying the man? absolutely.
  (159 people found your comment helpful, 106 did not)
Charles Smith on 4/25/2010
Meritline.com Verified Buyer
Great product
  (158 people found your comment helpful, 102 did not)
Edith Kirby on 4/30/2010
Meritline.com Verified Buyer
This little thing is mostly a software driven device. Defiantly need a computer with some performance to run this. Fast processor, plenty of memory, and very good graphics capability. It does have good signal sensitivity just make sure you have a machine that can run it.
  (156 people found your comment helpful, 95 did not)
Charles Hartline on 5/3/2010
Meritline.com Verified Buyer
Previously reviewed. Item had to be returned for credit. It is a good product if YOU CAN GET IT TO WORK ON THE FIRST TRY. If not, send it back, because customer support is non-existent if you need help to set it up.
  (155 people found your comment helpful, 95 did not)
Alex Navarro on 5/8/2010
Meritline.com Verified Buyer
Thanks a lot!
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Trung Vo on 5/7/2010
Meritline.com Verified Buyer
It was poorly assembled (internally). The soldering was done poorly, which caused the cable connector to break off of the circuit board. Due to your confusing return policy, I just re-soldered the unit myself and hope it works.
  (155 people found your comment helpful, 95 did not)
Kurt Wilson on 5/7/2010
Meritline.com Verified Buyer
VERY NICE , WORKS WELL, I INSTALLED TDE DRIVER ON 3 COMPUTER3 2 WITH XP OS AND ONE WITH WIN7 STARTER (NETBOOK). THEY ALL WORKED WELL.
  (155 people found your comment helpful, 95 did not)
REZA ARJMAND on 5/7/2010
Meritline.com Verified Buyer
neither product nor software works. Returned and my shipping expense.
  (155 people found your comment helpful, 95 did not)
Richard Lipsig on 5/7/2010
Meritline.com Verified Buyer
The product works great and can view TV programs in the air and through the cables. Although can receive radio program. It is great for travel companion while bright one notebook computer. The only cons is that the guys has relative high requirement of hardware. Other I will put 5 instead of 4.
  (154 people found your comment helpful, 95 did not)
noName on 5/10/2010
Meritline.com Verified Buyer
works great... 7 x64 Media center. Compared to the first USB ATSC tuner, the gain seems to be lower. Both using the same antenna.
  (152 people found your comment helpful, 95 did not)
Ben on 5/16/2010
Meritline.com Verified Buyer
This is a crap which doesn't work. Don't waste your money.
  (152 people found your comment helpful, 95 did not)
Jiejun Kong on 5/16/2010
Meritline.com Verified Buyer
Performs as advertised
  (152 people found your comment helpful, 95 did not)
Robert Parrin on 5/16/2010
Meritline.com Verified Buyer
Works pretty easy right out of the box. Not getting quite as many channels as my older ATI PCI card, though.
  (152 people found your comment helpful, 95 did not)
Larry Wade III on 5/16/2010
Meritline.com Verified Buyer
Great product...I've bought 3, so far. Great gifts for kids and grandkids.
  (152 people found your comment helpful, 95 did not)
dick baxter on 5/15/2010
Meritline.com Verified Buyer
Cannot get it to work on on my netbook with Windows XP, the software that came with it keeps locking up.
  (152 people found your comment helpful, 95 did not)
Anthony Butcher on 5/15/2010
Meritline.com Verified Buyer
Works perfect
  (152 people found your comment helpful, 95 did not)
eric fernald on 5/15/2010
Meritline.com Verified Buyer
This is a great tuner for the price. Comes with everything you need to watch tv on PC. Tuner with Win 7 Media Center works perfectly. The remote and tuner card are great quality, however, consider buying a bigger antenna if you want more and better quality channels. The antenna included is pocket sized and is not very effective.
  (152 people found your comment helpful, 95 did not)
Donald Watz on 5/14/2010
Meritline.com Verified Buyer
you guys have some great products at great prices it took me a little while to figure out the tuner but it works great
  (152 people found your comment helpful, 95 did not)
Benjamin Selle on 5/14/2010
Meritline.com Verified Buyer
I use this for watching movies on my TV from my laptop. We rented a movie from amazon.com and watched it with this device and it worked perfectly. I still have a regular TV but I like the option to be able to use it on an hdtv when I get one. I had some problems at first but after I configured windows to the right screen size and color settings it worked perfectly.
  (150 people found your comment helpful, 91 did not)
Jim Brown on 5/31/2010
Meritline.com Verified Buyer
Not that impressed. If you live in a larger city where the over the air HD signal is strong it might work fine. I guess the signal strength in my area just isn't strong enough. FM tuner worked but was a hassel to get set up and fixed. I have Cableone for my tv and hooked it up directly to the line. Got a few channels but most either didn't come in at all or would but if i changed the channel away I couldn't get it back. Passed my return time so gotta keep it. Hopefully it'll work sometime in the future for me.
  (150 people found your comment helpful, 91 did not)
Joel Wurgler on 5/30/2010
Meritline.com Verified Buyer
Very clear HDTV image. Works excellently in Windows Media Center. There is a slight 1 sec delay between the live signal and the HDTV stream (as compared to a regular TV). IR remote works very nicely, and does not require perfect line of sight either. Driver install was a bit difficult in Win7 x64. Required fiddling with the Device Manager to get it to work. Bundled Arcsoft software adds a lot of extra files and codecs to the system, not recommended. However, drivers are DirectShow compatible so works in any DirectShow media player, such as Media Player Classic. SVHS/Composite conversion output is acceptable, but not great. However, there is a half second delay in the conversion output, even though my CPU was not maxed out. This makes it difficult to play certain console games using your monitor as a screen.
  (150 people found your comment helpful, 91 did not)
Guang Zhang on 5/30/2010
Meritline.com Verified Buyer
This work great on my sony FW laptop, just need a bigger antenna.
  (150 people found your comment helpful, 92 did not)
quoc chau on 5/29/2010
Meritline.com Verified Buyer
It worked but not as good as I had hoped. The only consistency I'm getting in channels is when I hook up my cable service directly to the unit.
  (150 people found your comment helpful, 92 did not)
Greg Tsujiuchi on 5/29/2010
Meritline.com Verified Buyer
Too complicated and the software is too intrusive on your computer. For just a little more money you can just buy a handheld tv.
  (150 people found your comment helpful, 92 did not)
Frank Mesarick on 5/28/2010
Meritline.com Verified Buyer
I don't have much to say about this product other than "it works". Where I live, I can only pick up 2 HD channels via airwaves and they come in very well with using only the provided mini rabbit ears antenna. A longer antenna would most likely pull in more stations. I intend to split my cable in the basement and run a coax line to this little gizmo. Then I can watch regular cable on my PC while I'm working. One con, the dongle is kind of heavy and shifts a lot in the usb port, sometimes disconnecting the signal. Use a short usb cable and lay the dongle flat on the desk. Then no problems
  (150 people found your comment helpful, 92 did not)
Cevad on 5/28/2010
Meritline.com Verified Buyer
couldn't get it to work with the driver links from the product page in windows 7 ultimate 64(no tv tuner recognized). will try again when i have more patience on another system. at least it was only 20 bucks. :(
  (150 people found your comment helpful, 93 did not)
Paul Kallnischkies on 5/18/2010
Meritline.com Verified Buyer
As advertised,what more needs to be said.
  (150 people found your comment helpful, 94 did not)
Dan Rigdon on 5/18/2010
Meritline.com Verified Buyer
Works great and the price was right....Would highly recommend Meritline.com....
  (147 people found your comment helpful, 85 did not)
Tim Andre on 6/6/2010
Meritline.com Verified Buyer
It works fine. I hook it up my laptop with the cable in my room, and scan. Boom, I got around 50 channels! Even three Encore channels.
  (145 people found your comment helpful, 82 did not)
Kebin Wang on 6/16/2010
Meritline.com Verified Buyer
The tuner was somewhat difficult to install due to lack of required files on the installation disk and poor instructions. I did manage installation after a couple of hours on-line and trial and error. The video quality was so poor that I requested a return for credit from customer credit. Meritline truly shined in this part of the transaction. The response, ease of return, and quickness were better than ANY other return process undertaken. Truly EXLEMPARY customer service. THANKS!
  (145 people found your comment helpful, 82 did not)
Thomas Bates on 6/16/2010
Meritline.com Verified Buyer
Re-writes windows media program on mpeg files....you can see the video but you can't hear the sound. You have to use the program the comes with the unit. Not happy!
  (145 people found your comment helpful, 82 did not)
Vincent Suess on 6/16/2010
Meritline.com Verified Buyer
WOW! Excellent product! Plugged it into my Vista 64 Laptop and hooked an antenna into it and within a few minutes I was watching live TV in my laptop! Bought it for camping! Great idea! Thank You!
  (145 people found your comment helpful, 83 did not)
T Brown on 6/15/2010
Meritline.com Verified Buyer
The tuner was easy to install, it works ok, but it's not easy to use. You have to play with the software to get it to work correctly it is not very intuitive. Video quality is not HD, mediocre at best. $20 who could complain?
  (145 people found your comment helpful, 84 did not)
Glenn Davis on 6/15/2010
Meritline.com Verified Buyer
It never received any channels. Did an A/B with another receiver to make sure it is not my setup that was wrong. Threw it away, as it's not worth returning at this price.
  (145 people found your comment helpful, 84 did not)
Sinan Karahan on 6/15/2010
Meritline.com Verified Buyer
Could not get it to work at all. No TV, no FM, no nothing. Don't waste your money.
  (145 people found your comment helpful, 84 did not)
Whitney Strohmeyer on 6/15/2010
Meritline.com Verified Buyer
It does as it claims, the software seems a little clumsy, and they protect the drivers with an install code like more expensive software, which I find odd for an inexpensive piece of hardware. Nevertheless, it is a good value for the money, it does the job of similar devices that cost 2-3X as much.
  (145 people found your comment helpful, 85 did not)
Jim Boros on 6/12/2010
Meritline.com Verified Buyer
It wouldn't pickup any tv stations inside a building and I'm in a large metroploitan area, it did work fine outside.
  (144 people found your comment helpful, 82 did not)
Michael Murphy on 6/18/2010
Meritline.com Verified Buyer
I use this tuner on my Dell D420 laptop with Windows 7 and it works perfectly.
  (144 people found your comment helpful, 82 did not)
Jim on 6/18/2010
Meritline.com Verified Buyer
had some initial issues installing the product. The product works but not able to get the remote working. The vista media center is not able to recongise the device, i have to use its software to view the TV.
  (144 people found your comment helpful, 82 did not)
Vijay Saini on 6/18/2010
Meritline.com Verified Buyer
Works great with window 7, needs better antenna for stronger reception, overall I'm satisfied.
  (144 people found your comment helpful, 82 did not)
Tony Lam on 6/18/2010
Meritline.com Verified Buyer
weak product
  (144 people found your comment helpful, 82 did not)
RONALD MARTINEZ on 6/18/2010
Meritline.com Verified Buyer
worked "okay" for a couple of weeks then my pc started crashing with the blue screen of death. removed device and problem went away.
  (144 people found your comment helpful, 82 did not)
michael hammel on 6/18/2010
Meritline.com Verified Buyer
I have yet to get this thing to work under Windows 7 x64. I have removed and re-installed the drivers a number of times. I run the TV setup where it searches for channels but it never comes up with anything.
  (144 people found your comment helpful, 82 did not)
Daniel Jarvis on 6/18/2010
Meritline.com Verified Buyer
Junk, it tries to work on my laptop but hasn't quit got what is needed, lots of memory/processing power so maybe a video problem.
  (144 people found your comment helpful, 82 did not)
Rick McKeever on 6/18/2010
Meritline.com Verified Buyer
Didn't install very easy nor work well.
  (144 people found your comment helpful, 82 did not)
Javid Elahi on 6/18/2010
Meritline.com Verified Buyer
Hard to use. Instructions are not clear
  (142 people found your comment helpful, 82 did not)
Ashutosh Kumar on 6/22/2010
Meritline.com Verified Buyer
Mygica U6012A Hybrid USB HDTV Tuner, is an excellent product wen used with windown XP.
  (142 people found your comment helpful, 82 did not)
Carlos Espinosa on 6/22/2010
Meritline.com Verified Buyer
Gets all my locales. Located in basement by the window. Thankyou.
