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Mygica A680B USB HDTV Tuner, Windows 7 64bit and 32bit Certified, Clear QAM and ATSC TV, Windows 7 Media Center Remote and Free Antenna, Live HDTV On PC or Laptop with Antenna or Clear QAM from Digital Cable, Live / Scheduled TV Recording Best Seller!

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Mygica A680B USB HDTV Tuner, Windows 7 64bit and 32bit Certified, Clear QAM and ATSC TV, Windows 7 Media Center Remote and Free Antenna, Live HDTV On PC or Laptop with Antenna or Clear QAM from Digital Cable, Live / Scheduled TV Recording

Manufacturer Part # A680B

Windows 7 and Media Center: Mygica tuners are Windows certified products and Windows 7 Media Center will automatically detect this tuner. Simply install the driver (32bit and 64bit)download from this page or from the enclosed CD-ROM and you will enjoy the HDTV on PC.

Note on Windows 7 Media Center Remote: The remote is designed for Windows 7 Media Ceter and/or TotalMedia software. You need to install the IR remote software found on the enclosed CD under D:\TV IR Folder or the IR software installation will start automatically when installing the software from CD-ROM.

**After installing the IR software, make sure to select the Media center in setting if you need to use it to control the Media Center. The default setting is to control the TotalMedia software. (look for the last image on top for more details).

***The Free mini Antenna has limited performance due to its size. For best reception result, please use an outdoor antenna or a large Antenna.

ArcSoft TotalMedia 3.5 is a third party software running on XP, Vista, Windows 7. It works like the Windows Media Center.

New A680B Drivers for 32bit and 64bit Windows7 MC were released for download here. This card does not support XP MCE. If you need to use this tuner for Vista Media center, download this Vista patch first(from Microsoft (Link).Download Vista Patch Here!

Download: Win7 MCE Driver 32bit and 64bit New

Please uninstall all previous driver first. Click here for Windows 7 Manual

32bit and 64bit windows driver for XP and Vista

Click here to download the Installation instruction

Technical Support:

Read our FAQs on TV Tuners below or email toSupport@geniatech.com or order@meritline.com

HDTV Stick- A680B is a Pen size USB HDTV Stick. The mini and compact design makes every trip of you much more easier and portable! Enjoy ATSC Over-The-Air HDTV(8VSB) and un-scrambled cable HDTV (Clear QAM) entertainment whenever you like and wherever you go on your PC.

Features:

Advanced TV Application
Watch free crystal clear HDTV ATSC (Clear QAM and 8VSB) TV on laptop and desktop
Rewind and fast forward live TV show with Always Time Shifting recording
Electronic Program Guide (EPG)
High resolution snapshot
Full function remote

Schedule TV recording and save directly to your PC's hard driver in Mpeg2 format

Specification:

Tuner
Input Terminal: 75 Ohm Connector
Receiving Frequency:
TV: 48.25 ~ 863.25 MHz

USB Interface
Universal Serial Bus 2.0 Standard
B Type USB Female Connector

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, Windows Vista , Windows 7 32 bit and 64 bit
P4 1.7MHz CPU or above for SDTV
P4 2.5GHz CPU or above for HDTV
128M RAM or above for SDTV 256M 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 unscrambled cable for QAM

Package Includes:

A680B ATSC USB Tuner for PC and laptop
Infrared Remote Control
Mini RF to F converter
High Gain TV Antenna
Quickly Installation Guide
Software CD (Driver and ArtSoft TotalMedia 3.5.7.279)

Tester's Review

Installed this Mygica A680B ATSC Tuner Stick with enclosed TV Antenna in East Los Angles Area, California on my laptop running Win XP Pro and i got the following free digital channels over the air with great picture quality:

2-1 KCBS-DT 1080i
4-1 NBC-4LA 1080i
4-2 WX+NR NBC Weather
5-1 KTLA-DT 1080i
7-1 KABC-DT ABC 720P
7-2 LivWell
7-3 KABC-WN Weather
9-1 KCAL-DT KCAL9 1080i
22-1 KWHY-DT
28-1 KCET HD 1080i
28-2 KCET OC
28-3 KCET Vm
30-1 ION
30-2 qubo
30-3 ION Life
30-4 Worship
34-1 KMEX-DT
50-1 KOCE HD 1080i
50-2 KOCE OC
52-1 KVEA-HD
54-1 KAZA-DT
56-1 KDOC-SD
62-1 KRCA-DT

Note: Antenna position and heights will affect Channel scan result. Check out our digital TV Tuner FAQ for detail.

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

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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(3.21 out of 5) based on 419 ratings. Total # of Reviews: 419 user reviews. Write a review


was able to tune in comcast channels available for limited package but it took very long for it to scan them all.no channels appeared for first 30 min of scanning. it works but i would spend more and get ati tuners.
(137 people found your comment helpful, 115 did not)	lnp2 on 11/22/2009


I bought this USB tuner because I wanted to watch TV over the antenna, but the included antenna is a joke. I then bought the directional Artec antenna on this site. I got two more channels, but none of the major channels (ABC,NBC,CBS,FOX). The included software is pretty bad, and you can't use it with other software.
(137 people found your comment helpful, 115 did not)	Chuck on 11/22/2009


No QAM with windows 7 MC. Waiting for driver, may never happen.
(137 people found your comment helpful, 115 did not)	DM. on 11/20/2009


Exactly as described. Even sent me an email to update on the shipping info since it was backordered.
(137 people found your comment helpful, 115 did not)	D Stevenson on 11/19/2009


I like the product the only draw back is that it doesn't hook up to satellite on my tv.
(137 people found your comment helpful, 115 did not)	mark phelps on 11/17/2009


Does not work with Windows 7, Arcsoft will not run nor will it work with WMC.Works just fine with Vista using Windows Media Center. Arcsoft works but could be better. Meritline shipping is quick, even with Free shipping.
(137 people found your comment helpful, 115 did not)	Howard Brumley on 11/15/2009


It works charm, can search more channels than what I subscribed. Love it.
(137 people found your comment helpful, 115 did not)	Jack on 11/14/2009


Meritline.com Verified Buyer This little stick picks up the local digital stations just fine (assuming you have a decent antenna, if not visit youtube for how to make one out of coat hangers). It also works just great on my netbook which only has a 1.6 MHz processor! This is a good buy.
(135 people found your comment helpful, 115 did not)	Allen Shoemaker on 12/5/2009


Meritline.com Verified Buyer The USB stick works as mentioned. However the remote is piece of crap. It never worked. So, for the price I paid, the USB stick was the working thing. Antenna is not really useful. You may need a better Antenna.
(135 people found your comment helpful, 115 did not)	Venkata Karpuram on 12/5/2009


Meritline.com Verified Buyer Work as advertise.
(135 people found your comment helpful, 115 did not)	min gie liang on 12/5/2009


Meritline.com Verified Buyer the tuner im sure works perfect, but what lowers its quality is the antenna that is included, the reception is very very poor. i even bought a different antenna from meritline the reception was better than the previous but not like a regular tv antenna.
(135 people found your comment helpful, 115 did not)	francisco rivas on 12/5/2009


Meritline.com Verified Buyer Meritline service is good as always. The product is not that exciting -- * the included antenna is very very weak. I live in urban area and my TV can pick up a dozen OTA channels with no problem. This one got 2 when I put it near a window (0 otherwise). * with cable, it could register more or less all the 250+ channels, but almost all of them are "locked" -- I could only watch a community channel and a couple of gospel channels. Note that all the channels are clear QAM -- I don't have premium channels and don't use a set-top box. I would guess this may have something to do with "digital rights protection", but then what is the purpose of this product then? I only hope that this is an issue with the included software, otherwise the device is useless. It is not worth returning, but I don't much use of it.
(135 people found your comment helpful, 115 did not)	Yuzheng Ding on 12/5/2009


Meritline.com Verified Buyer Easy to install, but make sure your service packs are up to date. First time scan actually found stations my digital convertor did not see. Did find out that for some reason it would not recieve stations when I used a 10ft USB extension cable to try and move the antenna to a spot were I thought it would have better reception. Overall satisfied with the product.
(135 people found your comment helpful, 115 did not)	Bruce Gazdik on 12/5/2009


Meritline.com Verified Buyer The tuner works great. My netbook isn't quite up to receiving the HD channels, but I didn't really expect it to. Picks up all the local channels quite well, even with the dinky included antenna.
(135 people found your comment helpful, 115 did not)	Chad Johnson on 12/5/2009


Meritline.com Verified Buyer Works fine, antenna is not very sensitive, may be location; using an amplifed antenna receives many more stations.
(135 people found your comment helpful, 115 did not)	James D. Rose on 12/5/2009


Meritline.com Verified Buyer Work's well with my netbook. No problem changing channels using the remote.
(135 people found your comment helpful, 115 did not)	Robert Maddox on 12/5/2009


Meritline.com Verified Buyer have trieg to use on my hp vista after loading it selected sations that are not in my area and will not let me select the area or cable company i use i am trying again wish me luck"
(128 people found your comment helpful, 113 did not)	samuel hurtado on 2/8/2010


Meritline.com Verified Buyer Super! Love it!
(128 people found your comment helpful, 113 did not)	Tyree Barnes on 2/7/2010


Meritline.com Verified Buyer THE PRODUCTS I BUY THE NOT FUNCTIONS THE NOT WORKING WHEN CONNECT IN MY COMPUTER THE NOT HAPPEN NOTHING SO IS NOT GOOD WHAT THE SAY THE WORKING FOR SIGNAL FOR TV BUT I TRY THE FIND THE RIGHT PRODUCT .
(124 people found your comment helpful, 113 did not)	Juan Escamilla on 2/19/2010


Meritline.com Verified Buyer The device works well if you have a system that is a little more robust otherwise you will have issues I have tested the device on several systems the more robust the system the better the device worked. More Ram, faster Processor and fewer applications running made for a better experience. Otherwise you get reception that freezes, lags, et cetera.
(120 people found your comment helpful, 110 did not)	Bryan Christopher on 3/16/2010


Meritline.com Verified Buyer Great product...I was able to watch the Superbowl, I did upgrade the antenna to a powered UHF/VHF.
(120 people found your comment helpful, 110 did not)	Steven Herrera on 3/16/2010


Meritline.com Verified Buyer does not work
(120 people found your comment helpful, 110 did not)	Niel Westerholm on 3/15/2010


Meritline.com Verified Buyer This was my second "tuner stick" and I have been very pleased with both of them. I also have the Avertek version and all three perform identical. The Avertek cost twice as much as the Mygica. The only flaw found, the Mygica will not work with Windows 7 WMC. The Arcsoft is needed for Win 7.
(120 people found your comment helpful, 110 did not)	Howard Brumley on 3/15/2010


Meritline.com Verified Buyer Great product!
(120 people found your comment helpful, 110 did not)	Phillip Parker on 3/15/2010


Meritline.com Verified Buyer Delivery was reasonably fast- product- however, needs restart at times to get working. Been using it for a few weeks now
(120 people found your comment helpful, 110 did not)	Rohan Dharmapalan on 3/15/2010


Meritline.com Verified Buyer Really bad item. Managed to find only 1 channel. Waste of money.
(120 people found your comment helpful, 110 did not)	Alek Karpov on 3/15/2010


Meritline.com Verified Buyer Would not work with Time Warner cable, said the signal was scrambled. Returned for refund.
(120 people found your comment helpful, 110 did not)	sherman staffer on 3/15/2010


Meritline.com Verified Buyer Works great with windows 7 64 bit. The software works better than WMC. The remote is very handy and also works with Windows Media Center.
(119 people found your comment helpful, 107 did not)	James Ehlert on 3/25/2010


Meritline.com Verified Buyer Not bad but make sure your cpu is capable of 2.5 ghz or faster or HD channels will be choppy. My 1.8 ghz laptop can't process the HD signal fast enough. My 2.2 ghz desktop will play the channels fine but freezes up when trying to record. The instructions recommend a 3.0 ghz processor or faster in order to record and I would have to agree with that.
(119 people found your comment helpful, 108 did not)	Joe on 3/23/2010


Meritline.com Verified Buyer Seems to work okay. The included antenna pulled in some but not all of the available free digital channels. I then attached the cable instead and I get about 10 channels out of the 100 or so. I guess the cable company blocks some as they had a lock symbol. Overall for the price it was a good deal.
(119 people found your comment helpful, 110 did not)	Daryl Duvall on 3/19/2010


Meritline.com Verified Buyer good product. works with my acer netbook
(119 people found your comment helpful, 110 did not)	William Lobbins on 3/17/2010


Meritline.com Verified Buyer This product is NOT good , It doesnt work as it suppose to, NOt a good buy.
(118 people found your comment helpful, 107 did not)	Rajesh on 4/5/2010


Meritline.com Verified Buyer this item works just fine - so far haven't used much but plan to use with laptop while out on deck in warm weather.
(118 people found your comment helpful, 107 did not)	KEVIN MCCLURE on 4/4/2010


Meritline.com Verified Buyer Excellent product
(118 people found your comment helpful, 107 did not)	JC Demiranda on 4/4/2010


Meritline.com Verified Buyer Dident work at all for me. I tryed to scann it all differnt ways with no luck at all. Riverside calif has bad recption anyways but i thought i would give it a try.
(118 people found your comment helpful, 107 did not)	Donald Fisher on 4/3/2010


Meritline.com Verified Buyer Works well. Fast delivery.
(118 people found your comment helpful, 107 did not)	Tom Greico on 4/3/2010


Meritline.com Verified Buyer Horrible product. The USB stick barely loaded the software, and the reception only picked up one spanish channel, whereas my TV picks up nearly 40. The video quality was worse than 320X240. The return policy on these things stink - especially when you're buying things that only cost nearly the same price of the return shipping costs. I've bought a lot from Meritline, and probably still will, but will do so much more cautiously in the future. Would suggest the same for you.
(112 people found your comment helpful, 100 did not)	Seth Lytle on 4/7/2010


Meritline.com Verified Buyer So far unable to install software on xp laptop and get it working. I will check product website when I GET A CHANCE
(111 people found your comment helpful, 95 did not)	Edwin Tharp on 4/19/2010


Meritline.com Verified Buyer Nice idea, very portable. I replaced the antenna hoping to get more channels (I live in NYC) but I only get two consistently. Didn't have much luck with the software but Media Center seems to work ok. I don't bother with the remote. Might take it with me and use it on my netbook, hopefully more channels elsewhere.
(111 people found your comment helpful, 96 did not)	John Darnell on 4/18/2010