  (142 people found your comment helpful, 82 did not)
Paul King on 6/22/2010
Meritline.com Verified Buyer
EASY TO USE, GREAT VALUE
  (141 people found your comment helpful, 82 did not)
Philip Gregory on 6/25/2010
Meritline.com Verified Buyer
It was pretty hard to get working because my computer could not get a signal. The antennae works when you find the right spot to put it, but it must be by your window. I could not get one channel on my computer, so I just gave up and used the mini antennae for my tv that sits by the window. Now I have a 20 dollar mini antennae and a useless tuner.
  (141 people found your comment helpful, 82 did not)
Ricky Giovanini on 6/24/2010
Meritline.com Verified Buyer
Very easy to use, but would like to see some simple upgrades. You can cut out commercials, but the video has to be burned to disc (not stored on a hard drive) or the commercials re-appear. Would like to see a pause button so a seamless video can be made of several clips without having to use the cut feature. Otherwise, it's a nice, simple program that anyone can figure out.
  (137 people found your comment helpful, 78 did not)
Julie Daigler on 7/13/2010
Meritline.com Verified Buyer
it works but it broke already, be careful screwing and unscrewing the tv cable when connecting it, it can easily break the solders and will break off.
  (135 people found your comment helpful, 78 did not)
jose alcasid on 7/20/2010
Meritline.com Verified Buyer
excellent for tv, but not never worked for FM radio. Only one recording at a time.
  (134 people found your comment helpful, 77 did not)
Bhupendra Patidar on 7/24/2010
Meritline.com Verified Buyer
good product but it's works only usa
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surasak kooptaporn on 7/24/2010
Meritline.com Verified Buyer
im very pleased with your product. it works as adivatrised
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william variel on 7/24/2010
Meritline.com Verified Buyer
Very slow in starting up. I can barely get any channels. Totally not worth the money!
  (134 people found your comment helpful, 77 did not)
long liu on 7/23/2010
Meritline.com Verified Buyer
Doesn't work! Put correct drivers for Windows 7 (32 bit), still didn't work! Customer support no help. Will never buy anything from this site again. Wasted money.
  (134 people found your comment helpful, 78 did not)
Arthur Seidel on 7/21/2010
Meritline.com Verified Buyer
Don't expect good quality or performance. After a few minutes of use image lags signal (overheating perhaps). Quality compared to others (same price range)i've seen is bad. would not recommend for $25+, other options are available for less for same performance & quality.
  (134 people found your comment helpful, 78 did not)
Shain Leonard on 7/20/2010
Meritline.com Verified Buyer
I'm very frustrated. I cannot get it to work. I've tried everything, but to no avail. Would not recommend it. There is no contact number for tech help. I believe it's a waste of time and money.
  (134 people found your comment helpful, 78 did not)
Jose Ruiz on 7/20/2010
Meritline.com Verified Buyer
My brother bought an $80.00 tuner locally and couldn,t get it to work. I loaned him this Mygica and it worked great on the same computer. I may not get it back.
  (134 people found your comment helpful, 78 did not)
Ken Winkler on 7/20/2010
Meritline.com Verified Buyer
Does not work on my Qosmio Laptop. Neither in Windows Media Center nor with the included Software. Always freezes after about 5 seconds. So this thing is useless to me. Strange enough, it would work on my desktop, but that one already has a TV card. If I could, I would return it, but sending this back from Panama costs more than the item is worth.
  (132 people found your comment helpful, 77 did not)
Thomas on 7/25/2010
Meritline.com Verified Buyer
Arrived on time and easy to setup.
  (132 people found your comment helpful, 77 did not)
Chinthaka on 7/25/2010
Meritline.com Verified Buyer
It works great. After installing all the drivers (take a while), it can watch, record, pause HDTV. The video quality is very good. The included antenna is useless and you have to use a regular antenna. The sensor for remote control could be improved.
  (131 people found your comment helpful, 77 did not)
Shimin Luo on 7/26/2010
Meritline.com Verified Buyer
the antenna does not work very good, signal receiveing is weak! May be looking to buy a separate antenna for the purpose of watching TV
  (131 people found your comment helpful, 77 did not)
William Chen on 7/26/2010
Meritline.com Verified Buyer
It took me hours just figure out how it worked. the driver doesn't work with windows 2007 and so you have to down load of the site. Even after I got it hooked up I didn't have some code to run the software it came with. I tried running it with windows media center and got it to work once for 5 min. Then I figure out the thing must have been broken cause the light that comes on when its pluged in kept turning on and off.I couldn't return it because of some stupid code they put on the envelop that I had tossed. it was a complete wast of time and money
  (131 people found your comment helpful, 77 did not)
Josephine Pacheco on 7/25/2010
Meritline.com Verified Buyer
It just didn't work... I like the concept, and I would be willing to try it again if you're willing to send me one again for test purposes. But, at this point I can't recommend it.
  (130 people found your comment helpful, 77 did not)
Craig Carlson-Stevermer on 7/27/2010
Meritline.com Verified Buyer
Installed and works with no problem. No signal strength indication on FM with supplied SW.
  (128 people found your comment helpful, 77 did not)
David Erickson on 7/28/2010
Meritline.com Verified Buyer
Hard to install with Windows 7 and get to work. Media center is not fully compatable.
  (127 people found your comment helpful, 77 did not)
dp on 7/31/2010
Meritline.com Verified Buyer
i havent got to play with it to much, but it appears to be functioning correctly. package came in good shapee. there were no defects with the product. i havent tried it with the antenae, but it does work as expected with cable. it is a good deal for the price i paid. meritline proves to be a hard site to beat when you catch their items on sale. they are definately a good place to purchase items from. happy shopping
  (127 people found your comment helpful, 77 did not)
jeff graham on 7/28/2010
Meritline.com Verified Buyer
The product does not work as expected and I have contacted the customer support to resolve the issue(only Free support available through email, Need to pay for support phone calls :( ) Response to the customer emails are very very slow(4-5 days). My issue is not yet resolved even after 3- 4 weeks. I wish I have not bought this product.
  (125 people found your comment helpful, 74 did not)
Mohandas Gopal on 8/10/2010
Meritline.com Verified Buyer
This product works as advertised with regard to analog TV which is all my cablevision provider allows. All the digital channels require a cable box which is too bad. I did not get any FM reception with the device-- just static but I have no antenna attached. I am using it with windows 7 and media center. The remote works with media center except for the start / stop of media center. It starts the Total Media software instead but I find Media Center a better product at least with Win 7.
  (125 people found your comment helpful, 74 did not)
Joe Price on 8/8/2010
Meritline.com Verified Buyer
It is great except for the FM stations. It worked for a while..busted later. Might simply need tech support for that one. Must come with detailed instructions.
  (124 people found your comment helpful, 74 did not)
Ruben Balingit on 8/14/2010
Meritline.com Verified Buyer
Excellent product; software is not perfect, but I'm still looking for any software that is exactly as I would design it! So much better the USB 2.0 TV box that I had... no comparison. Very sensitive for over the air TV as frequently I am able to get stations of nearly 100 miles away.
  (122 people found your comment helpful, 72 did not)
Irv Woelfle on 8/29/2010
Meritline.com Verified Buyer
The Clear Qam does not work.
  (122 people found your comment helpful, 72 did not)
William Stalnaker on 8/27/2010
Meritline.com Verified Buyer
Works Great on my Acer Netbook!!! I picked up over 30 channels OTA!!! For anyone who wants to install this on a Netbook (no cd/dvd drive) just go to the manufacturers website and download the drivers and software for your specific unit and OS!!! Makes a GREAT ultra-portable HDTV :-)
  (122 people found your comment helpful, 72 did not)
Anonymous on 8/24/2010
Meritline.com Verified Buyer
Works fine on windows7x64. Channel tuning can be a little slow but that's to be expected of a USB tuner.
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HENRY SU on 8/24/2010
Meritline.com Verified Buyer
I'm unable to truly evaluate this product. I live in a 'fringe' area for digital TV reception. I didn't get any stations with an indoor 'rabbit ears' type of antenna. I expected that to happen. A roof antenna might produce a different outcome. I was unable to get signals from my cable company, because they've switched to encoded digital. This was expected, too. So I'm going to test it out while traveling. I'll test it in an area where digital TV signals are stronger.
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Charles Peterson on 8/24/2010
Meritline.com Verified Buyer
It tries to work w/ XP, but the signal is jumbled. Not a fair complaint b/c that's not how it was advertised, but caveat emptor.
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Adam Wilcox on 8/24/2010
Meritline.com Verified Buyer
The tuner didn't work on any of the 3 computers we tried to load it on. One was a brand new Windows 7 with plenty of memory.
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Don Bealer on 8/24/2010
Meritline.com Verified Buyer
Worked as advertised. Cable is a little frustrating -no channel ID's. For the price, good buy.
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Dennis on 9/1/2010
Meritline.com Verified Buyer
Very Ineffectual. The range is extremely short. At the moment I can only receive one TV Station. The Radio section is also very limited. On bad station is all that I can get. It would be better have spent the money on something that works.
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Fred Rust on 9/10/2010
Meritline.com Verified Buyer
love it, works great with windows 7
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Timothy Widders on 9/10/2010
Meritline.com Verified Buyer
the item that I ordered was defective and return it for replacement, but out of stock refunded to me the amount except the shipping I paid to return it. I should get a refund for it since it's defective & you can't replace it
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alvin custodio on 9/7/2010
Meritline.com Verified Buyer
Couldn't get it to work with Windows 7 Media Center. Tried everything.
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Dustin Borklund on 9/7/2010
Meritline.com Verified Buyer
Very good product, no problems at all with it.
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Adrian Flores on 9/6/2010
Meritline.com Verified Buyer
does not work
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Dan Timm on 9/15/2010
Meritline.com Verified Buyer
Sorry could not get it to work. Thanks Anyways
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Terry Morton on 9/17/2010
Meritline.com Verified Buyer
i have tried everything this doesnt work at all.. computer doesnt see it an i think a light should go on an nothing.. havent been able to use this since i bought it...
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Robin Cirino on 9/20/2010
Meritline.com Verified Buyer
The tuner works just as advertized. Loading the software is easy although I haven't determined if the FM radio not working is my fault, software or hardware. It just hasn't found any stations. I need an outside antenae to get local air TV stations although one area of my house gets some. I think this is a really good device and would recommend it.
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Jim Zimmerdahl on 10/3/2010
Meritline.com Verified Buyer
I am generally satisfied with this USB TV Tuner. It works with both Windows media center and ArcSoft but I think the ArcSoft program that came with it is easier to use and provides more functionality. I can recommend this product.
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Terry Shipman on 10/1/2010
Meritline.com Verified Buyer
good price, fast delivery. does what it said.
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Larry Goss on 9/26/2010
Meritline.com Verified Buyer
I love this product. well worth the money. thank you for a top of the line product.
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Adam Lambert on 9/24/2010
Meritline.com Verified Buyer
This product was well received in good conditions. It looks really new and in perfect condition. However, this product doesn't work at all! Perhaps it's because my OS is XP professional not Windows 7!! Other wise, this is a total waste of money!
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MOhamed Ndiaye on 10/18/2010
Meritline.com Verified Buyer
The item I recieved says Certified for Windows Vista. It did not work on when I set it up on my Windows 7 32bit PC.
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Thomas McKay on 10/26/2010
Meritline.com Verified Buyer
was not able to use it, my computer doent detect the usb driver. contact customer support but was not able to solve the problem. i would say this product is a piece of crap.thanks anyway and better luck next time.
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Danny Bautista on 10/23/2010
Meritline.com Verified Buyer
Followed the setup instructions using the included disc. Use with Windows Media Player on Vista. Works amazing with a roof-mounted HD antenna. No problems whatsoever. A great bargain.
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Christopher Killpack on 11/5/2010
Meritline.com Verified Buyer
omg,i bought k world tv tuner,no remote,didnt work with w-7,cost twice as much no remote.This Hybrid works perfect.
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john wheeler on 11/5/2010
Meritline.com Verified Buyer
Worked as described
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ahmad barekzai on 11/5/2010
Meritline.com Verified Buyer
In an area where my tv with HD antenna can pick up many stations, this picked up not much more that ststic. I had a "techie" friend uninstall and try to configure it just to make sure I didn't make any mistakes, and he couldn't get anything either.
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J. S. on 11/5/2010
Meritline.com Verified Buyer
The USB HDTV Tuner works well for my Father In Law, he gets about 40 HD Tv stations and all his favorite radio stations come in good as well. He lives in a big city with many tv & radio stations, and 15-20 miles from the broadcast towers. I hooked up to another pair of rabbit ears off an old tv set, and the Mygica USB Tv Tuner works well with them. Used on Win XP 32bit Sp3.
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Mark on 11/8/2010
Meritline.com Verified Buyer
The tuner installed well and appears to be working fine although I have'nt been able to use it yet. As with all analog tuners it is going to require a converter. Hopefully I can locate a mini type. Should be esp. good for making use of older laptops.
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D R on 11/22/2010
Meritline.com Verified Buyer
I did plug the product and installed the Software once I received it and it was working as a TV tuner. However today was the first time to attempt using this product to convert video tape to a DVD. And eventually is not working. Also it quet working as a TV tuner. Not sure what happen. Thanks
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Edwar Ataalla on 12/5/2010
Meritline.com Verified Buyer
Product was delivered quickly with no problems. The product would not work with Windows 7 media player, but would work with MYGICA software downloaded from their support site. Video from antenna did not work only cable video would work. Video quality was also not good.
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Thomas F Gray on 2/20/2011
Meritline.com Verified Buyer
So far, have been unable to get it to work under Windows 7 nor Linux. Haven't had time to determine what it takes.
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Mark May on 2/18/2011
Meritline.com Verified Buyer
Works great!! Had no problems
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Ken Jones on 2/27/2011
Meritline.com Verified Buyer
Great Product. Fast shipping. Worked as described!
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William Benjamin on 3/29/2011
Meritline.com Verified Buyer
I tried using the TV Tuner today. I took a while but I got it working with the Total Media 3.5 software, but I was not able to get it to work with Windows Media Center. It downloaded the TV channels and then said it didn't recognize any TV tuner. I will have to get more help to make it work. Our PC expert couldn't make it work either.
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Vicki Lauhoff on 4/12/2011
Meritline.com Verified Buyer
its not working.
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JITHIN KOSHY on 4/9/2011
Meritline.com Verified Buyer
I tried 2 units, both units, after few minutes heat up and frozen the video and audio. I had to return for refund.e
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LASZLO DATTLER on 4/23/2011
Meritline.com Verified Buyer
work great on window 7 home pre. and good price
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Jeffrey Subra on 5/8/2011
Meritline.com Verified Buyer
I been satisfy with the Product. Only Issue was, Wasn't compatible with windows 7 and I can't be able to use the Remote control, isn't work, or respond
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Al Santana on 5/3/2011
Meritline.com Verified Buyer
The product works as advertised and satisfied my need. Meritline was expedient in delivery. Thanks.
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Wayne Medearis on 4/30/2011
Meritline.com Verified Buyer
The hardware works well with Windows Media Center as well as the software it comes with. It does not work with Linux. The included antenna is too week to receive stations reliably, but an outboard one improves reception.
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Gregory on 5/20/2011
Meritline.com Verified Buyer
once we found the key code and entered it correctly, we have had no problem using it.
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regina patton on 5/18/2011
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The reception is very weak, Even with my Cable TV hooked to it, it's still not very happy.
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Steven Ferguson on 6/11/2011
Works as advertised. Software & drivers installed without any problem on a dual-core PC running WinXP-SP3 with 4GB RAM. In the SF Bay Area, I'm 32 miles SE of the Sutro transmission tower. The ATSC tuner picked up 18 channels with the included antenna and 56 channels with my attic-mount antenna. Did not try QAM since I don't have cable TV. The FM radio and video capture worked fine. File size for video recording: HDTV = 5.25GB per hour; NTSC capture = 3.4GB per hour. The tuner gets warm during use (117F near the antenna input - don't forget to remove the translucent plastic sheet covering the vents). The included USB extension cable is a nice touch. The remote control is superfluous since it's just as convenient to reach for the mouse. I would trade the remote control for AM-radio capability.
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drplanar on 10/23/2009
I'm pleasantly surprised. I have gotten digital TV antenna type of item before. They have all provided crappy signal with my old Windows Vista desktop. I just tried this unit on my new laptop running Windows 7 64 Bit Home Premium. To my surprise, the signal was strong and the picture quality looks AMAZING on my laptop with HD screen. The set up was a breeze with the included ArcSoft Total Media Software. It was simple to set up with Windows Media Center as well. I prefer Windows Media Center as it provide true full HD screen experience and comes with DVR functions as well. All the digital channels came through brilliantly. Including all those "secret" channels that I do not get at home with DISH Network. Now I can use my laptop and watch TV virtually wherever I go! For those who are having problems running with Vista, I would highly recommend upgrading your OS to Windows 7 and it should run perfectly. I HATE VISTA! Thank you Meritline for providing such a great product at
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Stanluca on 11/10/2009
This tuner does not pick up any digital channels. It will only scan and find the analog broadcast. I have emailed tech support from the geniatech and the update they email me did not make a difference. I borrowed a Happauge USB tuner from a friend and it worked just fine so the problem is not my system. All those five stars must be from people using rabbit ears over the air. I have cable and I wanted to enjoy the QAM but unfortunately you get what you pay for in this case.
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Max on 7/30/2009
Installed the driver, not the Arcsoft and setup on my laptop using Vista and MS Media Center. Scanned for station using the antennae that came with it and all local digital station were detected. Some stations are obviously stronger than others, but reception with the little antennae was as expected. I also use Avermedia HD tuner on another computer, and results are identical. Cannot beat the price, especially if bought on sale. I have always gotten good results with Meritline on shipping. A better antennae would make this a five star in my book.
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Howard on 10/4/2009
After hooking this up to my laptop, I canceled my cable. It is amazing how many free channels are available in HD. The beauty of this product is that I can take this product with me whereever I go. Plug this unit in, scan availble stations if you change geographical locations and watch away.
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Mary on 9/22/2009
I have a Vista Home Pro desktop with 4 gigs of ram and cable TV. First of all the tuner setup will only scan the analog channels. When I select digital channel scan the application freezes and the only way to shut it down is to turn off the computer forcibly . The included Total Media is buggy even after getting the latest version from their support. I tried other media programs and Windows media, nothing works. Very annoying problem with the working analog channels. 9 times out of 10 the picture freezes when I start the program and the only way to try again is by turning the computer on and off. Big headache, disappointing product should be pulled off the shelf by Meritline before they start losing customers as a result.
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LST on 8/25/2009
Had some installation problems, tech support sent me some new drivers and after some fiddling everything worked. Great picture, much better than I was led to believe I'd get from USB.
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Ron on 8/29/2009
works fine on my laptop. Software looks like the MCE. remote is solid.
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Josh on 7/22/2009
with FM and capture function, it is cool
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Hawk on 7/5/2009
TV looks Sharp on my laptop. I don't use the remote often. Mouse is better.
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Sam on 9/21/2009
It works very well, can not expect more when you just pay such $s.
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HD fun on 11/29/2009
Delivery was prompt and product was as expected. I didn't have my hopes up with this off brand but it works like a charm with my Vista 64 Media Center. The ATSC tuner is very sensitive and receives as well with the crummy little rabbit ear antenna included in the package than does my rooftop amplified antenna! The NTSC tuner is a little rough with analog cable, but acceptable. The ARCSoft software also seems to work well, although it will not play well with Media Center when the MCE drivers are loaded (common conflict). The FM tuner seems to work fine as well. All in all, a great tuner for a great price!
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Steve H. on 11/20/2009
This Works, although I rarely use it. I wish it had a 'stay ontop window', so you can browse the internet while watching TV.
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Pat on 10/10/2009
Mygica U6012A Hybrid USB HDTV Tuner - a terrific product at great price (thank you, China slave labor)! Software is attractive & functional. Tested on a dual-core 1.73GHz notebook, with 2GB memory, 160GB hard drive, & Vista Home-Premium. A weaker machine may be overwhelmed. Digital tuner receives & records SD & HD Over-The-Air as Mpeg2 video and up to 5.1 audio. No color, tint, brightness, or volume controls. Subtitles don't show or record. FM tuner receives & records in stereo. Composite & S-Video inputs record SD in stereo. Haven't tried Clear QAM. Record by time/schedule or mouse click. Video & audio quality is excellent -- see ATO broadcast recording snapshots (fullsize): http://www.fileupyours.com/files/302336/MyGica_OTA_SD.png http://www.fileupyours.com/files/302336/MyGica_OTA_HD.png NOTE: 1) You MUST follow the installation instructions EXACTLY. 2) Included mini-antenna is ineffective. Use a full-sized one & change orientation for best reception, per channel.
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aTVguy on 5/13/2011
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doesnt work...!it freezes the pc.we need to restart
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gud guy on 3/2/2011
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Excellent Product. I love it. Throw away the antenna. I hooked up my HD antenna in attic to it and plugged into my HTPC. Sweet deal. Arcsoft software is no brainer to stup compared to Media Center. Works out of the box. Media Center requires a psuedo IR blaster driver to trick into taking the composite input. Remote is perfect. I enjoyed it. 5 stars to Meritline.
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Harshal on 6/21/2010
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From the all over the board reviews it seems like it's a quality issue. I received this unit. Installed the software and the proceeded to spend 3 hours reinstalling, fiddling, and finally giving up. FM stations come in fine for me but TV is is extremely hit/miss. Once I got it semi-working it would freeze when changing channels and then lose channels. The TVmonitor program crashes every time I try to start it and have to restart and mess around with that as well. Possibly works but not gonna pay the shipping back and forth till I get a stick that works.
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Wurgy on 4/23/2010
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The stick is easy to set up and easy to handle, pretty intuitive lay out. It scanned unscrambled digital cable tv channels nicely and recording from online tv schedule is a snap. The problems: you cannot print out a channel line up, no support for the .channel suffix. Deleting channels that are locked is a real tedious job, should be made a lot easier with better software. Next problem, the radio is very weird, I was unable to have a working scan function to lock in available radio channels, it just kept locking in every little increment, even when no channel was there. A waste of time. printing a dvd from recorded materials is easy, as is looking at, editing and saving photos. All in all this is a really good tv stick that could benefit from a software upgrade, especially for the radio function.
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Annelies  Rainer on 12/17/2009
The product is pretty good while receiving the digital channels. And its timeshifting function is good. Never use the FM, but the sound and HDTV is pretty good, so far, satisfied for this product.
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James on 12/5/2009
This product does get all the channels I want, and it works with analog cable as well. The software is easy, but I like Windows7 media center more. Finnally I get the new windows 7 driver and it works well for QAM now. Great work. By this price, what I want more?
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Nick on 11/30/2009
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Works good with laptop and traveling. Comes with Total Media for recording and remote.
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ROGER PERRY on 11/29/2009
Works great, recordings are perfect
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James Hanson on 10/25/2009
Finally got it to work for everything, to install the tuner and configure the Software to work with the tuner is not hard, to capture from external device, go into "Video" section to setup the capture device then everything is ok. The tuner works good, video is very clear as long as the signal is good, the included antenna is ok, got 14 channels from it, switch to a stronger antenna got 28 channels, and that's what I normally got from my own powered antenna, the remote did work, just have to aim directly to the tuner. Window XP sp3 and on board video, Overall I am very please with the purchase for this price point, and Meritline ship it very fast.
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VK on 8/20/2012
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Wow, this receiver is hot! I am using it on the same outdoor antenna on which I have tried several other ATSC tuners, both USB and those built into TVs. This one receives the same stations but they are now stable. None of the previous tuners could hold the stations the way this one does. Markedly and substantially better. This is Definitely a sensitive tuner. None of the other ATSC tuners could achieve this level of stability. Same outdoor antenna, much better reception. The software is stable as well. It installed without issues on my Dell Inspiron E1505 running Windows 7. This is an older laptop that is not even supposed to run Windows 7. I made it Windows 7 and the ArcSoft Total Media 3.5 supplied with the Mygica USB Tuner is running great as well. People have to temper their expectations with over the air free TV. I love it but some people who were raised on cable or satellite are not satisfied. Nonetheless, at Meritline's low price this purchase is a "no brainer". Install it
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Keith on 7/14/2012
Remotes to this unit are JUNK!!!!!!