Meritline.com Verified Buyer Works beautifully, picks up 17 HD/digital channels. The software disc that came in package was junk, went to website where software is available for download. Still worth the price, Thanks.
(111 people found your comment helpful, 96 did not)	Steve Hauser on 4/18/2010


Meritline.com Verified Buyer piece of junk. picked up one channel from hundreds took 1/2 hr to download stations. playback is not good either. don't waste you money on this
(111 people found your comment helpful, 96 did not)	Abraham on 4/17/2010


Meritline.com Verified Buyer excellent reception,picture and recording.cant crank up the sound.Worth the money and plan to get two more for my other computers.
(108 people found your comment helpful, 93 did not)	James Nault on 4/25/2010


Meritline.com Verified Buyer I must give this product a poor rating simply because of it's poor advertisement, instructions and spec sheet. My machine has enough power to handle the requirements for standard definition. However, this must me broadcast in standard def, not my recording options. Therefore, I am unable to record any of the major networks primary channels, as they are all broadcast in High Def. Had Mygica or Meritline gave a better description of the requirements I would not have made the purchase. As for now, I will hold on to the recorder, but I will not be able to us it until I upgrade my pc. (Not for a while) I'm very disappointed with the entire transaction.
(104 people found your comment helpful, 87 did not)	James Kelley on 4/27/2010


Meritline.com Verified Buyer Great product. It beats buying a separate TV.
(102 people found your comment helpful, 82 did not)	Jim Kozak on 5/11/2010


Meritline.com Verified Buyer hmmm. doesnt work with vista. i'm pretty tech savvy. frustrating. dont buy for vista.
(102 people found your comment helpful, 82 did not)	dk on 5/10/2010


Meritline.com Verified Buyer I have more than 80 available channels includng 5 HD channnels. But this tuner can only find the 5 HD channels. I try to put the tuner in Windows XP and Windows 7, neither can find more channel.
(101 people found your comment helpful, 82 did not)	Zongfang Lin on 5/16/2010


Meritline.com Verified Buyer Excellent value and quality. Bought two and gave one as a gift.
(101 people found your comment helpful, 82 did not)	MILTON ERDFARB on 5/15/2010


Meritline.com Verified Buyer A poor product in my opinion. The software found no chanels although clear QAM is available where we live. Technical support was responsive, but not at all helpful - they indicated the results I obtained were attributable to absence of QAM. Product returned and replaced with another brand which works quite well.
(96 people found your comment helpful, 77 did not)	William Wasserman on 5/22/2010


Meritline.com Verified Buyer doesn't work well. very disappointed
(96 people found your comment helpful, 78 did not)	Nishant H Paul on 5/21/2010


Meritline.com Verified Buyer woeked great for one hour, then died
(95 people found your comment helpful, 72 did not)	Erich Dreyer on 5/30/2010


Meritline.com Verified Buyer No comady cetral!
(95 people found your comment helpful, 73 did not)	Christian Main on 5/28/2010


Meritline.com Verified Buyer Waiting for 5 weeks on ArcSoft support to make their software work. It scans channels but does not display anything on desktop. Works OK on notebook
(95 people found your comment helpful, 74 did not)	Gary Brown on 5/27/2010


Meritline.com Verified Buyer Works well but needs a larger antenna to receive all the stations in my area
(95 people found your comment helpful, 74 did not)	Alan Frey on 5/27/2010


Meritline.com Verified Buyer If you own a net book this is a must have. It's great yo have when you are traveling. I recommend in replacing the antennae. You will not be disappointed.
(95 people found your comment helpful, 75 did not)	Stephen Ng on 5/25/2010


Meritline.com Verified Buyer It appears to work well. I am impressed with the quality of the picture. Unfortunately, the antenna leaves something to be desired. I will have to look into a Radio Shack antenna.
(95 people found your comment helpful, 77 did not)	James White on 5/24/2010


Meritline.com Verified Buyer Absolutely worthless. I have been getting television over the air for three years on my HD TV. I pickup 36 chanels, most I would never watch, but I could not get a single channel with piece of sh*t from my home or office. I didn't even bother to return it. Wasn't worth my time or postage. Without a doubt I think it's the antenna is to blame.
(95 people found your comment helpful, 77 did not)	WCS on 5/24/2010


Meritline.com Verified Buyer Tuner works as specified.. good price, good deal
(95 people found your comment helpful, 77 did not)	Angus G Hepburn on 5/23/2010


Meritline.com Verified Buyer Great Product. I would recommend to friends.
(95 people found your comment helpful, 77 did not)	Brajesh Lacoul on 5/23/2010


Meritline.com Verified Buyer Tuner works great with win7 64 on a Intel core2 2.2gig laptop, uses about 30% of the cpu to watch hdtv live. Did not try any software provided except maybe the driver. The mini antenna is ok in a strong signal area. The tuner appears to more sensitive than a full pci card I have. Over all a great deal.
(95 people found your comment helpful, 77 did not)	DEAN GEORGE on 5/23/2010


Meritline.com Verified Buyer Feels like the cheap piece it is. The antenna is garbage, but the tuner works like expected and the remote is a nice bonus. Only recommended if on sale
(95 people found your comment helpful, 77 did not)	Matthew Reardon on 5/23/2010


Meritline.com Verified Buyer Nice product. Easy setup, and ready to pick up comcast HD signal.
(95 people found your comment helpful, 77 did not)	Jianming Zhu on 5/23/2010


Meritline.com Verified Buyer I could only get 3-4 channels with both with included software and windows media center. It's not worth it. Total waste of money.
(95 people found your comment helpful, 77 did not)	Moeen Arif on 5/23/2010


Meritline.com Verified Buyer Junk Product and poor customer service
(95 people found your comment helpful, 77 did not)	VIJAI SANKAR S SADASIVAM on 5/23/2010


Meritline.com Verified Buyer Well... it does what it says. It doesn't claim to work with windows media center, just Windows 7. But even then, the software is really dated and I was never able to get the remote to work. I wish I had spent the extra money on a better tuner.
(95 people found your comment helpful, 77 did not)	Chris on 5/23/2010


Meritline.com Verified Buyer The tuner was not very high quality and did not work. Pros: The software provided was easy to use. Cons: I could not get a signal from Digital Cable. I tried multiple cable lines to no avail. After speaking with the manufacturer, I returned the product. Try at your own risk.
(95 people found your comment helpful, 77 did not)	James Lilie on 5/22/2010


Meritline.com Verified Buyer Excellent product. Just what I ordered.
(95 people found your comment helpful, 77 did not)	Pedro DaCosta on 5/22/2010


Meritline.com Verified Buyer I have been having issues with using this tuner in GB-PVR. The driver crashes many times and I get 0 byte recordings. I am still waiting for an updated driver, but as of 5-22-2010 it is still a year old for windows 7 64 bit. I hope they correct this soon, as it seems to do a good job when the driver doesn't crash. It may be a problem with GB-PVR, but I think not since it just uses the same DBA drivers windows media center uses.
(95 people found your comment helpful, 77 did not)	Jonathan Mahan on 5/22/2010


Meritline.com Verified Buyer Works well.
(95 people found your comment helpful, 77 did not)	Tzongwen Huang on 5/22/2010


Meritline.com Verified Buyer Very nice tuner...easy set up and works great. Fast shipping.
(94 people found your comment helpful, 72 did not)	Greg Miller on 6/6/2010


Meritline.com Verified Buyer Product did not work for me.On "Basic" cable it only picked up local HD cHannels, Music Only Channels, and WGN. It is not ClearQAM as advertised.
(93 people found your comment helpful, 72 did not)	David Newkirk on 6/14/2010


Meritline.com Verified Buyer External Antenna is useless. Doesn't receive any signal from this. Always need the cable connection for this to work
(93 people found your comment helpful, 72 did not)	Nagendra Hande on 6/14/2010


Meritline.com Verified Buyer It seems to do basically what it was advertised to do. I am using Windows Media Center with Windows Vista Ultimate. The driver installation to accomplish this was more painful than it needed to be. Also, the remote-control functions aren't compatible with Media Center, but I wasn't expecting them to be. On a scale of "Junk" to "Awesome", I give it a "Meh".
(93 people found your comment helpful, 72 did not)	Craig on 6/13/2010


Meritline.com Verified Buyer Its alright. Only HD. Beware.
(93 people found your comment helpful, 72 did not)	Karch McCoy on 6/13/2010


Meritline.com Verified Buyer Does not work with OTA channels in my area. Not worth
(93 people found your comment helpful, 72 did not)	Fayyaz Poonawala on 6/12/2010


Meritline.com Verified Buyer I love this little thing. I kinda rigged the antenna with a metal folding chair (low class, I know) and now the reception is perfect. It was good before that, I just hate hiccups. I cannot speak for other OS's, but this works with Vista Ultimate's Media Center.
(93 people found your comment helpful, 72 did not)	Douglas Gerdes on 6/12/2010


Meritline.com Verified Buyer I was very disappointed with this. I have tried every fix, every alternate way, and still it will not work. I am sorry i ever bought it. I am running a Windows 7 64 system.
(93 people found your comment helpful, 72 did not)	kate willet on 6/12/2010


Meritline.com Verified Buyer Tuner worked great on vista 32 bit and win 7x64bit laptops. Meritline shipped the item fast. I have ordered 3 of them now.
(93 people found your comment helpful, 72 did not)	Paul Meinke on 6/12/2010


Meritline.com Verified Buyer Doesn't work most of the time. Works 1 in every 20 times I try using the QAM tuner.
(93 people found your comment helpful, 72 did not)	Brad Nadler on 6/12/2010


Meritline.com Verified Buyer doess not do what it says. too mcuh software to install.. waste of time and money
(93 people found your comment helpful, 72 did not)	Kiran Desai on 6/12/2010


Meritline.com Verified Buyer I had really high expectation for this item but it turned out to be a bit different. I cannot view all channels that my comcast cable company offers. I just get random channels. I got this to record all the world cup games on my computer and it's working great! Too bad I can't get HBO, SHOWTIME, CINEMAX and all the other channels my company offers. Don't think you'll get all the channels because you'll be very dissapointed. Great price tho.
(87 people found your comment helpful, 63 did not)	JG on 6/26/2010


Meritline.com Verified Buyer Worth the money. Pretty basic. Antenna may not be big/strong enough to pick up many channels inside. Software is adequate.
(87 people found your comment helpful, 63 did not)	James A Bryce on 6/26/2010


Meritline.com Verified Buyer Works good.
(87 people found your comment helpful, 66 did not)	Y Nguyen on 6/23/2010


Meritline.com Verified Buyer It doesn't work
(87 people found your comment helpful, 66 did not)	Tommy on 6/23/2010


Meritline.com Verified Buyer Good value for money. Receives all HD channels
(87 people found your comment helpful, 66 did not)	Yogesh Malhotra on 6/22/2010


Meritline.com Verified Buyer 1) No NTSC tuning capabilities 2) Dead slow tuning of available ATSC channels (Approx 70 to 80 mts) 3) Does not pick up Cable channels via Windows 7 Media center 4) Must install provided software to tune channels 5)Don't buy, you will regret it. Cheap but worthless.
(87 people found your comment helpful, 66 did not)	Robby Patel on 6/22/2010


Meritline.com Verified Buyer I have not been able to get it to work. All the channels have a lock beside them.
(87 people found your comment helpful, 66 did not)	Alan Metz on 6/21/2010


Meritline.com Verified Buyer It works, but I cannot get any channels through the air. Going to buy a bigger antenna to see if I can pull anything.
(87 people found your comment helpful, 66 did not)	Jon Klingler on 6/17/2010


Meritline.com Verified Buyer The Tuner did not work initially. Reinstalled driver. Started working. But then again stopped working...
(86 people found your comment helpful, 62 did not)	Gaurav Gupta on 6/27/2010


Meritline.com Verified Buyer This is awesome product, I really recommend it to everyone
(85 people found your comment helpful, 60 did not)	Amin on 7/11/2010


Meritline.com Verified Buyer Good HD tuner. Does what it says except antenna. Tested with differnt antenna Artec (also from Meritline) and I was able to get almost 30 more of-the-air channels
(85 people found your comment helpful, 60 did not)	Thomas on 7/5/2010


Meritline.com Verified Buyer The usb stick gets a great picture and ties in great to Windows Media Center. I can't get the remote that comes with it to work at all.
(85 people found your comment helpful, 60 did not)	Daniel Frederickson on 7/5/2010


Meritline.com Verified Buyer PRO: basic functions work. Pictures are clear. Inexpensive. CON: Antenna is weak. Won't work while it is moving, like in a car.
(85 people found your comment helpful, 60 did not)	Zhi Feng on 7/5/2010


Meritline.com Verified Buyer Just cheap and would not pick up TV channels. Save your money.
(85 people found your comment helpful, 60 did not)	bobo on 7/5/2010


Meritline.com Verified Buyer Works great on Windows 7 Media Center. The little antenna actually works pretty good. No complaints.
(85 people found your comment helpful, 60 did not)	reynaldo cruz on 7/5/2010


Meritline.com Verified Buyer Excellent with winXP Pro. Easy install. Great picture. Remote works but not impressive. I use OLDER total media 3.0 less fluff. Cox QAM channels detected but blocked. I use the antenna included receive about 20 channels. I little antenna is tucked on the support stand my dell monitor. Have not tried the av input yet.
(85 people found your comment helpful, 60 did not)	chris on 7/5/2010


Meritline.com Verified Buyer item can work on windows7, however WMC doen'st find the usb stick. Also, only two hd channel of comcast can be found. I am in Illinois.
(85 people found your comment helpful, 60 did not)	gang chen on 7/4/2010


Meritline.com Verified Buyer Good price
(85 people found your comment helpful, 60 did not)	Ezekiel Wan on 7/4/2010


Meritline.com Verified Buyer A great little thing. Driver and application software installation will take a while. After that, it's easy to use. HDTV quality if great, so is the recording feature. The remote control could be improved because you have to position the adaptor's IR receiver window facing you. Overall, it's great for its price.
(84 people found your comment helpful, 59 did not)	Shimin Luo on 7/15/2010


Meritline.com Verified Buyer It works very well with either the enclosed software or Windows Media Center (my choice). The Usb adapter seems to overheat after a short period of use and then the signal is gone. I only used it to watch the world cup at my workplace and it served the purpose. Good buy, though!
(83 people found your comment helpful, 58 did not)	Gabriel Duque on 8/2/2010