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Dyerdad on 1/15/2012
I have to chuckle at some of the negative reviews on this dongle. The driver and software link is in the item description. Those who say clear QAM doesn't work needs to understand how to set it up in WMC, you can't just let WMC auto detect your dongle and set it up as a analog adapter, you have to select manually configure then select the clear QAM tuner first manually "then" WMC will ask if you want to add another tuner say yes and then select the analog tuner (you will also be asked for you cable provider), then it will scan (takes 20min) and when done both basic and clear QAM stations will be listed in the guide. I have owned this for almost 3 years and it runs around the clock. I am going to add another to WMC so I can record two shows at once.
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buckeyered on 1/7/2012
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Frequently goes on sale and would be a great deal if clear QAM actually worked, but doesn't find a single channel on Comcast cable, not in Windows Media Center or Arcsoft. I returned and the second one did not work, either. I was finally able to get a refund, so customer service came thru in the end, but do not waste your time if you have Comcast and want to use clear QAM. Analog did work, FWIW.
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Dave on 8/15/2011
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Does not find any clear QAM channels, unit possibly defective. I have 3 other tuners that find many QAM channels. Analog works but I bought this for QAM. Meritline support told me to contact Support@geniatech.com and ignored my return request despite the 30-day return policy stated on the product page. Very BAD!

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Dave on 7/13/2011
This does work on Windows 7. It is an amazing device and well worth buying. Actually it is a steal at meritlines prices.
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Cazzie on 5/3/2011
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Works Great with Cable AND Terrestrial Signals!,...Works GREAT With Windows 7 64bit and Windows Media Center,...Remote arrows only manage to maneuver whatever You want to Highlight,...and press "OK",..so it will still work the volume,..You just have to move "highlighting" to Volume up,..or Down,..and ress "OK",...Also,...it does the "Scrolling" through the Media Center with the Arrows,...and "Escape" returns You back to Last selection,..or Page. Overall Great produck for the Price!,...and a nice set of Cables! (S-Video,Composit,L-R Audio) For Camera or Video Recording from External Source,... which hooks up to the Micro USB Port. Also acts as a DVR!,...GOOD PRODUCT!
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Bryan Weber on 4/25/2011
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The tuner is weak even with an amplified antenna BUT I bought it also for the video input features. Compared to any other universal input (USB Video) this thing is superb. I have been wripping old VHS videos and playing my game consoles and my friend records gamepaly and FM radio! For that I consider the value an amazing buy (just reception is poor).
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Buyer on 4/12/2011
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I like it.Its working fine with window 7 and also the radio is great. I love it. Easy setup and I would recommend this product. Good price
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Abe on 3/19/2011
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I so wanted this to work well. They claim it is Media Edition ready, but not really, as it only partially functions. It works, kind of, but a lot of third party software does not recognize it properly and you do not get full access to all tuning modes. It also took a LOT of time to make it work. Lastly, it is BULKY, and easily pulls out of the USB socket, and damaged one of my USB plugs. I cannot recommend this.
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Owen Rubin on 1/18/2011
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If you are using this device for its TV tuner feature, you will be pleased. The picture quality is outstanding, and the sound is solid. I would not use the supplied antenna for anything other than the radio feature, so use another antenna for TV. The video capture feature leaves a lot to be desired, and produces videos with loud scratchy sound. Basically- great tv tuner, poor video capture.
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J on 12/10/2010
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This thing works great. Easy setup...just be sure to get the latest drivers shown in the product description above. Mine came with ArcSoft Total Media 3.5 which I installed for capturing videos from analog source (ie, and old 'hi8' camcorder). For the price, this thing can't be beat. Only thing missing is a pouch to keep it all in when not in use...it comes with so many attachments I'm bound to lose something.
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Charles Kriner on 11/2/2010
Using Win7 32 bit. I had a problem with the audio driver installing. Searched for the file called auvidongle.inf in the inf folder on the CD and edited the file with notepad. There are three lines with the letters VID_05E1&PID_0040 in them. Copy those three lines, and change the PID part to say PID_0400 rather than 0040 on the three lines. Save the file to a new CD or copy it all to your HD and it should now install. I did not install the application software, just the drivers. Then I used Windows media center and it worked pretty well. Good luck.
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Jim on 10/3/2010
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Worked fine with windows 7 media player. Set up with the included antenna which is small and still picked up about 12 channels. Have not tried it with my dish yet.
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Dawn D. on 9/17/2010
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returned because it didn't work
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Paul McGrath on 9/12/2010
Everything is fine, and I realized that someviews are complianting can not get the channel, actually need dig it out first if your area is near the station, if you are inside the area, then this stick works perfect.
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Robenson on 9/11/2010
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Bad software support. Won't allow me to copy my own VHS tapes. Popup says it's copyrighted (it's not). No workaround according to their support dept.
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peter on 8/27/2010
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For the price, it does everything the more expensive tuners due just as good. Picture quality isn't great, but I haven't tried an HD signal yet, and SDTV never looks great on an HD monitor. All in all, if you want a simple tuner for your PC and don't want to spend $100, this is more than good enough for your applications.
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Nic V on 8/27/2010
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Piece of crap...didnt work..only FM radio worked..lol...wasted lot of time installing and uninstalling drivers but all in vain. Eventually had to return it and had to pay $5 shipping fee from my pocket..please dont buy this product..I was disappointed and would never buy anything from here.
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hms22 on 8/26/2010
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I received the U6012A Hybrid HDTV Tuner in an acceptable amount of time. I didn't realize that it came with not just Cable TV and ATSC/QAM tuners, but as well with an FM Tuner. The Total Media software that it ships with works pretty well, though the intended purpose of the tuner was to be used with Windows Media Center 7, which it worked well with. I highly recommend this to any Windows user out there. I also tried it on my Linux box, but to less success. I expect a functioning driver for it soon though.
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John Truett on 8/24/2010
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This product is awful. Using the ArcSoft software on Windows 7 x64, the video capture feature captured 3 seconds of stuttering video, and then the next 57 seconds were a freeze frame of the video captured in the third second. This should work just fine on my quad core system, but it seems to have an issue capturing video. In Windows Media Center, the antenna didn't pick up any channels, and only one radio station was tuned in. I would say avoid this terrible product and don't waste your time.
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Thomas  Piccirello on 7/28/2010
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I tried pretty hard trying to get this thing to work but it was unable to find any channels. I consider myself a tech savvy; able to build computers from scratch, but can't get this thing to work!
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Duc Phan on 7/27/2010
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Whenever I open TV Tuner application... It gets hanged and Application crashes.. I bought two, thinking it is good. I want to return one.
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Vinu on 7/26/2010
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tuner and antenna work incredibly well for getting over the air broadcasts, and it does an awesome job with QAM cable. Only down side, I simply cannot get the remote to work, which is a big problem if you are trying to record from RCA/SVideo. Still worth the money.
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Jim  Giblin on 7/12/2010
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Don't really use this thing too much because, with the older laptops I have & their 1GB of system memory this tuner hogs WAY too much CPU/memory! CPU usage with the tuner is near 100%. I was hoping that it would be more more useful, but it's now tucked away in my laptop bag, collecting dust :-(
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william  mewes on 7/10/2010
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The included USB extension cable is flacky and caused other USB devices to stop working in 32-bit Windows 7 if other devices are hooked up via a USB hub. Throw that away and buy a separate USB extension cable. Remote: channel changing sometimes is inconsistent--it jumps around to other channels. Total Media Recording: does not record AC3 streams even if available for an HD program. It will only record the stereo stream. Suggest use other PVR software instead.
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hm on 6/18/2010
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Got it to run Over the Air HD, analog cable, and ClearQAM on a P4 M 1.83ghz 1GB laptop with a Raedon X300 64MB Card. It was a fresh install of windows, and the max screen resolution for the machine is 1024x768, but I'm able to watch HDTV without stuttering. Never tested recording capabilities.
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Justin on 5/15/2010
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USB HDTV tuner works well. Good reception except for one station. Video capture works great - hooked VCR to unit and used Media Center to capture tapes and output onto DVDs. ARCSOFT software OK but not great for editing. Would buy again.
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Mark Tassoul on 5/15/2010
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Absolute garbage. Not updated drivers for Win 7 x64 bit. They have links on the website for drivers, but the links are just as dead as their product. Very poor. I should know better than to buy something made in an Asian country. Cheap cheap cheap. Don't even get what you pay for.Waste of time and money.
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Paul on 5/11/2010
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Home-recorded VHS tapes of tv shows will not record in stereo: copy protection kicks in. Scanning grade: C-. Viewing broadcasts: B+. Instructions are nearly useless and in poor English, so set-up and operations are hit-miss.
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Paul MR on 5/8/2010
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Don't waste your money! This thing just doesn't work.
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gsl on 5/7/2010
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good service, good shipping time. the product seems to work well. what i like most is that the remote works with windows media center. output quality is great for hd tv channels, while analog channels are somewhat poor. The signal strength is also somewhat poor. The included antenna is useless. In HD channels viewing mode, channel surfing is slow, kinda pain in the buttt..
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Kaji Lama on 5/7/2010
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If you can afford the PC or laptop it takes for this device to run smoothly, then you can afford to spend $75 -$125 on a handheld HDTV. The antenna will not suffice for most users and the software is flakey, don't trust it.
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Frank on 4/28/2010
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it did not work for windows xp. i tried on 2 different computers
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Matt Chen on 4/25/2010
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This thing is useless. I wanted to copy some 10 year old VHS tapes. The software says that there is Copyrighted Material on them? HOME MOVIES? Second, Windows Media Center does not detect the IR software included with this piece of junk. That means you cannnot use it for your cable or satty box via composite or svhs input. Waste of thirty bucks. BUY a happauge instead. Sent an email to tech support. WORTHLESS response form them too.
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Dylan Fahey on 4/22/2010
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Total Media 3.5 is a crap. That software keeps restarting my PC frequently.
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Andrew??Lwin on 4/16/2010
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The Good: No problems installing drivers for Win7 x64. Works fine with Media Center. The Bad: Poor signal strength. When I plug my antenna into this card I get half as many channels as when I plug same antenna into TV. Also, I couldn't get the remote to work properly.
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Joel  Korkki on 4/12/2010
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If you can install it and get it to work the FIRST time, then it is an excellent product according to most buyers. However, if you can not get it to work on the FIRST try - then send it back or you will become extremely frustrated. Don't expect any help from the manufacturer or think you will be able to talk to a human being to help you set it up. That is non-existant. The best you'll be able to do is to exchange emails for days with someone in China. PS Meritline is excellent in allowing you to return products that do not work on your system. Just make sure you keep all packaging and components intact.
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Alex Navarro on 4/9/2010
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Great device, great price! Buying more. Installed (using the latest drivers found here) on 7 different machines using Windows 7 Ultimate, (both x64 and x32), with no issues. Works very well with Windows Media Center. Also works with AM Cap. Remote did not work. FM Radio is a very nice addition. Install the drivers, then plug in the card, unplug the card, and plug it in again, and all should be good in the device manager.
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Joe Hecht on 4/6/2010
My target is get a tuner for my own while I am working in my room, finnally I find this one, it works well, and I find that the antenna is very powerful, I put it outside my window and it picks all the channel like my another big RCA antenna, amazing, that RCA antenna costs me 29.99$.
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Carol on 2/15/2010
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dose not work do not like it would not recamend it to anyone
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John Randazza on 2/7/2010
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The USB TV Tuner and the remote seem to work fine (I use Windows XP) with the following caveats: Installation/TotalMedia: - Encountered the error 'The device is not available, or is being used by another application' when trying to use the device in TotalMedia. Solution (worked for me): - http://www.freecomforum.com/viewtopic.php?t=1227 - I also removed the folder 'C:\Program Files\Common Files\ArcSoft\MPEG Engine' before running Registry cleaning app. (Some suggested doing this to clear up mpeg decoder compatibility problems). TotalMedia 3.5 crashes: - TotalMedia would freeze if you unplug the USB stick while TotalMedia/TotalMedia Monitor is still running (even if you're not watching TV at the moment). - TotalMedia crashed if you change channels too fast. ATSC OTA Channel Scan/Antenna: Place the included antenna pointing one end close to one side of the wall seems to help pick up signals better for me. USB stick extension cable: Make sure you use a USB v2.
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H Moy on 1/31/2010
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The TV Tunner works fine, a little hot when works for hours. The Total media don't works fine, crash a lot and not very configurable. The antenna don't catch any station, but with cable tv works fine. I work with Windows XP recently installed.
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Andres Vargas on 1/30/2010
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I'm raising my rating a little from yesterday's one star. I found out that I could use Windows Media Center (instead of the included Total Media software) that is included with Windows 7 Home Premium to scan in the channels and make recordings. But it sure took a lot of hours of personal research and debugging to get to that point.
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Craig on 1/29/2010
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The little antenna that comes with the product was not strong enough to pick up more than 3 local hi-def signals. When I connected the USB stick to the CATV cable the Total Media application crashed while scanning for available channels. So I cannot record anything. Tech support in China could not resolve the problem. Windows 7 Home Premium on a HP desktop with 6GB RAM and only a month old.
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Craig on 1/28/2010
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The stick works fine but the software really freeze the PC when I'm making the setup (discovery of channels). The HD channels looks awsome and I can see both digital channels and analog ones. I recomend to this company a better software to be five stars.
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Andres Vargas on 1/11/2010
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Tuner works well for what it is capable of doing. First off, for those complaining of QAM issues, you must have the correct drivers installed for your version of Windows. Windows 7 did not natively support the Clear QAM antenna until I had downloaded the correct drivers. ATSC & NTSC reception works well. Overall, the product did take a while to properly configure, but it does work correctly.
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[mtf] on 1/3/2010
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Probably worth the 30-40, but not much more. REMOTE CONTROL is AWFUL. The IR TV software is always mis-firing and the button presses are never consistent. Aside that, the drivers worked fine on Win7, got it to work with MCE, no problems. I could barely get OTA signals with the included antenna hanging out my window, so I just switched to my rooftop antenna, works excellent.
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grant on 1/3/2010
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I've spent 8 hrs attempting to make this stick work on vista 64 bit. Every possible combination of old or new software driver,u name it. I build and repair computers so my tech level is high. The software is so buggy,it totally freezes my machine. No other software has ever done that. It has to be shut down manually. Waiting to hear from tech support but I'd bet this is going back where it came from.
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ed on 12/29/2009
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TV Tuner works fairly well. The included air antenna didn't work at all but connected to my cable connection. I can view the analog channels but since I don't have HD subscriptions, the digital channels don't work. The ArcSoft TotalMedia 3.5 is difficult to setup under Windows 7. Couldn't get it to keep the channels until I ran it as Administrator. Also it stopped recording programs abruptly when it encountered something it interpretted as Copyright notice. I've uninstalled ArcSoft and started using Windows Media Center. This works much better both for recording and viewing. Overall it is worth the $30 for the tuner
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BJ??Hamilton on 12/28/2009
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When I received the order the Software CD was damaged. I had to go to the support site and download the software.After a week the cable connection broke off the circuit board. I do not reccomend this product.
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Joseph Sgroe on 12/4/2009
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You get what you pay for. Installation on my 64 bit Vista laptop was a hassle; even when I uninstalled the drivers that came with the cd and installed the ones on this website, it still said I had an error with an unidentified component (something with an inf error). I eventually got it working by installing the driver from the mygica website, but then the totalmedia software would freeze. I ended up using the windows media center software and it finally worked. Even with the fix, every time I reconnect the tuner, it reinstalls the unidentified component, but it works.
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dianne on 12/3/2009
your service is 00000000000 i will never byu from you again
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victor on 8/29/2009
fast shipping. I hooked with XP. Works fine. I used my own $1 antenna. Received more than 70 channels. recording results were HD quality. continuously recorded 3.5 hours TV program. the resulted video file was over 16 Gb. all my existing video SW failed to handle such huge file. the tuner has trim and dvd burn sw coming along. i performed trim, but cannot save the trimmed file. eventually i found a way out -- the trimmed file cannot be saved, but can be burned to a dvd. then i got the trimmed file from the burned dvd. very happy with this tiny toy.
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pianomozart2000 on 1/4/2013
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Bought model A680-w7 awhile back and it worked great until if died. Bought this one to replace it and it only receives 1 channel through my comcast cable. The A680 got around 20+ channels in HD. This new one is junk to me.
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LarryL on 12/31/2012
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awsome product. Works on Windows 7 perfectly. The accompanied CD was burned by cdburner and not stamped and was track wasn't closed. I managed to copy the content of CD to Harddisk, the install ran perfectly from harddisk. Accompanied software works perfectly. The Antenna is certainly very weak and you need to buy another antenna (Trek or similar) very happy with product!
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ug on 11/3/2012
I bought this April 2010. I found it again and am trying in on a new laptop and using a good sized magnetic base telescoping antennae from a Axiom 7 inch lcd TV. The single most desirable TV station for me, the local PBS affiliate, only has sporadic reception. It works OK basically, but I need to explore antennae options. I wonder if the models that replace this one have any better performance. I got it with a bunch of other items, but with a discount it may have cost 35 dollars total.
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works! on 10/29/2012
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As with many other reviews, I cannot get it to work with Windows 7 64bit The unit shows up under device manager as an "other device." I have tried every driver I can find for this from meritline and many other websites, and nothing works. It seems like the model identification has changed, so the driver is not compatible. Even when I directly try to "update driver" for the device, pointing it directly to the driver file, it says "no driver for your device found" An email to the tech support help address on meritline got no answer. I have an XP box I'll try it on eventually, but I really wanted it working on my Win 7 media pc
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d on 10/27/2012
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works well with my netbook. have not attempted to record anything yet but will soon. i'm using an artec flat panel antenna from meritline and could'nt be happier.
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jbspe on 7/2/2012
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I have Windows 7 64-bit. I have been using an ezCap capture device that came with Arcsoft Showbiz and I have become a fan of Arcsoft programs. I wanted a USB TV Tuner and opted for the u6012 because of the include Arcsoft Totalmedia 3.5 (TM 3.5) and the added flexibility of being able to use Windows Media Center (WMC). I use antenna input only Included antenna is highly portable but is limited. I bought a set of rabbit ears and I have improved reception at the expense of portability. Excellent on TM 3.5 I thrashed around for a month trying to get it to work on WMC., I was finally successful. Excellent on WMC Some reviews say it works on Windows Media Player (WMP) but I have not figured out how. I cannot get the remote to work consistently; after I had the setup for a week Windows, out of the blue, downloaded an IR driver that worked for awhile but I lost it when I was thrashing around getting it to work on WMC. (Deduct one star) FM tuner works fine on TM 3.5 and WMC. I haven’t t
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swanjame on 2/12/2012
Product has poor ATSC reception. Mygica/Geniatech support is unresponsive to support requests. Buyer beware.
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Matt on 1/26/2012
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The U6012 works better than I expected. WE use it for HD off air reception for recording pgms while we are away. Installation was flawless on Win 7. We are 54Miles from the xmtrs with a good antenna system. Wow, does it work well. Found all TV stations as well as good FM. We do not use the QAM feature. The price is unbelievably inexpensive. My hat is off to Mygica Co., great work of art and everything needed is included. Thanks
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Dale on 1/21/2012
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Despite using all the latest software and drivers provided by geniatech support, picture and sound stutter or drop out every few seconds. A Hauppauge TV tuner in the same computer using the same antenna works without any problems. I either received a defective one or they all do this; either way this item is risky and you should be prepared to pay the return shipping. It took a week more than 30 days for me to reach this conclusion so I'm crossing my fingers that Meritline will still take it back.
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PCBuilder on 1/14/2012
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I was pleasantly surprised with this little TV tuner. I live in a very mountainous area in upstate/rural New York. My nearest digital station is approximately 50 miles or so away. With just the little antenna (and a six foot extension cable I had laying around the house) it instantly pulled in 6 channels in stunning HD. It also pulled every local radio station and more in. Most radio stations clearer than my car stereo. With an outdoor antenna I suppose I would get tons more as my digital tv get from it's outdoor antenna. The av inputs are ok too I guess, Its just a plain old sd signal and nothing to write home about. I guess it would come in handy to transfer old home movies into digital format or to hook up and old video game system to. Over-all I am very impressed at such great quality and ultra low price!
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George Geuger on 1/11/2012
I've been using this little tuner for a year now, and it works great. The integration with Windows 7 Media Center is perfect. For the price, this is a winner. The only reason to pay more, is to get one with dual tuners. I have another PCIx card with dual tuners and that is nice for recording one show and watching another.
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TDC on 1/10/2012
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I've had this running in my HTPC for a few days now. Included antenna only picked up about 2 out of the 30 channels in my area. With a much larger antenna, I get about 20 of those channels. The tuner works, but does not look as good as the built-in tuner on my Vizio HDTV, and only picks up about 2/3 as many channels. FM tuner works, but takes a few seconds to change between stations. The remote control is a joke. The IR receiver picks up signals from my tv remote. For example, when I press volume up on my tv remote, the Mygica tuner reads that as if a "3" was entered, volume down makes it think a "4" was pressed. This means I have to hide the tuner and can't use the included remote. Not a big deal to me, but may be a deal-breaker for others. For the price, it does well, but if you're looking for something you can rely on for all channels you should probably pay 2 or 3 times more.
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Nick on 12/13/2011
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Pro: On Windows 7 it was an easy installation, just install the software first, plug in the USB TV tuner with the provided antenna, and let the software scan for channels. While it did find 2 channels of about 9 digital broadcast able ones, I believe with a stronger antenna that it might be possible. Cons: Keeping a signal seems to be a challenge, but overall the picture was clear. Can be confusing at first trying to learn how to scan for channels through search, but not horrible.
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medictom on 12/1/2011
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First a quick background 19 years computer exp. 12 years building/troubleshooting, built five computers in this time even had win95 running on a computer that was under op sys min specs 100mhz 16mb ram This product is amazing in my book good picture quality even the analog is clear, one thing this needs a better antenna, I am using this on a 2.1ghz amd k10 with 2gb ram, running win 7 64bit had no troubles with it so far 3 days is all i have had it tv reception is clear the radio is nice for the first couple of days i could not get the remote to work, for those of you with the same problem heres how to fix this, right click my computer, select properties, open the device manager, under sound video and game controllers(all the same category) you will see "Conextant Polaris Hybrid ATSC/QAM TV stick" one will have a yellow triangle right click this and select properties again, in this window, the middle tab below the title bar says "driver" click that then "update Driver", make sure you h
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trippsmith on 11/20/2011
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i got this product and the software asking about the license key i couldnt find license kay anywhere will call vendor about this if not then returning it ..
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nasir on 8/27/2011
I have 2 of the 6012's on a Windows 7 Media center. With the latest driver updates for windows 7 these work great. I am able to record 2 different channels at the same time. I have no problem with the FM playback like was mentioned elsewhere. You can not access the composite inputs from media center so I use Arcsoft for that. I had mine for over a year without any problems. I had a Superbowl party this year and everyone commented on how clear the picture was in HD. My system is on a projected 11 foot screen.
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Mike on 8/15/2011
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Worked as described. But of course not as powerful as TV. (Even with TV Antenna). This is how my laptop looks like:- System Description: Operating System: Vista, 32-Bit, 1 GB RAM Its a little slow on 1GB RAM, I would recommend at least 2GB RAM for Laptop for this app to run smooth. I installed Application player which came on CD along with GICA. Another note, this ships from USA, so delivery turn around time was preity quick.
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Jay on 8/15/2011
Strange behavior in Windows 7 Media Center -- if this tuner is recording a TV show, and you also try to use the FM tuner, instead of playing the radio broadcast, it plays the TV show's audio. In a nutshell, you cannot use the FM tuner and the TV tuner simultaneously. If you use this tuner in a Windows 7 Media Center multi-tuner setup, make sure to set this tuner as lowest-priority in the Edit Channel > Edit Sources menu. That way you can make sure the FM radio tuner is available, except when all tuners are in use. If you don't care about FM radio, buy the cheaper version of this tuner.
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Technosquid on 8/9/2011
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This Item work as advertised with provided CD in Window 7 64bit.
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Mony Setha Chheng on 7/29/2011
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Works well enough on analog cable. Finds few clear QAM channels despite other TVs which find 60 . Need to switch between analog and QAM, rather than scrolling through both. For twenty clams it was an okay purchase for a laptop, but don't make it the centerpiece of your system.
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userXXXXX on 7/16/2011
Works flawlessly. No problems installing on XP or W7 based systems. Using both Media Center and the provided software. ATSC tuner needs an outdoor antenna for best reception. Excellent clear QAM reception. I definitely recommend this product.