Meritline.com Verified Buyer Installed with no problem. but could not find any station, even after i used my indoor antenna, contacted customer service, no response. will not recommend.
(83 people found your comment helpful, 58 did not)	Truman Du on 8/1/2010


Meritline.com Verified Buyer Sensitive Tuner, works well.
(83 people found your comment helpful, 58 did not)	Bill Montano on 8/1/2010


Meritline.com Verified Buyer great product at a great price!!
(83 people found your comment helpful, 58 did not)	reddex l washington on 7/27/2010


Meritline.com Verified Buyer Tuner works great with Windows 7 & WMC. Got 16 channels very clear. Good value.
(83 people found your comment helpful, 59 did not)	Pete Holanda on 7/27/2010


Meritline.com Verified Buyer probably a good tuner.. but it has no drivers for windows 7 64bit so I never could get it to work. Even though it says it will work with that operating system.
(83 people found your comment helpful, 59 did not)	Steven Jones on 7/19/2010


Meritline.com Verified Buyer This product is a piece of junk. I returned it to get a full refund. It does not work the way it is listed. Could only find 3 channels when it was plugged into basic cable which has 76 channels.
(83 people found your comment helpful, 59 did not)	Kelan Kline on 7/17/2010


Meritline.com Verified Buyer great product. love it. the HD decoding quality is good
(82 people found your comment helpful, 56 did not)	Nguyen Mai on 8/2/2010


Meritline.com Verified Buyer Installed well, works well in appartments
(82 people found your comment helpful, 56 did not)	Ekaterina Shavlovsky on 8/2/2010


Meritline.com Verified Buyer Does the job!
(80 people found your comment helpful, 55 did not)	James Kubecki on 8/3/2010


Meritline.com Verified Buyer STILL TRYING TO MAKE THIS WORK WITH WINDOWS VISTA 32BIT.
(80 people found your comment helpful, 55 did not)	Georg Maxie on 8/2/2010


Meritline.com Verified Buyer BEWARE - this product sucks - the software will not complete a channel scan, it crashes. totally useless.
(80 people found your comment helpful, 56 did not)	Bill Daniels on 8/2/2010


Meritline.com Verified Buyer i would not buy this again. i thought i'd be getting lots of channels, but i only got a view channels. i sent it back, even got an rma, but never saw my refund.
(78 people found your comment helpful, 54 did not)	Nichole Taylor on 8/5/2010


Meritline.com Verified Buyer This tuner works, however, the software constantly freezes and loses the channels... even after they've been programmed in. It does the same using Windows Media Center. If you're a very patient person, the tuner is worth the money. I'm not patient, so I got too frustrated.
(78 people found your comment helpful, 55 did not)	Carlos Negron Jr on 8/3/2010


Meritline.com Verified Buyer Works great under WinXP (though the included software is unimpressive to say the least). Needs a decent processor and memory to run smoothly. Good luck getting it to work under Linux though. There are drivers available from the linuxtv project which can allegedly be tweaked to work with it, but I never had any luck with them.
(77 people found your comment helpful, 54 did not)	Mark Treadwell on 8/23/2010


Meritline.com Verified Buyer Was very good as to reception
(77 people found your comment helpful, 54 did not)	Harry Potter on 8/21/2010


Meritline.com Verified Buyer It worked as expected, even the clear QAM. I will use this in my Laptop in my RV. It also worked in the PCMCIA USB2 adapter in the old Toshiba laptop running XP. Great Price too. The supplied software tells you the station credentials. It locked up at 200+ stations but worked below that. I am mad that this thing seems to get stations my over priced Sony TV seems to miss.
(77 people found your comment helpful, 54 did not)	Harry Bunting on 8/14/2010


Meritline.com Verified Buyer Unit runs well
(77 people found your comment helpful, 54 did not)	Joseph Sigal on 8/13/2010


Meritline.com Verified Buyer Very affordable product and the item was shipped expeditiously. I would be more than happy to use Meritline.com in the future for my next purchase. Thanks for the great deal!
(77 people found your comment helpful, 54 did not)	Maxine Mirowitz on 8/13/2010


Meritline.com Verified Buyer Installation went smoothly. I receive no channels with the cheap antenna provided. I purchased another antenna and only pick up one station. Unit gets very hot. Don't waste the money on this.
(77 people found your comment helpful, 54 did not)	Donald Sopko on 8/13/2010


Meritline.com Verified Buyer Bought the Mygica A680B USB HDTV Tuner in July 2010. The hardware itself is mediocre. Catches most of the regular off the air TV signals. The only subpar is the software that comes with it. Because I use it on Windows XP, the software is a little bit stiff...
(77 people found your comment helpful, 54 did not)	Eli UneS on 8/13/2010


Meritline.com Verified Buyer Actually works well, but you need a strong signal for the supplied antenna to receive. The software is really usable and useful with Windows 7. You need a lot of disk space to record HD video. Not a bad buy for the price!
(77 people found your comment helpful, 54 did not)	D. JASON on 8/10/2010


Meritline.com Verified Buyer Terrible product, do not buy it. I should have read the reviews more closely. Does not work with windows 7 64 bit. I tried for hours to have it recognized by the system and it doesn't work. I tried to uninstall and reinstall drivers, I tried to let windows install drivers and nothing worked. Do not waste your time or money.
(77 people found your comment helpful, 54 did not)	Michael McHale on 8/10/2010


Meritline.com Verified Buyer Good value.
(77 people found your comment helpful, 54 did not)	James Mills on 8/10/2010


Meritline.com Verified Buyer Pros: With a better digital antenna, you can get decent channels and pictures. Remote controller is nice but small. Price is good. Cons: It's a cheap China-made product. The side covers came off first time I tried to unhook from the USB port. It gets extremely hot. And the software has issues also, it freezes up from time to time and locks; that is, it's difficult to even kill the program.
(77 people found your comment helpful, 54 did not)	mk on 8/10/2010


Meritline.com Verified Buyer This Mygica A680B was delivered and was DOA. I tried it on multiple operating systems and multiple different computers and it was completely dead. I sent Meritline a message asking what to do and they never responded. I won't buy from Meritline again unless this is corrected.
(76 people found your comment helpful, 52 did not)	Charles Hutchins on 9/7/2010


Meritline.com Verified Buyer Great deal, great product!
(76 people found your comment helpful, 54 did not)	obed rodriquez on 9/3/2010


Meritline.com Verified Buyer Excellent value for money. Got 2 tuners, one PCI and one USB, for under $50. Have been working great with Media Center. Very happy!
(76 people found your comment helpful, 54 did not)	R S on 8/29/2010


Meritline.com Verified Buyer Worked for about a day. Then I couldn't get it to work again with Windows Media Center. I tried the packaged software, but no luck. I ended up contacting Mygica's customer support and ultimately sent it back to Meritline. The return process was easy and prompt. I did read all the reviews and took the chance. Unfortunately, it didn't work for me. I installed it on a quad core i7 computer with Win. 7 ultimate.
(76 people found your comment helpful, 54 did not)	Gary Powers on 8/29/2010


Meritline.com Verified Buyer can't receive signals with attena
(76 people found your comment helpful, 54 did not)	jingying xie on 8/28/2010


Meritline.com Verified Buyer nice transaction, quick shipment
(76 people found your comment helpful, 54 did not)	Yu Kuang on 8/28/2010


Meritline.com Verified Buyer good product. NO problems setting up with windows 7 media center
(76 people found your comment helpful, 54 did not)	ram on 8/28/2010


Meritline.com Verified Buyer Works well. But, gets warm, if not hot to the touch.
(76 people found your comment helpful, 54 did not)	Bernard Falkin on 8/28/2010


Meritline.com Verified Buyer I bet this thing would work well if I had a TV station close enough to my house to get a signal but I live in the country and get nothing. It is really easy to install and setup but that is as far as I got with it.
(75 people found your comment helpful, 49 did not)	Lauren Vonderlin on 9/21/2010


Meritline.com Verified Buyer Very good.
(75 people found your comment helpful, 50 did not)	John on 9/20/2010


Meritline.com Verified Buyer Looks real nice but I have not been able to get one station on it to this point. Maybe me or maybe the product.
(75 people found your comment helpful, 50 did not)	Rich Bull on 9/20/2010


Meritline.com Verified Buyer Software that comes with the tuner is junk. You'll have to email tech support to get the latest version that does work. If you going to use this with your cable system, you most likely won't get more than a dozen channels that aren't encoded.
(75 people found your comment helpful, 50 did not)	Bill N on 9/19/2010


Meritline.com Verified Buyer Works great with Windows Media player in Windows Vista and Windows 7. Tried both 32-bit and 64-bit. Included software and remote control are worthless. Included antenna is OK, but better to connect to QAM cable, roof antenna, or better "rabbit ears". If all you want to do is time-shift broadcast TV this device works just fine. You can record on your desktop machine in your office/study, and share it out to your laptop and watch on the porch (using Windows Media Player).
(75 people found your comment helpful, 50 did not)	James Prystal on 9/19/2010


Meritline.com Verified Buyer Works as described, no complaint (other than it's not free).
(75 people found your comment helpful, 50 did not)	chitaou tsai on 9/19/2010


Meritline.com Verified Buyer Works good if connected to a HDTV full size antenna rather than the small finger size one that comes with it. If you have good reception in the room this item will do it's job. Picked up 23 stations with it.
(75 people found your comment helpful, 50 did not)	Maureen Williams on 9/19/2010


Meritline.com Verified Buyer It never worked correctly-It gave me a BSOD on one PC and a TV screen that was 2 in by 2 in on another PC I regret purchasing this item
(75 people found your comment helpful, 51 did not)	Lawrence Reich on 9/17/2010


Meritline.com Verified Buyer The Mygica tuner is indistinguishable from the three more expensive Hauppauge tuners I already had installed on my Windows 7 home theater system. Outstanding value for the money.
(75 people found your comment helpful, 51 did not)	Robert Burt on 9/17/2010


Meritline.com Verified Buyer I havent figured out the sound yet but it does stream. Was watching television on my puter.
(75 people found your comment helpful, 51 did not)	shane delass on 9/17/2010


Meritline.com Verified Buyer Works great! Good product!
(75 people found your comment helpful, 51 did not)	Renqi Huang on 9/17/2010


Meritline.com Verified Buyer Works ok, does not receive as many stations as my other tuner (13 vs 20 digital channels) but otherwise does the job.
(67 people found your comment helpful, 43 did not)	john stanford on 9/24/2010


Meritline.com Verified Buyer Product did not work with Win 7 as advertised. But return was simple and free, so overall the product was bad but service was great.
(66 people found your comment helpful, 41 did not)	Robert Jackowski on 10/5/2010


Meritline.com Verified Buyer Poor quality. Does not work with Windows 7 Media Center..
(66 people found your comment helpful, 41 did not)	William Cahill on 10/4/2010


Meritline.com Verified Buyer I love this tuner its so simple i have windows 7 so i did not care to us the software that it came with because with 7 its plug and play really easy to and i love it
(66 people found your comment helpful, 42 did not)	Chris walpert on 10/1/2010


Meritline.com Verified Buyer good price & does what it said, easy to get WMC to recognize & use it. I was hoping to be able to get my analog cable signals also which I couldn't but I knew that was going to be gamble & I don't blame maker. It works fine w the digital over the air signal, including HD shows. best price I could find for a USB HDTV tuner
(65 people found your comment helpful, 40 did not)	Louis Camden on 10/17/2010


Meritline.com Verified Buyer The tuner is a good buy and came with nice software, although I was going to use it with Windows 7 Media Center. The tuner did not work for me. It allowed me to pick up a third of the channels and said all but 1 were locked. Maybe it had to do with encription or compatability but I don't know. Meritline was understanding and allowed for me to return it, at cost to me of course. It's cool, cheap, but a chance you might have to take. It didn't work for me, but good luck and I hope it works for you if you get it.
(65 people found your comment helpful, 40 did not)	Christopher Wiles on 10/12/2010


Meritline.com Verified Buyer The product is not working.
(65 people found your comment helpful, 41 did not)	Raghu Prasad on 10/8/2010


Meritline.com Verified Buyer did not do what i needed it to do. could be my fault for not understanding what it is meant to do, but i could only get a handful of channels, not the full listing.
(62 people found your comment helpful, 40 did not)	Justin Chambers on 10/26/2010


Meritline.com Verified Buyer This HDTV tuner is a decent product for the price. HOWEVER, I did have troubles with it and only works on a limited level. I didn't try the provided antenna b/c I assumed it was worthless. I tried to scan clear QAM cable channels through Time Warner and had problems. The program would crash during the scan, plus it would show different channels each time. I couldn't get the channels I wanted that show on my TV. I have XP without Media Center, so primarily used the provided Arcsoft software. I tried other programs with no success. I believe it may be DVB based QAM, not ATSC and that may be the problem in the States. Not totally sure. The remote worked, but only if I was 3 feet away, so pretty useless. Overall, only buy if you only want digital HD channels over the airwaves and have a good antenna. Otherwise, you will be disappointed.
(61 people found your comment helpful, 36 did not)	Ryan McWilliams on 11/8/2010


Meritline.com Verified Buyer It works well. Depending on how good the reception is in your area you might need a better antenna. The software is easy to set up and intuitive. A good deal for the $15 I paid for it.
(61 people found your comment helpful, 36 did not)	Roman Lopez on 11/8/2010


Meritline.com Verified Buyer Works GREAT just follow the instructions provided. Like all other reviews, the provided antenna is pretty much useless. Get a decent antenna and you are good to go!!! Wish there was FM tuner capabilities included as well. Perhaps an upgrade?
(61 people found your comment helpful, 36 did not)	Jeffrey Gaidosh on 11/7/2010


Meritline.com Verified Buyer The tuner had one little problem, the cable to the antenna comes and goes, but the price was so right it doesn't matter. If I get tired of jiggling the cable I can get another antenna cheap enough. I get 38 channels which is as good as anyone's TV..........Rick
(61 people found your comment helpful, 37 did not)	Richard Miller on 11/7/2010


Meritline.com Verified Buyer Could not get it to work. Tried downloading the drivers from Meritline web site, but still not recognized by Windows 7 Media Center.
(61 people found your comment helpful, 37 did not)	John Lybrand on 11/7/2010