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Ray on 6/30/2011
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I didn't have a lot of hope for this to be an awesome gadget, but for the price I thought it'd be worth the gamble for a new toy to play with. I was right! This thing tunes analog cable tv stations as well as digital ATSC (over the air) and clearQAM (unencrypted cable) tv channels like a champ. It also has s-video and composite inputs for video capture from VHS, camcorder and other older, analog video gadgets. This stick works like a champ in Sage TV and I've tried it in Windows Media Center and a couple other PVR/DVR applications with success. The provided software if fairly limited, but gets the job done if you're not interested in using this stick for a HTPC or other dedicated application. I recently spotted them on sale again so I'm back to pick up another one :)
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Droo on 6/29/2011
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This is the third one I have ordered, and it's wonderful as always. Now all my computers have their own tv tuners. It's best using Windows Media Center. However, if you don't have windows media center, look up something called "NextPVR". It's 100x better than the arcsoft program it comes with.
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Naja on 6/8/2011
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The tunner would get hot and needed open air space around the device. The device died in less than a month.
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Joseph Behling on 5/23/2011
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i got this unit for two days before. fast shipping and work excellent with my centrino1.5ghz (from 2001)and duo 1.6ghz(from2006) laptop under xp.pic very clear and such more function.i am very satisfied with this order(except usb extension cable doesn't work but no big deal).
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william on 4/23/2011
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Pretty low sensitivity to antenna signals - both analog and digital - nice price but my kworld was much more sensitive
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dieselhead on 4/17/2011
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This device is pretty terrible. The drivers suck, and Windows Media Center only detects a signal form it about 20% of the time. Useless without decent drivers.
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Andrey on 4/8/2011
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Having acquired a Mygica USB tuner previously, which worked very well, I had high hopes for this one. But, like several other reviewers I spent hours attempting to get it working to no avail. I threw it in the trash finally. I have been very pleased with most of my meritline purchases, but this one was a terrible disappointment.
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William Manuel on 4/1/2011
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antenna reception is so funny. very tiny! get only 1 channel. seems to be broken since other side of that antenna can't expand.
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john on 3/14/2011
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I recieved it in a business week. within 20min was receiving over the air tv stations. although the antenna that comes with it is worthless using a different one works wonders received all channels offered in my area would, didnt do as well with the radio tuner but didnt care about that anyway so for me wasnt a factor when rating, recommend. especially being let then half the price of simular units
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bill on 2/27/2011
I received this TV stick today. I had downloaded the new drivers for Win 7 when I placed my order so installation was a snap. I then installed the ArcSoft software without a problem. Do keep the CD envelope since it contains an install code. The Arc Soft software will allow you to save favorite channels however it seems to lose your favorites and I haven't found a way to remove those I don't watch. Windows Media Center does not recognize this TV tuner. How long will it last? I will find out. I am getting good reception on many channels in my SF Bay Area location and picture quality is excellent.
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MJN on 2/25/2011
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Very surprised how well this worked considering price! Only problem I encountered, when recording a tv show, it would stop recording sometimes after 10 min, other times 20 min, saying it was prohibitive!
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Donna Hays on 2/19/2011
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It wasnot what I thought or did not work on Vista
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Jesse Northington on 2/19/2011
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Bundled antenna and software are pretty bad, and remote is spotty and prone to breaking open if dropped, but the tuner itself, when hooked up to a good antenna and Windows Media Center, works just fine. Way cheaper than other options!
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Kyle Kaiser on 2/18/2011
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The included drivers on the CD only worked with ATSC signal in Windows Media Center 7. To get the Clear QAM signal to work you need to download drivers from mygica website. Once installed, it works great with Verizon FIOS. Tech support was fast, although there is a slight language barrier.
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David Budek on 2/18/2011
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It worked so great on my Win7 32 bit desktop that I just got another one for my XP sp3 laptop, and it's also working great there. I live just outside of Kansas City and that little antenna is pulling in 22 channels for me, including all the major ones. On both machines the first thing I did was install the drivers provided on this product description page. Then I use WMC on the Win7 PC, and I use the arcsoft totalmedia app from the included disk on the XP machine. I'm not sure why so many others have trouble with this. Things went flawlessly for me on both machines.
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Naja on 2/15/2011
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i love the fact i can get analog and digetal signals. windows 7 media center although doesnt except the digital signal.But thats alright,the software you get with this is great.I especialy like when you make a dvd it shows you when your dvd is full and ready to burn.
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john wheeler on 1/25/2011
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The tuner works great. It does fine for over the air digital broadcast signals. You can also hook up any video source to the included composite video input wires such as DVD Player, or video camera and the computer will encode that into a usable digital format. My only complaint is that the antenna broke as soon as I tried to use it. When I extended one side of the antenna, it simply slid right off. Still receives a signal ok though.
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Sander on 1/18/2011
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Tuner works amazingly well on Windows 7. The TotalMedia interface is a little simplistic, but easily works with Windows Media Center. Had some issues getting it to work on Windows Server 2008, but found a fix for those that need it. Install the fix, use Windows Vista driver, enjoy! http://win2008workstation.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=22&t=1023
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Jon on 1/15/2011
Thanks to this USB gabget. I bring a laptop for business travelling, and enjoy Program anywhere I have time, even if in airport and restaurant. It is easy in use, convenient to me. Also I took some MTV record and catch a photo of the pop star from TV program. Good for you, you cannot miss it
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William Nakamura on 1/12/2011
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Great deal compared to buying a real HDTV or if you have to travel with your laptop...I haven't tried the video capture feature yet. My HDTV gets only a few more channels than this can tune in so it's pretty good. If you already own a laptop and have cable internet a simple splitter will give you tons of channels (analog and digital) for free plus the radio is cool for background. You need to download the patch if you have Windows 7. Nice remote control! Toss the included antenna and order Belkin PureAV HDTV / VHF / UHF / FM Amplified Indoor Antenna sku# 218-268-001 it'll give you way more than the free toy antenna that is included; it will be the best $20 you can spend if you don't have cable tv.
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Barrie Brown on 12/27/2010
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I love this product, but there is no customer service for it after you buy it so if something goes wrong you cannot get help.
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Adam  Lambert on 12/13/2010
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Installed on Win. XP OS. Works well too, but as expected, I did not receive any channels with the small antenna since I live 40 miles from the nearest station. With a small indoor amplified antenna, I picked up 9 stations, one over 50 miles! Picture quality is great on my 4 year old Dell Notebook computer. I am going to try to get it to work with Linux OS.
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Fred on 12/2/2010
A good product, works very well in my old Dell notebook.
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Mayor on 11/21/2010
It is good, when I change to a big antenna, I can get all channels, and I checked on the web, here I need a big antenna. Mygica, I don't know who it is, but it works.
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Frank Wod on 11/15/2010
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Works quite well with artec digital flat antenna.
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Wesley on 11/14/2010
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This works but it didn't get all the channels I was hoping for.
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Edward Koury on 11/12/2010
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after used for one month then keep asking for the password and I just type it in the same password that came along the envelop but never work, can somebody please provide the password for me will be thanks full to make it work again. ArcSoft-Password:Z7VBTJ-GMVYFZ4VG2-QL3B6ZBB (this my cd that came along)
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joey on 11/11/2010
It picks up all the channels I need in San Francisco. A good product.
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Ignacio Born on 11/11/2010
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I bought this an received it in April and I am finally getting around to installing it. It wouldn't install on my XP sp3 desktop, but is wonderful on an 2007 2gb memory Vista lappy, and I imagine it might be great on my Win7 4gig mem laptop.
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mark on 11/6/2010
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I was surprised. This kit works for my setup just fine. I have my DISH DVR linked to three other flat screen TV besides the main home theater big screen by coax cable. Just loaded software and worked in Windows 7, but could not use in Media Center to view. Also would not minimize as small either, but split the screen to view and use the Internet at the same time. Also you will need a flexible coax cable and a 90 degree fitting to keep it from disconnecting from the USB port.
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Rick  Moore on 10/29/2010
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device works perfectly the steps i followed plugged in device downloaded the drivers supplied by meritline above installed the software on the cd using arcoft and the supplied key on the cd case hooked up the coax cable to the device and boom digital tv
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Robert  Jackson on 10/8/2010
Very easy to install, great price.
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Kent on 10/6/2010
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Excellent product... I even use the antenna for getting signal for my normal TVs.
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Adrian Flores on 9/27/2010
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Easy to install, less than an hour. Allowed me access to about 10 free channels, CBS, NBC, very clear. No ABC, sadly. Worth the money.
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Chris on 9/24/2010
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I bought the Tv tuner and I had no luck at all with it. I tried everything and spent about 10 hrs. and called cust. support and it never worked,I sent it back for refund, which I did recieve.I paid 29.99 for it, the price has steadily dropped a few dollars at a time, i think it was 16.99 last time i saw it. i would pass it by if I were you. not worth the hassel.
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Randy Dull on 9/24/2010
Just get what it Promised,excellent price!
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Jose Carlos on 9/20/2010
For the price,this is quite the deal. Installation took all of 10 minutes and I was up and running [win7]. OTA and Clear QAM channels have brilliant picture quality [720p] Have outputted signal to a 60" sharp and the PQ rivals the Cisco 8640HDC set top box. If you're having problems getting this thing to work? .....it's either a defective unit or you need to call someone who's more competent.
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ChillyCat on 9/17/2010
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This product does not work. I have Windows 7 and the drivers that came with this device as well as the ones available for download all say they are corrupt. The sound does not work. DO NOT BUY.
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Matthew Maine on 9/1/2010
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Never worked as I read in description
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HUGO ENRIQUEZ on 8/27/2010
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The only reason this didn't get the highest rating possible is because the antenna broke immediately. When I plugged it in, I went to extend the antenna and one of the sides came right off. It still works, so I didn't complain, but it's just odd that one of the sides of the antenna broke like that. Otherwise it's a nice product for the money. I haven't used it as much as I thought I would, but it seemed to work just fine when I first got it.
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Sander Cha on 8/27/2010
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I got this unit after purchasing U608A unit. U6012A is much better at decoding QAM channels and also has the option to decode normal analog channels through cable. I would recommend this one over the other unit.
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Seung Moon on 8/25/2010
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This tuner certainly has it's faults, or at least it's compatability with Vista...but am I glad I bought it...I guess. I use it to watch tv in my bedroom. I run a comcast box to it and the picture is very grainy. I also have to keep the tuner set to channel 4 and change the channel with the box remote...but it gets the job done. However, there are times when I have to keep reseting the tuner. It says the tuner can no longer be detected. I use the included software because it locks media player up. I've read a lot about doing a clean install, but I really didn't want to go through all of that. The picture's grainy (could be my system isn't powerful enough), it works when it wants to (could be compatability with my machine), but for the most part...I am now able to watch tv on my computer for a relatively inexpensive price.
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Jesse Townsend on 8/24/2010
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Works well. I would recommend upgading he antenna.
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Dennis Thomann on 8/24/2010
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This item worked as described except for the weak tv signal reception. I am able to see internet tv without commercials with my desktop PC with Windows Media so that's a plus. But trying to watch regular over-the-air tv didn't work for me as the frame keep freezing on me. I haven't tried it on my laptop yet so don't know if it will work or not. I would say this is worth it for the price (~$23) paid.
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John Nguyen on 8/24/2010
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I'm using this product with Windows XP. It works just fine, pulling in about a dozen digital channels using the included antenna. The included software is a little clunky, but it does work. I will enjoy being able to watch football in HD while putzing around in my garage with this item.
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RickR on 8/24/2010
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Does not have enough power from the antenna to bring in any channels if you have suggestions please help. A total waste of money
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Ron Davis on 8/24/2010
I have nothing to say for this price. I get all the channels that I want by such a small antenna. Some station is too far away to get, but that is ok for me.
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Garrison on 8/21/2010
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Excellent product... I have one for me, and I also has bought another 5 for friends and family.
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Adrian Flores on 8/4/2010
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Decent unit. I purchased it primarily for the composite video input. The supplied software hangs if you select this device's audio input, but works fine if you use another sound card's input. Supplied antenna is a piece of junk, otherwise, it's a decent non-accelerated tuner.
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Michael on 7/26/2010
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Bought this to use with my laptop in my RV and got good over the air reception 20 miles or more from the closest station. Experimented with a cable connection which took a very long to to scan with mixed results. Detected several hundred channels but almost all were shown as locked. Basic (analog) cable work fairly well. I good but on sale @ $22.99
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les on 7/25/2010
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Works well with Windows 7 as long as you get the patch from Mygica.