Meritline.com Verified Buyer This tuner did NOT work with Windows 7 Media Center. It did work with the included Total Media software. It did not get all the channels on my cable TV system.
(61 people found your comment helpful, 37 did not)	James Tidwell on 11/7/2010


Meritline.com Verified Buyer Overall the product was pretty good once I got it working. However the disc that was sent with would load but the driver did not seem to work so I had to go to a website to download the proper drivers.
(61 people found your comment helpful, 37 did not)	Adam VandeHei on 10/30/2010


Meritline.com Verified Buyer I like this product, but it has its limitations. It gives clear pictures on my 15.6 inch laptop monitor. I typically use it from within a coffee shop with wireless. This is in San Diego. It typically will get several channels, with strong or adequate signal, but not all that would be available with an outside antenna. The small antenna and short lead is probably the primary limitation. So, one should expect uneven results from place to place. Where you orient yourself would probably effect which signals you get. If you plan to use it from one primary location, then take effort to connect it to an adequate antenna. It takes its time scanning through the available channels.
(60 people found your comment helpful, 36 did not)	Stephen Goldfarb on 11/8/2010


Meritline.com Verified Buyer Ok product. You definitely need amplified antenna because I think the internal sensor is weak. Even though my tv was picking up channels, the tuner wasn't picking up all. So if you buy it, buy an amplified antenna too.
(60 people found your comment helpful, 36 did not)	Omair Jafri on 11/8/2010


Meritline.com Verified Buyer brings in HD channels great though did not pull basic cable channels :( Good product though software is nice for recording.
(60 people found your comment helpful, 36 did not)	Allon Ben-Ami on 11/8/2010


Meritline.com Verified Buyer I can not pick up TV channel on cable TV. Only get music chanels. Works okay with little antenna but only gets four channels. Meritline continues to be an excellent source with good prices and fast shipping.
(60 people found your comment helpful, 36 did not)	Ralph Tiffin on 11/8/2010


Meritline.com Verified Buyer For me I can't get it work I contact Meriteline Customer service They helped me to return it I pay the return parcel about $2-3 I got my money back within 3 weeks I feel a bit disappoint for this item It is cheap but I can't get it work Meritelite customer service is great
(59 people found your comment helpful, 36 did not)	Pat, Montgomery on 11/10/2010


Meritline.com Verified Buyer Very good product at great price.
(59 people found your comment helpful, 36 did not)	Sheri Clemons on 11/9/2010


Meritline.com Verified Buyer I hooked this to an outside antenna and it works great. The recording features work as advertised and are easy to use.
(59 people found your comment helpful, 36 did not)	Lawrence Jones on 11/9/2010


Meritline.com Verified Buyer This tuner works well for over-the-air broadcasts, but is terrible at locating and tuning to clear-QAM channels. Media Center's scan did not find any clear-QAM channels. The software shipped with the unit did, but could not later tune to them reliably.
(59 people found your comment helpful, 36 did not)	Ken Wallace on 11/9/2010


Meritline.com Verified Buyer Great seller. Happy with the product. Thank You!
(59 people found your comment helpful, 36 did not)	Arkadi Gassak on 11/9/2010


Meritline.com Verified Buyer Great product for the price with almost all features that you may need. The only thing that i would add is a pause function when viewing shows. My old tv tuner had that function which allowed me to pause (it started to record)and rewind the show i was watching.
(59 people found your comment helpful, 36 did not)	Max on 11/9/2010


Meritline.com Verified Buyer Works well but only in a Windows environment and only with the included software. A bargain at the price if you can use it.
(59 people found your comment helpful, 36 did not)	Charles White on 11/9/2010


Meritline.com Verified Buyer It worked ok when i hooked it up to my antenna, but the software iterfeared with other video software and disabled it. I was pretty frustrated... I eventually had to take it off.
(59 people found your comment helpful, 36 did not)	Ricky Stone on 11/9/2010


Meritline.com Verified Buyer works as expected. HD on 64bit Win7
(59 people found your comment helpful, 36 did not)	James on 11/9/2010


Meritline.com Verified Buyer Ehh. it sorta works does it work great ehh. guess it all depends on what stations that are in your area. but based on what those webpages say i'm supposed to have about 1/2 dozen or so stations but i barely got a station or 2 to work. it does work though sorta LOL
(59 people found your comment helpful, 36 did not)	Roy Rubeo on 11/8/2010


Meritline.com Verified Buyer I have only used actual built in cable cards before. This USB one is alright. I gave up on the included software and just went with the windows media center option. Not sure if it is my cable provider or the mygica, but it only recognizes a few channels.
(59 people found your comment helpful, 36 did not)	Justin McClure on 11/8/2010


Meritline.com Verified Buyer best price quality mix!
(59 people found your comment helpful, 36 did not)	Jose Baboun on 11/8/2010


Meritline.com Verified Buyer Hooked it up to a dead cable and works fine.
(59 people found your comment helpful, 36 did not)	Jerry on 11/8/2010


Meritline.com Verified Buyer This thing works great. Love it.
(59 people found your comment helpful, 36 did not)	Jerry on 11/8/2010


Meritline.com Verified Buyer I searched everywhere and the prices at Meritline could not be beat. My parcel arrived as scheduled and my antenna is working perfectly. I am very happy I found this Company. I would recommend it to anyone I know.
(56 people found your comment helpful, 33 did not)	Aida Perez on 11/24/2010


Meritline.com Verified Buyer Good seller. A+++. Thanks
(56 people found your comment helpful, 33 did not)	van tran on 11/21/2010


Meritline.com Verified Buyer Good product. Simple installation and configuration with Windows Media Center. Software that comes with the stick is pretty lame I removed that software and only installed the driver from the CD. The application on the CD wouldn't find half the channels Media Center did. Good video quality. I did have problems with Media Center and using two tuners, I had to install one on a different computer to be able to record two shows at one time. No big deal just transfer the video to the computer hooked to the TV over my network. I would recommend this product using cable, don't know about the antenna
(56 people found your comment helpful, 33 did not)	B Bexell on 11/16/2010


Meritline.com Verified Buyer Does not work!! I plug it into my Windows 7 machine, hook up the cable and it doesn't work! The channels start to load, takes about an hour, but then like half way through the program freezes and my computer tells me it must be ended. And no matter how many times I try it it always does this. I don't want to call customer service because it costs $10 which is a fairly major fraction of what I piad for the thing!
(56 people found your comment helpful, 33 did not)	Cindy Godshall on 11/16/2010


Meritline.com Verified Buyer acceptable, the key is to get good receiption, you will need to have an excellent antena
(56 people found your comment helpful, 33 did not)	Vincent Lee on 11/16/2010


Meritline.com Verified Buyer Product works fine, I guess the antenna could be better. But for the price you cant beat it. I noticed that this stick also works with Windows Media Center.
(56 people found your comment helpful, 34 did not)	Wojtek Kozakiewicz on 11/15/2010


Meritline.com Verified Buyer In general, works well for me as an OTA ATSC tuner. Can't comment on cable. Works with BeyondTV. The only issue is that every now and then, it seems to lose the signal and programs don't get recorded. This is our 2nd tuner for BeyondTV so I can't be positive it's the Mygica vs. some interaction between the drivers for 2 different tuners, BeyondTv, or whatever.
(52 people found your comment helpful, 31 did not)	Barry Saver on 12/14/2010


Meritline.com Verified Buyer Works with win7
(41 people found your comment helpful, 14 did not)	Darryl Carstensen on 3/8/2011


Meritline.com Verified Buyer Hardware works well. Good HDTV quality and has better sensitivity than my AverMedia HDTV USB dongle, so it receives more TV stations. It generates a little more heat. But the bundled software is a different story. It froze when the number of stations scanned reached certain number (~200), had to kill the process to get PC back, and channel list editing is a disaster; no scrolling of channel list, has to click-by-click to reach the channel you want. Imagine that to scroll thru 200 channels.
(39 people found your comment helpful, 8 did not)	An HDTV viewer on 3/26/2011


Meritline.com Verified Buyer I bought this to watch cable TV on my laptop. Did not work! -Sent it back for refund. (Cost me $4.50 at the post office, so I'm not happy.) Expanding a little: First, tried it with included software, then with Windows Media Center (Vista). Neither could recognize device as a TV tuner.
(35 people found your comment helpful, 8 did not)	Jerry Bridgman on 3/29/2011


Meritline.com Verified Buyer Way too many problems, had to call and email support, finally gave up.
(34 people found your comment helpful, 8 did not)	PAUL TUTHILL on 4/8/2011


Meritline.com Verified Buyer Easy software installation. Antenna picked up free channels but not all. My guess is it depends on your location or placement of the antenna. scanning for available channel is a little slow. Overall, I'm happy with its function and value.
(33 people found your comment helpful, 8 did not)	Louis Tran on 4/8/2011


Meritline.com Verified Buyer Got a defective one, had to pay for return. Software messed up my Win7 mediaplayer. Would not recommend.
(32 people found your comment helpful, 8 did not)	Dan Patrascu on 4/12/2011


Meritline.com Verified Buyer Great little gadjet. works well
(31 people found your comment helpful, 8 did not)	John Fyke on 4/20/2011


Meritline.com Verified Buyer Originally A680B tuners worked fine. But now, after 4 months in service, one of the 4 started giving me "no signal" error in WMC 7. An e-mail to tech support was like Chris Tucker talking to Jackie Chen. "Do you understand the words that are coming out of my mouth?!?" I stated that the tuners worked fine for 4 months, and now I am getting the "no signal" error after having the tuners on for a few hours. Switching channels shows program for a minutes, then "no signal". Restarting shows programming for a minute, then then "no signal" error again. Their answer is that A) these tuners are incompatible with multi-tuner set up. B) The "no signal" error is a WMC problem. What? A) I have had 4 of them running fine for 4 months. B) The "no signal" issue only comes up after a couple of hours of TV on, i.e. tuner is getting hot. Turning it off and letting it cool solves the issue for another couple of hours. Poor customer support!!!!
(30 people found your comment helpful, 8 did not)	David Budek on 4/30/2011


Meritline.com Verified Buyer Had problems with QAM. Worked great with antenna. I used Ezcap for QAM and it worked ok.
(29 people found your comment helpful, 8 did not)	James Basham on 5/3/2011


Meritline.com Verified Buyer I have 3 of this to record TV on a Media center and they have been working great so far. For the price, you get 3 comparing to other brands, awesome! The remote is and antena are not that good but I'm not using them anyway (gor a wireless mouse/keyboard)!
(27 people found your comment helpful, 8 did not)	Cyril Azoulay on 5/24/2011


Meritline.com Verified Buyer Works good, lets me watch most of the digital channels from Comcast. I say most because there are some that it doesn't see, not sure why. My digital TV can detect some channels that this device can't. I use it Windows 7 Media Center and it works great for recording high def shows. I don't use the remote so I don't have any comment on that.
(27 people found your comment helpful, 8 did not)	Kip Berger on 5/13/2011


Excellent, Works both Cable Tv and ove the air channels
Was this comment helpful? yes no (17 people found this comment helpful, 1 did not)	Ravi on 10/3/2009


bought for my laptop. Very easy to install and navigate. I am surprised at how very well it works. I have poor reception in my area but scanned in 18 over the air channels. When I scanned cable channels i scanned in many more channels than I get with my basic cable service, so I'm very pleased. I love the tv recording function to the hard drive and was able to burn dvd's of the recorded shows without any problems. I wish they had a function to record to dvd disc directly from tv. the only complaint I have is that I cannot get the remote to work right. It's all messed up, the controls don't do what they are supposed to do. So I use mostly the laptop controls. That's the reason I give it a 4, not a 5. Still, overall, a really neat, useful little gadget!.
Was this comment helpful? yes no (12 people found this comment helpful, 1 did not)	auntieannie2 on 10/16/2009


when installing says I need a license key don't see a license key in the pack help please
Was this comment helpful? yes no (7 people found this comment helpful, 5 did not)	Jay on 10/23/2009


Meritline.com Verified Buyer Its a nice tuner for the money
Was this comment helpful? yes no (4 people found this comment helpful, 3 did not)	Jermaine richardson on 12/1/2009


So you're thinking... Why would I buy a product rated 3 or 5 stars? If you read through the reviews, there are a number of reasons people give these negative reviews. Poor antenna.. poor software.. couldn't figure out installation.. didn't work with my cable.. etc. Well, if you're using these for over-the-air broadcasts, using your own antenna, using windows 7 media center, and you're savvy (or persistent) enough to install and setup, you'll probably love these things as I do. Using the TunerSalad mod, I have a 7-tuner setup using these and a couple other brands. Windows 7 media center lets you set a specific tuner to a specific channel, so I have 2 dedicated tuners hoocked up to a VHF antenna for my 2 VHF stations. The other 5 tuners cover 15 UHF channels. One con -- these do run a little hot, and I've had a couple of them die after extended use. Probably because I have seven of them clustered together on a signal booster.
Was this comment helpful? yes no (3 people found this comment helpful, 1 did not)	Technosquid on 8/9/2011


Meritline.com Verified Buyer Great deal when its on sale! Worked great with 64 bit Windows 7 Home Premium media center and Comcast cable. Used W7 driver from meritline link. (be sure to kill any other video using programs during the install, like Skype and maybe unplug any webcam to avoid file permission errors during driver install.) Did not try the remote or any software on the included CD. Picks up 50-100 clear (unscrambled) QAM channels on San Jose Comcast system. Includes all the local HD channels and the HD looks great. Note Media Center only shows local QAM channels until you go into settings and tell it to display all the "unknown channels". Found link with instructions via google but can't remember it now.
Was this comment helpful? yes no (3 people found this comment helpful, 0 did not)	Howard Maassen on 5/23/2010


Meritline.com Verified Buyer Works awesome on Windows 7 with Windows Media Center. You don't need to install any software from the included CD to get this to work. You'll want to install the infrared software though. Just get the Win7 drivers that's linked in the product description and launch Windows Media Center. Set up is easy and picture quality is great with Comcast. Time-shift and recording works without any lagging. I haven't tried over-the-air using the antenna. I have it on an Acer Aspire D250 with 2GB of RAM. It also works fine with my Dell Inspiron E1405 with 2GB RAM. Awesome value for the price. I may just buy another!
Was this comment helpful? yes no (3 people found this comment helpful, 0 did not)	Da Flash on 3/17/2010