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Matthew Hinkle on 7/20/2010
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Nothing Great about the product. The antenna sucks, but when you put another antenna (big one), it can get more channels. Doesn't work on MAC OS, and couldn't run it on a Virtual Machine. Had to run Windows 7 on native mode to get it running. The software that comes with it sucks, use Windows Media Center....
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Kaushal Shrestha on 7/20/2010
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good product, has connection issues due to its size can take up mltiple usb ports. i am happy with performance
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Bradley Bridwell on 7/20/2010
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The device works great in Windows 7 and the remote and TV work with Media Center fine. I have a rooftop antenna I use shared with 4 other televisions. I tried the s-video with an old camcorder and that works great to capture video. in the Total Media program. The Total Media 3.5 tells me that another aplication (Media Center) us using the device so I guess both don't show TV simo- unless you do the setup again. It wants me to close the application using the device but it is not open so ??? Setup didn't take very long. I used the instructions on Meritline and I think I used the Win7 driver. So far happy with the product. The Total Media program interface is easy to use but seems dated in appearance.
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Debrah Radack on 7/19/2010
Bases on the price, this device is a miracle. I found all channels here on my laptop. Great product, great price.
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Henry on 7/19/2010
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excellent product I saw the 2010 world cup from my work on my computer
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Jorge Perdomo on 7/19/2010
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Its a good product.
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Lenin G on 7/17/2010
I am mad for buying this piece of crap. local channels should at least work a rinky dink antanna if i went out and got a better antanna i wonder if it would work . i get static . i need help working this ....
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Ron Davis on 7/14/2010
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Seems to work as promised... The little extension cable it comes with was giving a crappy picture, but plugging the stick directly into the usb port works great.
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Kyle  Sederstrom on 7/10/2010
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it worked for a few weeks now nothing its dead how do i return
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august  Genz on 7/8/2010
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good service and good price. product did not work after several week operation and I returned for full refund.
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thomas cortese on 7/4/2010
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It captured less than half of the available broadcast TV stations. It shut down on home-made VHS tapes, falsely claiming they were copy protected. No attempt to capture radio as yet. It's in a drawer in the basement.
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Paul Rose on 6/23/2010
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Getting weak signal, only 1 channel found and video was lagging very bad. Piece of junk, waste of money.
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Tony on 6/21/2010
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I'm sorry for such an awful review of this product but we first tried contacting Mygica because the CD code was not valid. Once the new code arrived to install the CD, even my son who is an 'expert' level Techie wasn't able to get it to work on our laptop (Vista, for those wondering). We've had an excellent purchasing history with Meritline but the sum of the total parts on this item was to request a RMA to send it back.
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Carolyn Caffey on 6/19/2010
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Never got this to work and not for lack of trying either.
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Guy Lee on 6/18/2010
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I cannot get this item to work with my dell laptop and charter cable. Not sure what the problem is. I have 4gb of memory. disappointed wanted to get rid of my dvr.
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Helen  Chatel on 6/16/2010
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This tuner works perfectly. I am using it with Windows 7 Media Center and using the included antenna. It is more reliable than the far more costly pro grade digital demod that we are running at our broadcast facility.
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james spears on 6/15/2010
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TV signals come thru good. But the Video capture does not work. not happy with the product. Meritline shipping was fast though.
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subramani arunkumar on 6/15/2010
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It's a piece of junk. the driver does not work on Windows 7 even after trying all the suggestions from support documentation. The tech support via email is useless. I would not buy anything from this manufacture.
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Patel on 6/10/2010
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Amazing!!!!! this is an excellent deal, the image quality is an A Plus, just use a bigger antenna and forget the one supplied, I’m using a regular V antenna 2’ long, then you can watch real High Definition TV, the price is excellent, other brand selling for over $ 100 when you need this for Windows 7 compatibility, delivery was only 3 days, I really recommend this product, Thanks Meritline.
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JB on 6/3/2010
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do not buy it, very poor quality
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tom chu on 6/1/2010
Downgrading previous review. It's going in my drawer of useless devices after 2 months of frustrating, error-prone use, often requiring rebooting. In Cleveland and SFO it captures only about 1/3 of the broadcast stations available. Also, copy protection prevents transferring home-made VHS tapes at all. The manual is nearly useless and also in poor English.
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Paul in San Francisco on 5/31/2010
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Excellent device for the money. Included antenna works better than rabbit ears I have used on my big TV. Hard to beat at this price.
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William Hutcheson on 5/29/2010
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Does not work. Freezes my computer, I have an i7, 9 gigs of ram, and windows 7. DO NOT BUY!
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Jason Schweder on 5/29/2010
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Piece of crap. Does not work with Windows Media Center on win7 x64. WMC needs to see the remote IR so that you can plug in, for example, the xbox 360 and watch it in WMC. Many emails to tech support in china failed to even ACKNOWLEDGE that there was a problem, nor could they understand what I was trying to say. DO NOT BUY.
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Dylan Fahey on 5/29/2010
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Tuner works very well receives as many channels as my HDTV wonder but doesn't crash my computer like the ATI card. I did not try the remote. But I have used the tuner with W7 Media player and Beyond TV and it works very well. Amazing low price
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Brad White on 5/29/2010
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this tuner do not work don't buy it
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hinh??ngo on 5/28/2010
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Remote does NOT work with Windows Media Center, though tuner does. Since the IR receiver and the tuner are connected, having it plugged in screws up the IR receiver for the Windows Media Center remote I bought separately after the fact. I'm thinking there's probably a way to disable one in device manager but I haven't gotten around to it. I would take this one with a grain of salt.
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George Rivas on 5/28/2010
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Don't waste your money, I haven't got it to pick up anything even with Flat antenna added to it
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Robert Cook on 5/25/2010
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works good
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michael winsor on 5/16/2010
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im pleased with this product it works exelent i recommend it...
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mario lopez on 5/15/2010
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The tuner works great turning my notebook into a TV and Recorder. I get programs from cable and the antenna in HD, The software with it is also great.
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David Repsher on 5/15/2010
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I purchased this tuner solely to use with Vista 32 Media Center. For Media center, you only need to install the drivers. It is connected to my household antenna and it works beautifully for recording HD and SD digital OTA broadcast TV. If you want to use video capture, FM radio or other features,you have to install the software that shipped with it.
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Doug in Phoenix on 5/15/2010
It takes me half an hour to make it works, and it does good job. HD is perfect tuned, and video input from my PS3 is brilliant. A nice product.
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Jack on 5/13/2010
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The seller is good. I received the product in a timely manner, but no audio driver for windows 7 that works for radio. The device also only picks up 1 or 2 channels if that, and I live in city limits. I DO NOT RECOMMEND THIS DEVICE AT ALL UNLESS YOU BUY YOUR OWN HIGHER GAIN ANTENNA AND GET DRIVERS THAT WORK WITH WINDOWS 7!
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Tony on 5/11/2010
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this stopped working within a few days of receipt. The software was difficult to use and seemed incompatible with the device. I gave up and it's now in my box of useless electronics
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David on 5/7/2010
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I could not get the software to install correctlly with windows 7. So it did not work on my computer.
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Edward Lamb on 5/7/2010
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Works as advertised, pulling in 36 TV stations in the Wash DC area. But the included software is mediocre, even though better than Windows Media Center.
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David Cohler on 5/7/2010
this thing is good, value for money- worked on forst rry-it takes sometime to scan theu the signal spectrum.the inclided antena is not that good it has poor reception,i asnt able totune in any channels with that, i connected my home cable and tried on laptop,i was getting some 10-14 channels with out even the subscription -all other channels were listed as locked. the channels i got included both SD and HD and were vary sharp. It was a good deal only con i found - this usb adapteor gets hot- but not too hot to touch ofcourse :)
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cynthiya on 5/1/2010
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The OTA Tuner works beautifully under Vista32 Media Center. The only thing I installed were the drivers for the tuner. I use an outside antenna. For me, it is a good value for just the OTA tuner; any other use will be a bonus.
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Doug on 4/30/2010
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For the price much can't be expected from this device. With that said after many hours I was able to get it functioning. NOTE: DO NOT USE A USB EXTENSION OR FRONT PANEL USB PORT. THIS IS WHERE THE PROBLEM LIES. I don't know if it was just my unit but if the stick is not perfectly aligned Windows does not recognize it. I ran into numerous problems when using a front panel usb and the supplied USB extension. Working on Win 7 x64. And also don't expect a 3" antenna to get good reception in your mom's basement :)
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Tony on 4/25/2010
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this is simply the WORST tuner. when my converter can pickup 50 channels, this picks up ZERO channels. DO NOT WASTE YOUR TIME(i spent 3 hours) AND MONEY BUYING THIS PRODUCT.
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able969 on 4/23/2010
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I found this product very difficult to set up. I'm no computer whiz and there were too many steps for me and I was never sure if it were not working or if it was just me. The tv antenna worked quite well on its own. I got many channels.
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kyra  gautreaux on 4/22/2010
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I'm glad I bought this. I love it!!! Tried the air signal Tv with WMC (Windows 7) and it works. The remote and radio works without any problems. Setup was easy using the drivers in this page. Didn't tried the video capture feature because I don't have devices.
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Iris on 4/17/2010
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Works like a charm with W7 media center. Picks up more channels than my HDTV can. Recording quality is great too.
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Michael Cox on 4/16/2010
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tuner & remote works great with windows 7 64 bit and media center, however I had to uninstall ArcSoft TotalMedia 3.5 software because of interference with other software programs, so I just use it with windows media center and it works great.
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CRAIG COOPER on 4/12/2010
After some small trouble of installing the software on the CD, this staff finally works, and it gives me a big superise, it catches 65 digital channels over the air. Wonderful product at such a price.
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Gray on 4/10/2010
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antenna is very weak, but converter works
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ajv on 4/9/2010
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After a little playing & updating driver I got it to work with Satelite receiver & anolog cable connection.I never could get antenna to connect to stick,wrong connector wouldn't fit to adapter.Had a good picture from Satelite Wireless receiver from X-10 connected to second output on receiver .Waiting on snswer from Dealer on antenna.
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Robert E Cook on 4/6/2010
Windows 7, 32 bit on a Core 2 laptop. Received the stick and had a bit of trouble installing it for use on Windows 7. Did not use included software after reading other reviews. But downloaded latest drivers from above for use with Media Center. Took several tries to get the computer to recognize it, and then a few more times to get Media Center to recognize it. I bought this for use primarily with QAM channels. It works occasionally, but is VERY unreliable. I would say about 1/3 of scheduled recordings occur. The others don't take place with "No TV Signal" message. I'll be sitting at the computer, get the message, flip on Media Center, and there'll be no signal on that station. Flip to another station, get a signal, flip back and the station I want will magically reappear. Even for $25 I'd recommend saving your money to put it towards something better. The inconsistency is too much to be able to recommend this.
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Lee on 3/30/2010
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I was unsatisfied with the product. I couldn't get it to work well and I ended up returning it before the 30 days were up.
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Juan  Barreto on 3/29/2010
This stick-tuner works pretty good once you get it working. Just make sure you are using the drivers found here on Meritline (unless you want to use the lame included software) and Win7 Media Center. Works well (95% of the time) with my single ATI CableCARD tuner so that I can record something while I watch live TV on the other tuner. You could likely pay more and get something slightly more reliable and easy to use but you can't beat this for the price, especially if you catch it on sale. ;)
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Lucas on 3/29/2010
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Item would not pick up any channels despite having about 15 in my major metropolitan area. I even tried a working antenna from a friend's USB tuner and it did not pick up any. Meritline offered an RMA but no solution. I am too lazy to return the thing and too cheap to pay the postage. I will just suck it up as cheap Chinese workmanship.
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Charles Dewar on 3/28/2010
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I finally got it to work on my 10.1" netbook (win7. starter OS.), 17" laptop and desktop (Win xp OS.). I use out door antenna and get 85 on air chanels. on Radio about 18 chanels. The only problem havn't got the remote to work yet.
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Reza on 3/26/2010
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This installed on laptop with Vista Home Premium 64 bit. However worked badly on my XP Pro SP2 desktop. Had problems installing driver but that turned out to be a bad USB port although this same USB works ok for others. This is a good value for the money. The HD is amazing on the laptop. If Meritline sold TV's, I would buy one.