Works as advertised and I am very satisfied with the product.
Was this comment helpful? yes no (3 people found this comment helpful, 1 did not)	R Davis on 10/13/2009


I purchased this because it was suppose to support QAM-256 unencrypted cable signals. I am using win7. Pros: The card will pickup ATSC over the air channels and a few cable TV channels. The audio and video quality playback is good... (when it decodes a signal). Cons: I only able to pickup a few channels on the FIOS cable system in Dallas. This same cable outlet will deliver many unencrypted channels on my standalone TVs. I also did tried adding an amplifier cable jack output (in front of the A680B USB Tuner) So far none of the drivers or suggestions from technical support have helped the problem. Has anyone had any luck at getting any of these Geniatech tuners working on the FIOS cable QAM-256 system?
Was this comment helpful? yes no (2 people found this comment helpful, 0 did not)	Meritline Fan on 11/15/2012


Meritline.com Verified Buyer I'm surprised how well this thing works. I hooked it up to a small dual-core Acer netbook. and it was able to record and playback HD OTA program just fine. Software needs a little finesse. Having to rearrange acquired stations is a real pain. An option to play the program in a stand alone, resizeable window would be nice. As usual, the included portable antenna is for emergencies only. If you want a good reception, use a real outdoor antenna. Overall, you can't complain about the quality of capture or display especially for the price.
Was this comment helpful? yes no (2 people found this comment helpful, 0 did not)	CatMan on 9/16/2012


Installed easily on a Windows Xp professional box; Was pleasantly surprised at how clear the picture was (this is also dependent on the computer you're running). Just be forewarned: it does get hot. So if you're using this as a tuner for a HTPC make sure you have plenty of air circulation for it. Cons- The included antenna won't pickup much: buy one or make your own to get better reception; The remote only works if you have an IR receiver on the computer
Was this comment helpful? yes no (2 people found this comment helpful, 0 did not)	bruschetta on 7/24/2012


Bought this 8/10/2010 - works as advertised, but no real software updates and slow to switch channels effectively. NOT MCE compatible (I've tried every driver combination to try to get it to work on Windows XP, Vista and 7 as a recognized tuner within Microsoft's MediaCenter software - and it will be recognized.) If you want a digital-only tuner to watch TV - GREAT :: DVR functionality? Yeah, it's there, but don't expect TiVo-type full integration.
Was this comment helpful? yes no (2 people found this comment helpful, 0 did not)	Cowboy on 5/8/2012


Meritline.com Verified Buyer Works great out of the box. Plugged it in and Windows Media Center found it, spent a few minutes scanning for channels and I was done. Now, you must remember that the antenna you use is THE MOST IMPORTANT aspect of this. The included antenna is crap and I got nothing when first using it. I had bought one of the "flat panel" type antennas and just hooked it up to my TV. I got virtually nothing in reception. I had to move the antenna up into the attic and then all the major local channels came in perfect. I then ran that cable to the Mygica tuner and voila! I got all the same channels in crystal clear HD. Works great as a DVR. Couldn't be more pleased, especially with what this costs. FYI, I have not tried the remote. To summarize, if you get crappy reception nothing is gonna make this device work well. You need a good antenna system.
Was this comment helpful? yes no (2 people found this comment helpful, 0 did not)	IRMan on 4/21/2012


Meritline.com Verified Buyer Worked perfectly upon installation in my Window 7-64 bit Ultimate. I used Windows Media Center, and did not install the accompanying software except for the remote. There are a couple of buttons that are not working, but it would appear that I can configure them later. The only downside is that I wish it included a base to plug so that I could use it a a permanent fixture to my desktop.
Was this comment helpful? yes no (2 people found this comment helpful, 0 did not)	Jim Giblin on 6/1/2011


Meritline.com Verified Buyer DO NOT BUY THIS. After eight hours of attempting to install i got the IT guy from my office to attempt it after three hours he offered to pay me for it just so he could beat it into peices witha hammer. Support never answers email and that is the only way to get it. Also it takes over two hours to scan then tells you some kind of error message. We ordered another one and same thing... AVOID this thing unless you need some hammer practice.
Was this comment helpful? yes no (2 people found this comment helpful, 0 did not)	DA Bessire on 2/13/2011


Meritline.com Verified Buyer Sorry, here is the second part couldn't fit the whole review in one. first, don't do this unless you are out of the return or replacement policy or just like me, don't want to pay for the return shipping and don't care if you break your tuner. •Take the tuner out of your computer's USB port, gently push/bend the tuner's USB connector slightly upwards ("HD TV Stick" up, serial number down) . Don't try to bend it while it's connected into your PC, you don't want to break your USB port, don't use force, , all you are trying to acomplish is to get the inner connectors make contact with the board. Now try it, If it still doesn't work try to bend it again, until you get your computer to recognize it then you can go on with the driver installation. If you got your drivers from Meritline you have to use the setup.exe to install the drivers then restart your PC, I downloaded the drivers from Mygica because they include a folder with the inf file I need so I didn't have to run the set
Was this comment helpful? yes no (2 people found this comment helpful, 0 did not)	Emad on 12/1/2010


Meritline.com Verified Buyer 1 star for quality control and the hassle I had to go through. For those who couldn't get it to install, the problem is the hardware not the drivers. I'm not going to talk about what I went through to realized it's a loose connection inside the tuner, instead I'm going to explain the symptoms and a possible fix if you don't want to go through RMAing and shipping. A bad tuner will do the following: 1- When it's connected to PC you get a message in the task bar saying " USB Device Not Recognized. One of the usb devices attached to this computer has Malfunctioned.. etc" 2- In device manager under "Universal serial bus controllers" you'll see "Unknown device". A good tuner will do the following: 1- With a working tuner, in the task bar you should see "windows could not install drivers successfully" or something close in the task bar. 2- In device manager you should see a new entry "Other Devices" and when you expand it you'll see "Auvitek". Here is the fix for bad
Was this comment helpful? yes no (2 people found this comment helpful, 0 did not)	Emad on 12/1/2010


Meritline.com Verified Buyer Tuner works well - However included software CD contains virus/spyware. Get the driver online. Do not install from the CD.
Was this comment helpful? yes no (2 people found this comment helpful, 0 did not)	RobertT on 7/7/2010


Unimpressed with this. I have this connected to my desktop. I am running XP-Pro on a Quad Core CPU and 4 gigs of ram. My system is less than 6 months old. I am also running HDMI out to my monitor via a Radeon 3200 video card. I can normally play 1080P files with no problems whatsoever. This is connected to my cable serv. When scanning, it finds all the channels but will only play the digital ones. The SD digitals play ok but the HD ones (720p and 1080i) are jerky and pixelated. This device can not handle the HD channels and will not play the regular channels..so worthless.
Was this comment helpful? yes no (2 people found this comment helpful, 0 did not)	Michael on 10/28/2009


Works very well with Windows 7 Professional 64-bit/ Windows Media Center using a home-made HD antenna.
Was this comment helpful? yes no (1 people found this comment helpful, 0 did not)	anonymous on 5/3/2012


Today (13Apr2012), I ordered my second A680B. It is an awesome product. I bought the 2nd because it delivers an excellent HDTV picture. I currently own 3 (6012A) and 1 (680B) tuners. Unless you get a defective unit then you should have a good experience. The picture is BETTER than my QAM cable signals. If you do not then consider my recent experiments. Using windows 7, I can record (on an amd c60 1ghz netbook) two simultaneous HDTV channels and watch them in realtime over my lan on another computer or watch one channel while recording another on that netbook. I am frustrated with reception and and the remote. I can receive almost seventy local stations (phoenix az). But if I move my (amplified antenna) just a few cm then I can loose over 25 channels. Yes the included antenna is limited but placement is REALLY that important. The biggest surprise was that media center and total media don't pick up the same stations with the antenna in the same place. I could write a lot more but I mix
Was this comment helpful? yes no (1 people found this comment helpful, 0 did not)	Chris on 4/13/2012


Meritline.com Verified Buyer Could not get it to work. It took several tries to load the drive and get the computer find the tv stick. Then when trying to do the tv setup the computer had a fatal blue screen error. I'm giving up on this thing.
Was this comment helpful? yes no (1 people found this comment helpful, 0 did not)	Ron on 3/31/2012


It is as bad as it can be. I wouldn't order this piece at any price if I know it before.
Was this comment helpful? yes no (1 people found this comment helpful, 0 did not)	Doug Huynh on 2/8/2012


Works as advertised. I don't use the included remote. I have two of these tuners hooked up to a Windows 7 Media Center PC. They just work. Follow the instructions to get the drivers installed and then enjoy. Quality is great and the price is right. I use these tuners for OTA HD broadcast TV.
Was this comment helpful? yes no (1 people found this comment helpful, 0 did not)	Sixer on 9/26/2011


Meritline.com Verified Buyer If you know what you are doing, a fast CPU and a good TV antena is a must to bring in all the channel and works properly. Remote is too slow, I don't think I will use it at all. For less than $30 you got yourself a HDTV and DVR, so you don't have to fight with your wife for TV anymore. Works nicely with media center except media center don't give you signal meter if you need to adjust antena. A very good product, only recommand to people who understand what is required to this kind product work.
Was this comment helpful? yes no (1 people found this comment helpful, 0 did not)	Happy Husband on 8/6/2011


Meritline.com Verified Buyer I've had it about a month, it works great. I use it with WMC. I didn't use the software, antenna or remote. The software wasn't needed, WMC found it right away. I have an antenna in the attic, it gets all the local stations including HD. I use my itouch as a remote.
Was this comment helpful? yes no (1 people found this comment helpful, 0 did not)	Rockin64 on 6/16/2011


Meritline.com Verified Buyer I can get this to find air broadcast signals just fine but it refuses to acknowledge my cable tv input.
Was this comment helpful? yes no (1 people found this comment helpful, 1 did not)	David Drake on 6/11/2011


Meritline.com Verified Buyer Works as described for less than half of similar tuners. As with any HDTV tuner, it's difficult if not impossible to set the antenna so all stations come in. I have two HDTV converter boxes and an internal TV card and this is every bit as good if not better.
Was this comment helpful? yes no (1 people found this comment helpful, 0 did not)	Josh on 4/23/2011


At first, I was very impressed with this tuner....easy to install, and with a larger antenna than the one provided, it actually picked up more channels than my TV! Unfortunately, the remote control malfunctioned after only a few uses....several buttons failed to work, in spite of careful handling, and new batteries did not correct the problem .
Was this comment helpful? yes no (1 people found this comment helpful, 0 did not)	Jessica Faye Harrison on 3/25/2011


Meritline.com Verified Buyer Pretty much a duplicate of most other reviews, all cable channels locked, and the included antenna picks up nothing. An old pair of rabbit ears got all the stations per tvfool in the Phoenix area. Most annoying that this tuner locks all the cable stations that my TV picks up just fine. (No converter box)
Was this comment helpful? yes no (1 people found this comment helpful, 0 did not)	Bill Kazakoff on 3/20/2011


Meritline.com Verified Buyer I expected to be dissappointed based upon the low price and a few negative reviews, instead this device exceeded my best expectations. It works great and within a short setup time, I was watching 13 over the air broadcast stations with the included antenna. One suggestion -- I had previous experience with an identical antenna that came with a portable tv I bought. That may have made the difference between being happy and not. When they say placement of the antenna is important, it is CRITICAL. This antenna was the same as one that come with portable, it worked better than a 40 dollar amplified antenna, but the difference in one inch of placement is no signals vs. many. I must have put it in 1000 different positions before finding a good one, and it likes being secured to metal with its magnetic base. I suggest experiementingwith placement with a real tv and seeing where you get the best signals, before doing the scan with this USB device. That could save you from being dissap
Was this comment helpful? yes no (1 people found this comment helpful, 0 did not)	Gary on 2/27/2011


I am 35 miles east of downtown L.A. and got 68 channels using the included antenna. Works great on my Acer Aspire AOD250 with XP.
Was this comment helpful? yes no (1 people found this comment helpful, 0 did not)	parteecia on 2/21/2011


Meritline.com Verified Buyer Probably short-sighted on my part, but.... I bought this for use with home cable TV (Time-Warner Cable). I figured that since all my TV's plug directly to the incoming cable (as they are all "cable ready") it should work- not so. Unfortunately, my cable is an analog signal and this product does not support an analog cable signal. It works for over the air HD TV, but that's all that works for me.
Was this comment helpful? yes no (1 people found this comment helpful, 0 did not)	Alan Longyear on 2/20/2011


NOTICE - Fyi - Before any purchase of Digital Transmission TV signal (TV) - If you have not actually tried it in your area, CHECK FIRST. In the middle of Los Angeles, there are only a couple channels that reach my home. The new Digital Broadcast system depend on where you live, and being in a major city does not mean you will be able to get much. LA - 4 channels and no ABC (from my home in the middle of the Southern California Basin)
Was this comment helpful? yes no (1 people found this comment helpful, 0 did not)	Average Jon on 1/5/2011


Meritline.com Verified Buyer Been using it for 2 months and works well with win 7. I get around 40 channels with most of the main channels like ABC, NBC, CBS. The remote also works but is slightly hard to press. It works and very good for the price. Recommended!
Was this comment helpful? yes no (1 people found this comment helpful, 0 did not)	Nandan on 12/24/2010


Meritline.com Verified Buyer I have not been able to get this item to work on Windows XP or VISTA. It would not scan channel using XP and I could not get past TV install point with VISTA (error message requiring you to close other programs).
Was this comment helpful? yes no (1 people found this comment helpful, 0 did not)	Wilson Teller on 11/8/2010


Meritline.com Verified Buyer The included antenna is too weak to be used for serious home use. The USB tuner worked great for both QAM (unencrypted cable) and ATSC (antenna), it picked up the same channels with the same quality of reception as my Series 3 TiVo DVR. The included software and drivers worked fine in Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit. The included DVR software is crude, but worked without problems. The tuner worked just fine in Windows Media Center, so I have been using that. The included remote didn't work at all, period. If I could rate the tuner alone, I'd give it 4/5, and the remote and antenna get 1/5 and 2/5 respectively. So I'll end with total grade of 3/5.
Was this comment helpful? yes no (1 people found this comment helpful, 0 did not)	Mike on 9/26/2010


Meritline.com Verified Buyer Perfect for th price. Shows all ClearQAM HD channels. Worked with Comcast. Total media recorder that came bundled is good enough, but you may want to integrate with windows media center.
Was this comment helpful? yes no (1 people found this comment helpful, 0 did not)	sephk on 9/13/2010


Meritline.com Verified Buyer Mygica AB570B worked perfectly out of the box. I had it up and working in about 15 minutes. It picked up 54 channels with the tiny little antennae that it came with. I expect to upgrade the antennae to something better and hopefully be able to pickup more channel. Excellent product and great pricing...
Was this comment helpful? yes no (1 people found this comment helpful, 1 did not)	Brandon on 9/11/2010


Meritline.com Verified Buyer Now supports Windows 7 64-bit, and when it works, it's fine, but Arcsoft software is very glitchy, sometimes locks up, sometimes totally quits all together and shuts down and then sometimes even totally locks up whole system and a hard shutdown/reboot is required. I used Revo Uninstaller to totally remove all remnants of this product from my laptop. I should ask for my money back, but it is not worth the hassle. Thank goodness it was only $25.00
Was this comment helpful? yes no (1 people found this comment helpful, 0 did not)	Derek B. on 9/4/2010


Meritline.com Verified Buyer No NTSC, so it can't be used with basic (analog) cable. Most digital channels are locked, so it only picks up local digital cable channels. Couldn't correctly map the digital channels to the guide. ATSC picks up local digital channels OTA channels, but only with a better antenna. About the only use for this tuner is if you're getting an OTA signal. For everything else, stay away.
Was this comment helpful? yes no (1 people found this comment helpful, 0 did not)	Eddie on 6/23/2010


Meritline.com Verified Buyer Worked as advertised. Sure beats the $8 per month that Comcast wants for a box to allow you to see QAM from their cable system.
Was this comment helpful? yes no (1 people found this comment helpful, 0 did not)	RJ Warwick on 6/20/2010


Meritline.com Verified Buyer Pros: It receives these channels in Los Angeles. Works with Windows Media Center (windows 7) 2.1 [HD] CBS 4.1 [HD] NBC 4.2 NBC Plus 4.4 NBC4 5.1 KTLA 5.1 KTLA2 18.1 KSCI 18.2 KSCI 18.3 KSCI 18.4 KSCI 28.1 [HD] KCET 18.5 KSCI Armenian 18.6 KSCI Spanish 18.7 KSCI Van tv chinese 18.8 KSCI Chinese/Taiwanese 22.1 KWHY Spanish 28.2 KCET2 28.3 KCET3 28.4 KCET4 PBS 30.1 KPXN 30.2 KPXN2 30.3 KPXN3 34.1 KMEX 40.x KTBN Christian 46.1 KFTR Spanish 52.1 KVEA Spanish 54.x KAZA Spanish 56.1 KDOC 56.2 KDOC Spanish christian 57.x KJLA Spanish paid tv 57.3 KJLA Korean Tv 57.4 KJLA Chinese TV 57.5 KJLA Chinese TV 57.6 KJLA Vietnamese TV 57.7 KJLA Spanish 57.8 KJLA Paid Tv hot tubs 57.9 KJLA Taiwan 58.1 KLCS PBS Cons: The included software doesn't receive any channels. Hence remote control is useless. Need a better antenna.
Was this comment helpful? yes no (1 people found this comment helpful, 0 did not)	Los_Angeles_RA on 6/12/2010


Meritline.com Verified Buyer 1. Great product. 2. Downloaded drivers from Meritline. 3. Ordered and received. 4. Connected dongle and installed software on a intel q6600. :Total Media allows you to save your ch. scan results (saving a LOT of TIME) for testing. :Record and play were nearly instantaneous. :Included antenna works but I use an older powered one.
Was this comment helpful? yes no (1 people found this comment helpful, 0 did not)	chris on 5/26/2010


Meritline.com Verified Buyer Fast Shipping! TV works good and i like it Thank You
Was this comment helpful? yes no (1 people found this comment helpful, 0 did not)	Don Berry on 5/25/2010


Meritline.com Verified Buyer hooked it up to my Pentium dual, 3gb, Windows 7 home premium laptop. Works great, I live next to some mountains that usually make over the air reception impossible, but was able to pull in 8 channels even with the flimsy included antenna. Worked pretty well via cable, pulling in some HD channels that looked great. However the scan for cable took forever, almost an hour. Also hooked it up to my Acer netbook, using a USB drive with the CD data on it. Also worked great
Was this comment helpful? yes no (1 people found this comment helpful, 0 did not)	dan??sniffin on 4/12/2010


I have it installed on both of my laptops; one runs XP and the other runs Windows 7. It works in both XP with the enclosed TotalMedia software, and Windows 7 with Windows Media Center. The enclosed antenna is kind of weak though. Overall, I am impressed.
Was this comment helpful? yes no (1 people found this comment helpful, 0 did not)	Sean on 3/10/2010


Works wonderful after I change to a bigger antenna. I can get 65 stations for free. I am going to stop my cabel program. I like free HDTV.
Was this comment helpful? yes no (1 people found this comment helpful, 0 did not)	Aron on 2/15/2010


It works so good on my laptop Dell. I have to say it is really perfect. Will buy another one for my wife.
Was this comment helpful? yes no (1 people found this comment helpful, 0 did not)	Nick on 1/12/2010


Meritline.com Verified Buyer Excellent product with good sensitivity pulling in most area digital and analog signals. You will, however, want to purchase a better quality antenna to enjoy full functionality.
Was this comment helpful? yes no (1 people found this comment helpful, 0 did not)	Thomas Smith on 12/5/2009


Works much better than I ever expected for "over the air" reception. Good quality HD recording...works well with Windows media center. I didn't use the included software, just the driver. Received it in only 3 days from across the country with the free shipping. A great deal.
Was this comment helpful? yes no (1 people found this comment helpful, 0 did not)	David A on 11/16/2009


The TV tuner stick runs really well, along with the software that was included. However the antenna is garbage. . . it picked up 8 stations with a max signal of about 1/2 strength no matter where I placed it. I used my own antenna, and it picked up 66 channels OTA with most of them at full strength. The remote is also cumbersome, working sometimes while not working most of the time. The tuner also has a tendency to run hot for some reason, so be aware of that. For the price though, it's a good way to get OTA on your computer. Just don't expect much from it if you take it and its antenna out with you.
Was this comment helpful? yes no (1 people found this comment helpful, 0 did not)	Joseph K on 11/14/2009


Gotta say, this little thing surprised me. I'm using it in my Windows 8 media center box and it's been extremely reliable. PQ is great and it's actually performing better than my HDHomeRun box! It changes channels quicker and seems to have a more sensitive tuner. Only thing that concerns me is how hot the tuner and demod chips run. I mean, most ATSC tuners run hot, but they usually have a nice big PCB to dump heat into. The PCB in this thing is so small there's no real place for heat to go. So I wonder how long it'll last... I may slap some tiny heatsinks on the two chips just to be on the safe side.
Was this comment helpful? yes no (0 people found this comment helpful, 0 did not)	zomgponies on 4/21/2013


Meritline.com Verified Buyer On an XP or Vista machine, put the CD in the drive and it will load the software [be patient] . Wait till finished then insert the TV stick. On Win 7 and 8: 1. DO NOT PLUG IN THE STICK YET. 2. The proper drivers MUST be installed as the first step. 3. If your CD is marked A680B(W7) the Win7 32-bit and 64-bit drivers are on the CD in the Driver folder. Or download them. Identify system type by going into All Programs/Accessories/System tools/System Information or run DXDIAG and look for X64 (64-bit) or X86 (32-bit). Install the appropriate driver. 4. You can use either the Total Media S/W on the disk or Windows Media Center (standard on W7, optional on W8). If using the TotalMedia S/W then install it from Setup inside the TotalMedia folder on the CD. 5. Open the TV IR folder on the CD and run its Setup file. Leave CD in drive. 6. Insert the TV stick. 7. Remove paper barrier sticking out of remote. The remote must be pointed toward the red power LED for the remote to work.
Was this comment helpful? yes no (0 people found this comment helpful, 0 did not)	dickhaul on 4/5/2013


The first one i got had a defective remote did not work at all. The antenna is horrible unable to get any signal even outside so i bought one from Walmart for 20.00 but went to Meritline.com warehouse and had it exchanged for a new one and now the remote works and i get 72 channels using win 7 media center picture quality is awesome very very clear. i'm planning to buy another one for my net-book and buy another antenna from Walmart. I give it 4 stars for 2 reasons shipping package was just in an envelope and the defective remove.. it actually deserves a 5 star.. This i can recommend just because i love to buy things and try them out..
Was this comment helpful? yes no (0 people found this comment helpful, 0 did not)	Gadgets Guru on 2/1/2013


Meritline.com Verified Buyer This item works beautifully in Windows 8 Media Center for off-the-air TV channels. I had a bit of trouble getting the drivers installed, but I had previously installed another tuner from a different computer and when I installed the A680B tuner, I failed to uninstall the drivers from the previous tuner as Meritline recommends. When the other tuner was uninstalled and the drivers deleted, this tuner installed without a hitch. I am as pleased with this one as the other Mygica tuner I've had for a few years.
Was this comment helpful? yes no (0 people found this comment helpful, 0 did not)	Douglas on 12/29/2012


The tuner works well, and it's worth buying just for that. I'm using mine with Media Center on Windows 7. The downside for me is that the drivers seem to only support having one attached to your system, so I can't record on multiple channels at once. I gave up early on using the remote or included antenna.
Was this comment helpful? yes no (0 people found this comment helpful, 0 did not)	Buyer on 1/31/2012


Needs a strong antenna signal. Worked decently for a few months, then intermittently functional, then completely dead.
Was this comment helpful? yes no (0 people found this comment helpful, 0 did not)	upx on 1/21/2012


Meritline.com Verified Buyer Junk. Go for a brand name product here.
Was this comment helpful? yes no (0 people found this comment helpful, 6 did not)	RJ on 6/3/2011


Meritline.com Verified Buyer This tuner works pretty good. One problem I encountered was trying to get windows media center to recognize it. I finally figured out I had to uninstall the total media software, then MCE found it. Now it works great!
Was this comment helpful? yes no (0 people found this comment helpful, 0 did not)	Matt on 4/5/2011


Meritline.com Verified Buyer Very process intrinsic on the CPU & hence response time with the IR remote will vary. It will be nice if there is Linux Support for this. The IR Remote I got is different than the one shown here and the antenna is of low range. Sadly the Digital Shift has compromised delivery due to signal strength. Analog Signal although snowy was watchable in times of urgency.
Was this comment helpful? yes no (0 people found this comment helpful, 0 did not)	Arun Serrao on 3/26/2011


Meritline.com Verified Buyer I have 2 of them. They work well and stable with MCE (Windows 7 Pro - on both 32bit and 64bit). This tuners have been giving me better signal than both of my ATI and Avermedia HDTV USB ones. ArcSoft TotalMedia 3.5 keeps crashing.....it won't work. BTW, I don't use the included antenna. It's not working well. I have a big outdoor HDTV antenna (20 miles away from most stations).
Was this comment helpful? yes no (0 people found this comment helpful, 0 did not)	Kumpol on 3/14/2011


Meritline.com Verified Buyer The big problem I had is I get no technical support that follow the telephone given no live poeple there,even I paid for the long distance calls. Emails were no response. The product was never work in my area New York city with Time Warner internet. Obviously,The Manufacture Mygica/Genitech is do not understand how to doing business in the US. though they used all Caucasian figures no Chinese on their advertise.
Was this comment helpful? yes no (0 people found this comment helpful, 0 did not)	Raymond Watt on 3/8/2011


Meritline.com Verified Buyer Too good to be true! This item is junk & I would not suggest this to anyone!
Was this comment helpful? yes no (0 people found this comment helpful, 1 did not)	amy cadovich on 2/25/2011


Meritline.com Verified Buyer The HDTV stick works well. However there is no driver in Windows Update, you have to do it manually. Also the included accessories (antenna + remote) are basically junk, they only offer the lowest possible functionality. Don't worry about the negatives. Once you get the setup done, and have a good antenna, it works very well.
Was this comment helpful? yes no (0 people found this comment helpful, 0 did not)	Sukru on 2/24/2011


Meritline.com Verified Buyer This tuner is just horrible. I installed the newest driver and Windows media center with win 7 64bit couldn't get any signal. Totalmedia finds a couple of channels but everytime it ended up freezing after searching for channels. Emailed customer service about this and they are nice guys from China but they couldn't figure out the problem.
Was this comment helpful? yes no (0 people found this comment helpful, 1 did not)	Yuan on 2/22/2011


Meritline.com Verified Buyer The tuner is great when it works. I originally installed it on a Windows 7 machine using the drivers on the CD to use with Windows Media Center, but it would not work with Clear QAM. I had to download the drivers from the website to make it work with Clear QAM, which is great. But now, the tuner does not start up on the first application. I need to stop and restart the application a couple of times.
Was this comment helpful? yes no (0 people found this comment helpful, 0 did not)	David Budek on 2/20/2011


It makes you feel stupid when you purchase something that does not work. This is garbage. I did not expect a lot for $30, but I expected it to work. JimC
Was this comment helpful? yes no (0 people found this comment helpful, 1 did not)	Jim Culver on 2/15/2011


Meritline.com Verified Buyer Works great with a good antenna.
Was this comment helpful? yes no (0 people found this comment helpful, 0 did not)	Richard on 2/11/2011


Meritline.com Verified Buyer Been working on this for 3 days now, I thought ATI cards were bad. Qam finds my cable provider scans the channels and only gives me 18 channels, That is what I receive from my roof top antenna... Total media 3.5 crashes while scanning cable channels, Well no since all my hair has now fell out, I will keep trying. I tell it not to use ASTC tuner in set up but there is something wrong here. So glad I bought w7 ultimate b4 this
Was this comment helpful? yes no (0 people found this comment helpful, 0 did not)	Swede on 2/10/2011


Meritline.com Verified Buyer I was super impressed by the quality of this TV tuner. With the tiny little antenna, I expected to get little to no channels and thought I would have to buy a new antenna but it worked perfectly! I haven't tried out the DVR functions, my only use for it will be to watch live sports broadcasts while im at work in HD. The quality is pretty spectacular if you are in an area with good reception. Fortunately, I work extremely close to the Empire State Building. I can't comment on the DVR software at all since I havent used it.
Was this comment helpful? yes no (0 people found this comment helpful, 0 did not)	Freddy on 1/27/2011