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James on 3/22/2010
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great product good reception excellent price
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carol spurgeon on 3/21/2010
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this device conflicts with hauppauge drivers. also will stop being a tuner after 5 minutes of watching on a fresh install windows 7 box. i returned for a full refund (hopefully).
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LOI  NGUYEN on 3/20/2010
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I recently purchased this unit and installed it on my desktop (xp) and then installed it on my notebook (vista). It worked great. Note: be sure to d/l the updated drivers from meritline for either xp or vista before starting the installation. The software install went smoothly except when the bundled software 'arcsoft' asked for the serial number. It wasn't easy to find (on the flap of the cd envelope), otherwise all went smoothly. The channels available will GREATLY NOTE: I SAID GREATLY depend on your indoor antenna and whether or not buildings might block reception. When you get the free over the air (OTA)digital channel, they are beautiful and picture perfect.
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r canaday on 3/20/2010
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Wasted 7 hours and $39.99 Does not work in Vista 64. Drivers and software a nightmare. Will try again after Win 7 upgrade,not holding my breath. BUYER BEWARE......
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Joshua  Alex on 3/20/2010
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This is a great USB tuner stick that can also capture from an analog source. It works great in Media Center, although the remote isn't very useful unless you run the bundled software. The Arcsoft software that comes with it is okay, but I prefer WMC. The little toy antenna that comes with this tuner won't do much for you unless you're sitting at the base of a TV tower, but cheap rabbit ears can be used and will work fine. Overall, this tuner stick is an excellent value.
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Steve Taylor on 3/20/2010
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I am disapointed with this product! It worked fine for a little over a month, then it died on me! I will ask for a refund or credit. This is no reflection on Meritline. I have ordered tons of stuff from here and this is the first time a product has failed. I will stay away from the "Mygica" brand fom now on!
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Jeffrey  Custalow on 3/16/2010
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It works with Windows 7 64bit. I just wish the antenna was bigger. But i still get the basic channels. It was easy to set up.
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Javier  Gomez on 3/15/2010
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Great buy. Haven't gotten it to wrok yet.
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William Lehr on 3/12/2010
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Fast shipping, product works as expected. Highly recommended
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Jerry Faulkner on 3/10/2010
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Works like a charm. Easy to install. Up and running in 20 minutes including channel scan. Great product.
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Ed Gabel on 3/10/2010
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Doesn't work as expected. I also have an Artec USB TV Tuner, which was purchased from Meritline, works like a charm on my desktop with the Artec antenna. But this one, for some reason, frequently lose signal and many times just could not be recognized by my computer. Ended up returning this product.
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Fengkun Liu on 3/9/2010
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Works perfectly with Windows 7 Ultimate 64 bit. The reception is brilliant and HD channels looked absolutely gorgeous on my 1080p LCD monitor. Drivers did not install automatically but were bundled on the driver CD, so a no-hasstle installation (from CD) is needed to be done. Windows MC works perfectly with the provided remote.
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rockthegod on 3/8/2010
My girlfriend just bought this for her laptop and had me set it up for her. We skipped the packaged software and installed the Windows Media Center drivers listed on the product page. After the drivers installed I launched WMC and within minutes we were up and running. Picture is great, the reception is amazing considering how small the included antenna is(we're getting all but 1 of our local major channels, and even my full sized antenna has trouble with that one!) The hardware simply does what it's supposed to but the real beauty of this is the EXCELLENT features of windows media center!
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Eric on 3/8/2010
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Unfortunately I was unable to get it to work on my computer. I contacted Meritline who made a few suggestions, and when they didn't work, I was able to return the item with no problems. The only thing not covered was the return shipping which I would not have expected them to do.
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Edward Gallardo on 3/2/2010
Works perfectly with mu Win7 64bit laptop, image is excellent. Trash your Tivo and buy this!
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MiamiNice on 3/1/2010
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This product is much better than I expected. The setup was easy with windows 7 64 bit. It receives good picture and sound from my satellite receiver. I only receive 2 over the air channels but thats all there is here.I like the Total Media software better than WMC as it has much better picture. The remote works great too. This is the best tuner I have owned.
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Jim Ehlert on 2/28/2010
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great value for the price
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joleo monsalud on 2/26/2010
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I live in the country between Rochester and Syracuse NY, and use my roof antenna for over the the air free HD Channels. I get both areas very well on my big screen TV, and I get the exact same channels just as strong on my Win 7, HP Laptop. As long as you update the drivers (from the link right on this site),everything works perfect with Win 7....!!!
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Mark Arnold on 2/26/2010
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The product is OK. But I did have a lot of problems getting it to work; I don't know what actually worked for me to tell the truth, but I downloaded the drivers from Meritline and from the manufacturer and tried the ones that come with the device. In the end I reinstalled Windows 7 from scratch and installed all the drivers, and something worked. If you have a few hours and have a backup HD to make sure you don't loose any important files, then go for it. PS the antenna included is just for show, make or buy one. Can be used with Windows Media Center
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Gabe on 2/26/2010
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The product is very temperamental. You cant exit once you have it loaded other than rebooting. Hogs a lot of resource (I have dual Xeon with 4gb memory), to a point where you cant to anything else. Update to software (in the CD) are not available at the web site. I am in downtown, so the number of channels available is very limited (I get about 4). The included antenna is very small. Overall I give it a C-.
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Narahari Mahadevan on 2/26/2010
Amazing deal for the price. Used in Windows 7 32bit. Over-the-air HDTV and FM radio works fantastically in Media Center. With my Xbox 360 as an extender, im watching free HDTV from my couch with DVR capabilities. Included remote seemed to work well, but I don't have a need for it. Haven't tried the "Home Video" recording feature or the included software.
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BJ on 2/8/2010
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I did not try the product with cable connection... only antenna. After some work, it did get the signal and things were ok. However, since that time the product has locked up my computer on multiple occasions. I finally uninstalled it.
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Linda Lee on 2/8/2010
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Works well on my netbook - found stations easily and shows clear pictures. Had issues trying to use it on my desktop ---not sure why, but couldn't find any stations - even though showing a strong signal. My guess is that it was an issue with my setup and not the product. Planning on using it with the netbook anyway.
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Randy Howarth on 2/8/2010
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All I can is WOW. This little thing works like a charm. I am using it with Windows 7 and Media center. I am stunned at the incredible quality of the OTA HD channels and recordings. I didn't use the disk at all. I only installed the drivers from this page, and then opened Media center and scanned for digital channels. It was up and running perfectly in a matter of 5 minutes, and most of that time was waiting for the channel scan to finish.
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Jan on 2/8/2010
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Insallation has been complicated. Driver for Win XP is not available. No SW CD was included. Until now the device is not working.
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Jorge De la Garza on 2/8/2010
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Kind of difficult to set up channels.tragic among
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Ming-Lei Wu on 2/7/2010
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Seems to function well: there is a problem finding information on operation.
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Guy Chambers Jr on 2/7/2010
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Works great, was amazed at the stations that were picked up with free antenna. It works almost as good as my outside antenna mounted on 40' pole.
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Ray Wisdom on 2/7/2010
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A compact tv tuner system that works great on my Acer Netbook. It's definitely a take anywhere system to get you updated on stocks, news, and sports.
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Joe Baughman on 2/7/2010
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Works great. Included antenna is worthless, however I bought an active antenna and now it gets all the channels where I live. Bought it for my RV and I am very happy with it!
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Greg Gulbrandsen on 2/7/2010
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Works well and easy to set up. Has one little quirk that when in full screen mode you cannot go back and get to a small screen mode and have your other program, such as an excel spread sheet, to work on. Have to close and then reopen in the small screen mode. Great picture though.
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Ralph Kamps on 2/7/2010
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I was unable to get this product to work with Windows 7 64bit Media Center
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William Cohagan on 2/7/2010
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Can't get this to work to receive TV or even to receive radio. Support is non existent.
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Betty Santa on 2/7/2010
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Amazing little unit. Did have some issues trying to get it to work with Windows 7. The support was great and in a few days it was working just fine.
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Jeffrey Smith on 2/6/2010
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Hard to tell if it's the hardware or software, but way too many issues including hardware crashes to want to use this product. Waste of money.
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Russell Silbiger on 2/6/2010
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This thing works pretty good. Pulls in stations quite well turning my laptop into a portable TV. And the price is lower than a 7 inch portable.
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Hal Weber on 2/6/2010
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I was pleased with product and shipment time
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mary lou legere on 2/6/2010
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Works good, nice software included, Cool little antenna picks up HD channels well!
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steven dunn on 2/6/2010
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Works great. Does not require additional power source which is great. Surprisingly, the small little antenna does pretty well. Happy with the purchase.
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Kin Chan on 2/6/2010
The tuner is a good product. But the TotalMedia has very high demand on CPU (> 2.6 GHz). Windows 7 Media Center works on the tuner and has low CPU demand. If your computer is not so powerful, Windows Media Center may work for you.
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John on 2/5/2010
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Poor analog video quality, very grainy. OTA HD works well.
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MC on 2/5/2010
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Works okay so far. BUT, it does not come without some issues, which I list below. 1) The serial number / activation code is on disk and not on paper sleeve that encloses disk. Really dumb since you will be asked for this information during installation. Only way to get it is to eject disk, which caused problem for me as it screwed up install process. So, copy code off disk BEFORE begin install. 2) Product did not come with any written installation instructions or anything else, for that matter. 3) Could not get channels to show up at first. Don't know if it was Total Media software or tuner. The issue was I had to use 'Safely Remove Hardware' to shut down tuner and then restart computer. (Was this the result of the installation process being interrupted due to having to eject disk to get activation code?) Once I did that an AGAIN scanned for channels, everything worked fine. 4) Remote illustrated in manual on CD is not remote that came with tuner. Had to get cor
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James on 2/3/2010
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The unit work well with both my desktop and laptop. The small free antenna wotks better with my DTV converter than a DTV antenna I purchased at Walmart for more money.
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Kenneth  Alexander on 1/29/2010
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I was a little worried after reading some of the reviews, but this product is excellent. I have not tried it with the ArcSoft TotalMedia software because I found that Win7 Media Center is amazing. Only a few negatives: When setting it up with MC, don't set it up as cable and antenna at the same time; it will not let you switch between them. YOu can, however set up ClearQam and Analog Cable at the same time. Every now and then I receive an error that there is no tuner found. I simply close MC and restart it. Also, winMC does not support the AV input. Overall, great product. HD is crystal clear and analog is good considering you are playing it on an HD screen.
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Jared on 1/27/2010
Anyone know how to get this A/V input to work with Win 7 MC?
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Jared on 1/23/2010
I get around 70 channels, some of them unstable but after change the antenna solved. It works excellent.
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Herry on 1/17/2010
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The antenna is inadequate to receive much. At first I thought the tuner stick might not be working. A regular large antenna did the trick. I had to load the latest software from the arcsoft website. The device produces a very clear static free picture. The tuner stick is a real bargain.
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mitsuru??yamada on 1/16/2010
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Works great on cable.
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Ronald Ciecka on 1/15/2010
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Best TV tuner for $30; Win 7, Media Center for recording & viewing. Just install the drivers from the website if you have Win 7.
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Aldeusz  Jozefczyk on 1/14/2010
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After reading all of the mixed reviews here, I went ahead and bought the Mygica hybrid USB TV tuner stick. I am not disappointed. It works well but could use an upgraded antenna. Surprisingly the little toy like antenna does work in areas with strong signals. The FM tuner is a nice bonus. Unlike others, I liked the Total Media software and feel it works well (Vista). I would buy this again.
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John S on 1/14/2010
This product did what I expected, pick up a lot channels with really good performance. And with the new driver from the website, it works under W7 64 bits as well. And its antenna is small but fatastic. Worthy of buying!
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Alex Botah on 1/12/2010
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Was looking forward to using this item on my laptop in my home office. Unfortunately, it did not work out of the box. Would not receive signal on multiple OTA antennas. Tried multiple PCs with various Windows OSs with the same result. Had to return for refund. Really wanted this to work, but it didn't for me. Your mileage may vary.
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Steve  Trauba on 1/5/2010
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Agree with previous writer. I have tried everything on both my laptop (XP) and desktop (Win 7) and can,t get this to work. Very poor documentation
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Jim Coffey on 12/30/2009
Got ot in the mail today. Install went well. I'm running Vista on an HP multimedia laptop and everything works fine.
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John on 11/9/2009
The software for the unit seems to have caused a problem with my PC. Sent it back.
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