Meritline.com Verified Buyer A nice little device for the money. Works as described. Best to have a newer, faster computer. Mine is a Athlon 2500+ with a gig of RAM and the image is jumpy and drops out but watchable. Also use an outdoor antenna if you want HDTV off the airwaves.
Was this comment helpful? yes no (0 people found this comment helpful, 0 did not)	Samplerman on 1/25/2011


Meritline.com Verified Buyer great and the software is great for making dvds.I wrote a review for this before,i mistakinly said this does analog.it does not sorry.I you want anolog too get hybrid from meritline.same software thanks
Was this comment helpful? yes no (0 people found this comment helpful, 1 did not)	john wheeler on 1/25/2011


Meritline.com Verified Buyer The tuner works well, beter then my $700 HDTV tuner. Of cause the signo come from antena. Even the remote works, you need to remove the insulation plastic from the battery. Well worth the money.
Was this comment helpful? yes no (0 people found this comment helpful, 0 did not)	anonymous on 1/22/2011


Meritline.com Verified Buyer Just great, you can get analog and digital,I dont know if thats clear in the discription.Anyway love it. Pluss the free software you get with it.Does somthing i havent seen any other dvd software do..When your making dvds it keeps track of how much space you have on your disk.so cool.I buy extra usb extenders to place the stick,for better acces for remote.@ meritline, usually 99 cents on special.I bought a more exspencive tuner stick (K world) This is better. One thing and this is about just about all tv tuners period...The antena just doesnt pick up enough stations.Get a cheap one anyware else. Of course the stick is 10 dol- ers cheaper now.All good! o
Was this comment helpful? yes no (0 people found this comment helpful, 1 did not)	john wheeler on 1/18/2011


Meritline.com Verified Buyer Works as described, however the included 4in antenna is only for areas with strongest broadcast signal. Old rabid ears got clear reception of the strongest channels in my area. Hooked up to Charter Basic Cable provided a flood of channels including some music channels. Included ArcSoft software provides basic operation. Overall a great product at the price.
Was this comment helpful? yes no (0 people found this comment helpful, 0 did not)	Alexander on 1/17/2011


Meritline.com Verified Buyer Installed on a Win 7 - 32bit machine using the driver supplied on product page. Windows Media Center found with no problem and set up for over the air channels. Received 25 channels using homemade antenna in the attic. Picture quality comparable to tv's built in tuner --maybe slightly softer (altho thats prob the pc). Very Pleased. It is running on a very "light weight" HTPC @720p Computer: Intel D510MO (Atom D510) MB GMA 3150 Integrated Graphics 2G Ram Hooked up to a 720P LCD TV
Was this comment helpful? yes no (0 people found this comment helpful, 0 did not)	Pauly on 1/8/2011


Meritline.com Verified Buyer Worked OK for awhile. Only picked up major networks off the internet feed in Windows Media Center. The software that came with it picked up 85 more but was difficult to use. Then my cable company went to DOCSYS 3.0 and it hasn't worked since. Support didn't understand the problem so it's useless. My TV tuner on my flat screen gets about 200 channels off the internet connection even after the Docsys 3.0 conversion.
Was this comment helpful? yes no (0 people found this comment helpful, 0 did not)	Dan on 12/27/2010


Meritline.com Verified Buyer waste of money ... 15 minutes to scan the signal and 3 channels sound one hard to see and two Spanish.... SO BOT BUY
Was this comment helpful? yes no (0 people found this comment helpful, 2 did not)	Kashyap Modi on 12/25/2010


Meritline.com Verified Buyer Works pretty good, the little antenna picks up most major channels without much problem.. it also has a magnet base which is nice.. however, the antenna will not work very well when its windy outside for whatever reason and doesn't pick up some smaller networks.. the software is ok, the picture quality is good, one thing i dont like is that it scans the channels, but it doesn't re-order them so you have channels in the order it is scanned(which is not in numerical order)..
Was this comment helpful? yes no (0 people found this comment helpful, 0 did not)	Rob on 12/11/2010


Meritline.com Verified Buyer Worked perfectly, though the tiny antenna provided couldn't pick up a signal. Tried a larger one; bingo. Haven't tried cable hook up yet.
Was this comment helpful? yes no (0 people found this comment helpful, 0 did not)	Keith Roberts on 12/1/2010


Meritline.com Verified Buyer Was easy to set-up. Arcsoft software and included TV viewing software was nothing special and was a bit clunky, You could not label channels with your own labels was one feature that I missed. Biggest problem with it was the fact that on Comcast in the Pacific NW USA it only picked up local and infomercial channels, after some research it looks like Comcast makes you go through one of their HD boxes no matter what so I can not blame it on the Mygica, just something to be aware of.
Was this comment helpful? yes no (0 people found this comment helpful, 0 did not)	Derek Loughrey on 11/29/2010


Meritline.com Verified Buyer Tuner did not work at all, and to top it off, the included software cd tried to infect my computer. Do not waste your money.
Was this comment helpful? yes no (0 people found this comment helpful, 1 did not)	Lynette Karcher on 11/28/2010


Meritline.com Verified Buyer This tuner is actually quite good, in a limited sense. I'm using Vista with TV pack. I had to download the Windows 7 driver to get the tuner to work with the modified Vista. I could only get 2 QAM channels using Media Center. I was ready to return the tuner, but I tried installing the Total Media software that came with the tuner as a last resort. Total Media tuned in all the QAM channels, so now I am happy.
Was this comment helpful? yes no (0 people found this comment helpful, 0 did not)	joe lewis on 11/23/2010


Meritline.com Verified Buyer Great Item… The software is nice and easy to use. The recording function plus TV guide feature are very nice. The stock antenna is a little weak though. I only got about 6 stations. But when I use my house antenna I get every channel available here in South Florida. I’m planning on buying another for my son’s laptop.
Was this comment helpful? yes no (0 people found this comment helpful, 0 did not)	Marcus Hurt on 11/15/2010


Meritline.com Verified Buyer excellent product..works as advertised. has a nice magnetic base to the antenna so it wont just 'fall off' if you stick it to a metal surface...
Was this comment helpful? yes no (0 people found this comment helpful, 0 did not)	sriram r on 11/8/2010


Meritline.com Verified Buyer The interface for the software is not very well refined. I am able to do most of the stuff I would expect from the software, however I have had the video lock up when trying to fast forward or rewind live TV. Especially if I have more than just a few minutes buffered. All in all for the cost, it works great to record and works great to watch live, can't complain for what I paid.
Was this comment helpful? yes no (0 people found this comment helpful, 0 did not)	matthew marra on 11/8/2010


Meritline.com Verified Buyer Works great with windows media center ,Did not use the included software. Downloaded the driver from this site and then scan for channels found 30 in about 20 mins the stick stay's cool ,I think it does a good job compared to the one that you can get for around 80 bucks that get's hot.
Was this comment helpful? yes no (0 people found this comment helpful, 0 did not)	Sydell on 11/8/2010


Meritline.com Verified Buyer Bought is a while ago, and tried and tired to get it to work, but it just doesn't work well at all. I used the same TV antenna that I use on 7" portable TV that gets all the local channels. But this only gets 2 channels, and none of the major networks, and the picture is horrible. Waste of time and money. Sorry Meritline, we love your other products, but you got a DUD with this one.
Was this comment helpful? yes no (0 people found this comment helpful, 0 did not)	Linda Arth on 11/7/2010


Meritline.com Verified Buyer work great, antennas not so good
Was this comment helpful? yes no (0 people found this comment helpful, 0 did not)	richard walk on 11/7/2010


Meritline.com Verified Buyer It never worked.
Was this comment helpful? yes no (0 people found this comment helpful, 0 did not)	David Gottschlich on 11/7/2010


Meritline.com Verified Buyer Here's my take on this. According to antennaweb.org I should get 4 channels. With the little antenna that this comes with I get 8. Not all of them have a strong enough signal all the time, but I'm not even trying to move the antenna around. It's on my desk next to my laptop. Image is as good as others I have owned. HD is outstanding, but makes my 2.56GHz core 2 duo work hard. Nothing can else can be running. What more can you expect?
Was this comment helpful? yes no (0 people found this comment helpful, 0 did not)	Brian Wajdyk on 11/6/2010


Meritline.com Verified Buyer Unfortunately this TV Tuner does not detect any of the extended TV channels I have. So I ended up only getting the local channels - ABC, NBC, CW, FOX. Even though part of it was misunderstanding on my part, the product is still below expectations. The quality I get for some of the channels is pretty good, but the antenna included is no good at all, the software freezes frequently and is rather slow, and I am having trouble getting it to work with 3rd party programs. Hulu works better, if you are just in for the TV shows.
Was this comment helpful? yes no (0 people found this comment helpful, 0 did not)	Wei-Hsien Du on 11/3/2010


Meritline.com Verified Buyer The bundled TotalMedia software will let you create a PIP window to watch a program while you're doing something else on your computer. But it's kind of hidden. Unfortunately, TotalMedia always opens in Maximized (full-screen) mode. First, you need to click on the Restore button in the upper-right corner to get it down to a size you can adjust. Then, when you click on its misnamed Full Screen button, it will expand the picture to fill the reduced window. You can then use the borders to size it as desired. Unfortunately (again), when you press Esc to get back out of Full Window mode, it will re-size the window to some arbitrary size which may place it partially off the screen. You might have to drag it back to get to some of the functions.
Was this comment helpful? yes no (0 people found this comment helpful, 0 did not)	Ron on 10/31/2010


Meritline.com Verified Buyer I figured out what you have to do to get the remote to work. Although the install program includes the installation of TV IR, it's not a driver but an application. To get the remote to work, you have to run the TV IR application (Program Files\TV IR\TV IR.exe) IF YOU HAVE RESTARTED WINDOWS. As long as you have run it once since the last reboot, you do not have rerun it each time you restart Total Media. Because of this, you may want to put a TV IR shortcut on your desktop, or even put it into your Startup folder.
Was this comment helpful? yes no (0 people found this comment helpful, 0 did not)	Ron on 10/31/2010


Meritline.com Verified Buyer I found no correlation between what antennaweb.org said I should be able to receive and what I actually got using the A680B with an alternative antenna, the Artec from Meritline (201-088).
Was this comment helpful? yes no (0 people found this comment helpful, 0 did not)	Ron on 10/31/2010


Meritline.com Verified Buyer Oct '10 – I installed the A680B on a Vista 32 laptop. The shipped installer (USB2_HDTV_Stick.exe) sequentially installs drivers, Total Media, and supposedly the IR software. Total Media ran but I can't get the remote to work (battery was fine). Setup was simple but it crashed/froze a lot. (I checked for an update but 3.5.7.282 ©2005 was the latest.) Using cable (TWC-Carlsbad), it found 300+ channels. 5% were unlocked and had very good quality. Next I used the included antenna. I'm on a 750-foot-high hill in N. San Diego County. I put the antenna in a window facing LA/OC. Not one channel! I then used an Artec antenna (201-088). It found 37 channels from the same spot. About 5 had full bars (6) and great A/V. Another 5 had 2-3 bars and the picture was sporadic. The rest had no bars, no picture, no sound. Having locked in all those channels, I went back to the included antenna. Nothing again!
Was this comment helpful? yes no (0 people found this comment helpful, 0 did not)	Ron on 10/31/2010


Meritline.com Verified Buyer This this is awesome. Plugged it into my Vista 64 MCE machine and it detected it instantly. Hooked it up to my homemade Coat Hanger Antenna and found every local channel. Picture is flawless. I use it outside for watching football games via a projector and everyone raves about how good the picture looks. I highly recommend this.
Was this comment helpful? yes no (0 people found this comment helpful, 0 did not)	Mike on 10/25/2010


Meritline.com Verified Buyer I do not recommend this item IT COULD NOT FIND CHANNELS FROM MY DIGITAL CABLE SERVICE, NOR DID IT FIND ANY OVER THE AIR CHANNELS
Was this comment helpful? yes no (0 people found this comment helpful, 0 did not)	Randy Kubler on 10/24/2010


Meritline.com Verified Buyer Works fine with windows 7 and vista.
Was this comment helpful? yes no (0 people found this comment helpful, 0 did not)	Joe Ebel on 10/24/2010


Meritline.com Verified Buyer Neither of the units scanned channels properly. Most channels were locked. An icon shaped like a padlock appeared where the channel should have been. This was very disappointing in veiw of the fact that the units had very economical pricetags.
Was this comment helpful? yes no (0 people found this comment helpful, 0 did not)	Paul Mittelsteadt on 10/23/2010


Meritline.com Verified Buyer I ordered this HDTV Tuner again for my second PC. It set up well and was working in no time. The remote however is worthless...doesn't work at all even with a fresh battery.
Was this comment helpful? yes no (0 people found this comment helpful, 0 did not)	Pete Holanda on 10/15/2010


Meritline.com Verified Buyer Long story short don't buy this. Included antenna has never picked up a station - no matter where I am. Once hooked up to my digital antenna it picked up some stations, but not as many as my TV's do. The included software is a joke. I recorded an hour long show and it took 6.86GB of hard drive space. I am sure I could have encoded the file and significatly reduced its size, but who wants to go through that kind of effort every time they want to record a show? The software said there were two tuners and asked if I wanted to use both, but I can't figure out how that is supposed to work. If I am recording a show all the other options get greyed out. You can't pause or rewind a live show (no real suprise here). While the included remote does technically work it doesn't work well since the device is plugged into the back of my computer (it's IR so it needs line of sight). If all you want to do is watch a single live show from an antenna installed your roof this device is
Was this comment helpful? yes no (0 people found this comment helpful, 0 did not)	Luke on 10/11/2010


Meritline.com Verified Buyer works great...downloaded and installed the latest s/w from the product page on meritline for my win7 and was able to catch all channels in my area - great package.. haven't tested the remote as yet as i have a IR keyboard..
Was this comment helpful? yes no (0 people found this comment helpful, 0 did not)	sriram r on 10/10/2010


Meritline.com Verified Buyer here's the trick i use to obtain channels, start with bigger antenna that you normally use on ur home TV. i was able to get ~57 channels (~ same as using home TV's) once the A680 USB found and registered these channels in my computer, i then switch to the included small antenna. i am happy to report that i was about to get 80% of channels (need to move the small one around) Very happy with my ~$19 purchase. more info: 1. Location: Cerritos, CA, USA 2. OS: Windows 7, use Windows Media Center. (it walks u through getting the channels : ) 3. computer: Lenovo Thinkpad X100e, 2GB RAM. 4. antenna: next to window, but still on desk next to my notebook i set it up right before the new show "The EVENT" and recored the whole show with very high Quality using Windows Media Center. remote acts a bit strange, but the most basic functions work for me..so. last year's thanksgiving i didn't get the Free after $30 rebate @ Fry's(dif. brand) but it didn't have W7 WMC driver ready
Was this comment helpful? yes no (0 people found this comment helpful, 0 did not)	watterson_n_hobbes on 10/9/2010


Meritline.com Verified Buyer This tuner was purchased to operate under Vista 32 Media center. It installed the drivers automatically and tunes the local channels flawlessly. An excellent product for an excellent price.
Was this comment helpful? yes no (0 people found this comment helpful, 0 did not)	Doug Hiland on 10/3/2010


Did not work for me, originally got 1 channel from my cable line, went back got nothing, restarted pc a few tv and did rescans no signal found. I'm going to return this and get a better tuner Flag
Was this comment helpful? yes no (0 people found this comment helpful, 0 did not)	Tina on 10/2/2010


Meritline.com Verified Buyer Worked for about 30 minutes. Originally found all my over the air channels ad I watched 1 show. Then I shut down, booted up later to record something and now it finds no channels. Did repeated scans with no luck. Hooked up to my cable from my tv (OTA - get 18 channels) and I still get nothing - even though my TV does. Hopefully I can return
Was this comment helpful? yes no (0 people found this comment helpful, 0 did not)	Brian Nordberg on 10/2/2010


Meritline.com Verified Buyer Can't get it work yet, i already send email to Customer service with attached my laptop information and window media center pages, which shown that it catch no signal. Please tell the way to fix it.
Was this comment helpful? yes no (0 people found this comment helpful, 0 did not)	Petchratn Choksatitgul on 9/28/2010


Meritline.com Verified Buyer This unit did not work as stated. Would not work when I attached cable to unit. Found only one channel. Very disapointed it did not work. will return this unit and shop around.
Was this comment helpful? yes no (0 people found this comment helpful, 0 did not)	Dan Rivas on 9/18/2010


Meritline.com Verified Buyer nice unit...right price...very happy
Was this comment helpful? yes no (0 people found this comment helpful, 0 did not)	PAUL F JONES on 9/18/2010


Meritline.com Verified Buyer so far its okay works pretty good
Was this comment helpful? yes no (0 people found this comment helpful, 0 did not)	Delbert Thomas on 9/18/2010


Meritline.com Verified Buyer Works great in Orlando, Florida.
Was this comment helpful? yes no (0 people found this comment helpful, 0 did not)	Gerardo Gonzalez on 9/18/2010


Meritline.com Verified Buyer 1. good price 2. use easy 3. picture is perpect 4. but remote is not good
Was this comment helpful? yes no (0 people found this comment helpful, 0 did not)	seung lee on 9/18/2010


Meritline.com Verified Buyer Used as ATSC tuner in NPVR (www.gbpvr.com). Software recognized the tuner instantly and the tuner works perfectly. I am using Windows XP Media Center edition for an operating system. Recordings are every bit the same as my Hauppauge HVR-1600 tuner. Highly recommend this tuner. I have not tested the tuner as a QAM tuner.
Was this comment helpful? yes no (0 people found this comment helpful, 0 did not)	st on 9/13/2010


Don't expect how come suce a cheap staff can catch so many hi-def channels. I am really happy for its performance, and if there is another model without remote I will prefer to buy for I nearly don't use the remote at all.
Was this comment helpful? yes no (0 people found this comment helpful, 0 did not)	Peter on 9/11/2010


Meritline.com Verified Buyer Great product, installed without any issues. I use Windows Media Player, the device was seen by my Windows OS and configuring Media Player was easy. All together a non-event, works well
Was this comment helpful? yes no (0 people found this comment helpful, 0 did not)	B Bexell on 9/10/2010


Meritline.com Verified Buyer Doesn't work and doesn't capture any HD channels
Was this comment helpful? yes no (0 people found this comment helpful, 0 did not)	Ankur sharma on 9/9/2010


Meritline.com Verified Buyer woorks as specified.
Was this comment helpful? yes no (0 people found this comment helpful, 0 did not)	Michael Hughes on 8/30/2010


Meritline.com Verified Buyer I use comcast digital cable and have a new studio Dell laptop. This tuner did not find many of the stations on my cable... found about 20 of 110 channels.
Was this comment helpful? yes no (0 people found this comment helpful, 0 did not)	thomas cortese on 8/30/2010


Meritline.com Verified Buyer works well...excellent price
Was this comment helpful? yes no (0 people found this comment helpful, 0 did not)	PAUL F JONES on 8/29/2010


Meritline.com Verified Buyer Not great reception from the included antenna. I bought it for a glorified netbook(Inspiron 11Z) and finding and installing the correct drivers from the disk or their (Mygica's) website could have been easier.
Was this comment helpful? yes no (0 people found this comment helpful, 0 did not)	who on 8/28/2010


Meritline.com Verified Buyer I just can't get this to work no matter what I try or what computer I try it on. I have built 4 computers so I know what I'm doing. I must have gotten a bad one.
Was this comment helpful? yes no (0 people found this comment helpful, 0 did not)	Jeffrey Piersons on 8/28/2010


Meritline.com Verified Buyer Sucker works, but it was decidedly NOT easy to install. No instructions whatsoever, and some funky bad menu layouts on the software. Overall, if I'd paid more for it, I'd be upset. As it is, I got what I paid for.
Was this comment helpful? yes no (0 people found this comment helpful, 0 did not)	James Shaffer on 8/27/2010


Meritline.com Verified Buyer The product was not at what I thought it would be. I've had ATI Wonder USB 2.0 which was easy to get running with my Time Warner cable(NYC) when I had Vista but when I upgraded to Win 7 there were no driver upgrade available. So i needed another this does not work at all for me I salute all the people who got it working. But as far as Meritline, they were as good as anyone expected, I e-mailed my complaint they apoligized and e-mailed a Return merchandise sticker to return the product within two days so the product stunk but Meritline was great.
Was this comment helpful? yes no (0 people found this comment helpful, 0 did not)	Robert Jackowski on 8/27/2010


Meritline.com Verified Buyer it was as described. received in a reasonable time from order. Price was good.
Was this comment helpful? yes no (0 people found this comment helpful, 0 did not)	Martin Belinsky on 8/21/2010


Meritline.com Verified Buyer Bought 2 months ago, just opened today to find that it doesn't work with either clear cable or OTA. Very bad. Can't return as it passed return date. Save your money, buy something else.
Was this comment helpful? yes no (0 people found this comment helpful, 0 did not)	Hoang on 8/20/2010


Meritline.com Verified Buyer I purchased the tuner in hopes of connecting my cable to the unit and watching TV thru my computer. The tuner never was able to find any channels. Reloaded the software over and over with no luck. It did find one channel with the enclosed antenna. Would not recommend this product.
Was this comment helpful? yes no (0 people found this comment helpful, 0 did not)	Dan Rivas on 8/18/2010


Meritline.com Verified Buyer it was worth the price. Got it for 19.99$
Was this comment helpful? yes no (0 people found this comment helpful, 0 did not)	Arun Raj on 8/18/2010


Meritline.com Verified Buyer Device did not work out of box with Windows Media Center on Windows Ultimate...
Was this comment helpful? yes no (0 people found this comment helpful, 0 did not)	Youri on 8/17/2010


Meritline.com Verified Buyer Steer clear of this product. When it does pick up signals the quality is HD, and it records fine about 1/3 of the time. It took over 2 hours to scan through my Clear QAM channels, and right around channel 384 the program crashes. There is no way to manually add channels, so I can't get anything above 384. It also does not always turn on. There is a black screen and I have to switch to another channel and try again.
Was this comment helpful? yes no (0 people found this comment helpful, 0 did not)	Bill Murphy on 8/16/2010


Meritline.com Verified Buyer Very good product, I recommend this for anyone who wants to watch television from their computer.
Was this comment helpful? yes no (0 people found this comment helpful, 0 did not)	Dale Gray on 8/13/2010


Meritline.com Verified Buyer Work great and good price !
Was this comment helpful? yes no (0 people found this comment helpful, 0 did not)	Tuan Nguyen on 8/13/2010


Meritline.com Verified Buyer works good.
Was this comment helpful? yes no (0 people found this comment helpful, 0 did not)	Ashvin Patel on 8/13/2010


Meritline.com Verified Buyer Great Product
Was this comment helpful? yes no (0 people found this comment helpful, 0 did not)	Durral Evans on 8/10/2010


Meritline.com Verified Buyer The unit works fine but the coax connector broke the first time I went to use it.
Was this comment helpful? yes no (0 people found this comment helpful, 0 did not)	Steve Moody on 8/10/2010


Meritline.com Verified Buyer For under $20 with a coupon, it may be worth it. Installation takes forever because the channel scanner is sooooo slow in scanning 300+ channels. The first time the channel scanner ran it found no channels. The second and third time it crashed. Finally, the fourth time it completed successfully but only found about a dozen channels on my cable system. Will run it a fifth time to see if it will find more. Bottom line I wouldn't rush out to get one.
Was this comment helpful? yes no (0 people found this comment helpful, 0 did not)	Bill N on 8/7/2010


Meritline.com Verified Buyer I gets hot in usb port and sometimes it will not come on.
Was this comment helpful? yes no (0 people found this comment helpful, 0 did not)	Robert Hall on 8/2/2010


Meritline.com Verified Buyer not as expected. got hard time to set it up
Was this comment helpful? yes no (0 people found this comment helpful, 0 did not)	Haitham khanji on 8/2/2010


Meritline.com Verified Buyer It did what it said but it could't even get half my channel even with the tv antenna off my big tv
Was this comment helpful? yes no (0 people found this comment helpful, 0 did not)	James Tennison on 8/2/2010


Very irritating product. Over the air does not work, analog does not work. QAM works sporadically but mostly incompatable with WMC. Been trying for month to get it to work with no luck...
Was this comment helpful? yes no (0 people found this comment helpful, 0 did not)	Kris Minogue on 8/2/2010


Meritline.com Verified Buyer Piece of junk. Does not work. Can't get any QAM or ATSC chanel at all. Spent countless hours trying to tune and when it finally done, it said chanel is locked. I give up.
Was this comment helpful? yes no (0 people found this comment helpful, 0 did not)	AN NGUYEN on 8/2/2010


Meritline.com Verified Buyer I bought this tuner so that I could have record two events simultaneously. My first tuner is the ATI HD750. However, I could not get the Mygica to install on my windows 7 64-bit machine. After emailing Mygica's customer support for the better part of a week, I gave up after crashing my system with the last attempt. The Mygica drivers were in conflict with Nvidia drivers. Meritline's customer service was excellent and I had no problem returning the product. Hope you have better luck.
Was this comment helpful? yes no (0 people found this comment helpful, 0 did not)	Frank on 8/1/2010


Meritline.com Verified Buyer Piece of crap! Incapable of drawing stations broadcasting less than 10 miles away! I am sorry but I cannot recommend to any one to buy it. But Meritline took it back with a restocking fee of course...
Was this comment helpful? yes no (0 people found this comment helpful, 0 did not)	Julius Jahnke on 7/25/2010


Meritline.com Verified Buyer I bought this to replace my KWorld unit. The HDTV portion was DOA. Tried it on several machines, Vista and XP. It found zero channels even with an external antenna. Going to return this one. At least the KWorld one worked for a while. Meritline shipped fast though.
Was this comment helpful? yes no (0 people found this comment helpful, 0 did not)	negusm on 7/20/2010


Meritline.com Verified Buyer Hardware itself is ok. I was able to download the driver and make it work with Window Media Center and watching TV from Clear QAM on Windows 7. Just be aware that Chinese made driver is very poor and doesn't play well with other USB drivers such as my Western Digital external USB-based HDD and it no longer works because of TV tuner. I was forced to use firwire instead to workaround the interference. I would not recommend this product to anyone because very poor driver software.
Was this comment helpful? yes no (0 people found this comment helpful, 0 did not)	Z on 7/17/2010


Great product for the price. Remote is a little weak. But Media (win 7) center setup was a breeze.
Was this comment helpful? yes no (0 people found this comment helpful, 0 did not)	chandra on 7/17/2010


Meritline.com Verified Buyer Works will with Window 7 64-bit. Integrated into Media Center with no problems. Tuner received all expected local stations with outdoor antenna. Overall, definitely worth the price paid.
Was this comment helpful? yes no (0 people found this comment helpful, 0 did not)	Andrew Dingwall on 7/8/2010


Meritline.com Verified Buyer very limited. Only get 12-15 HTDV channels over the air, I get allot more through my HDTV itself. Waste of money.
Was this comment helpful? yes no (0 people found this comment helpful, 0 did not)	James Hamilton on 7/8/2010


Meritline.com Verified Buyer Works well, gets a little warm and picky about connection, have good cables. Meritline ships like the wind....
Was this comment helpful? yes no (0 people found this comment helpful, 0 did not)	Steve Michalski on 7/6/2010


Meritline.com Verified Buyer Documentation wasn't very clear regarding the installation process. The setup configurations didn't seem to stick and I couldn't get a reception signal. I thought I had defective equipment, but the second installation seems to be working okay. Still learning the software capabilities. Hopefully the PDF manual will help me work out the kinks.
Was this comment helpful? yes no (0 people found this comment helpful, 0 did not)	Jerry Andersen on 7/5/2010


Meritline.com Verified Buyer It did manage to pick up a few channels. Not as many as I expected. Quality was good. Probably buy it again.
Was this comment helpful? yes no (0 people found this comment helpful, 0 did not)	vabucki on 7/5/2010


Meritline.com Verified Buyer Great price, fast delivery!
Was this comment helpful? yes no (0 people found this comment helpful, 0 did not)	Cecil Watson on 7/5/2010


Meritline.com Verified Buyer The software (driver) that came with the Mygica A680B tuner was old and did not work. I was able to download an updated driver from Meritline and after installing the driver, the tuner worked wonderfully.
Was this comment helpful? yes no (0 people found this comment helpful, 0 did not)	Reynaldo Matias on 7/5/2010


Meritline.com Verified Buyer Excellent product. It works great!
Was this comment helpful? yes no (0 people found this comment helpful, 0 did not)	Gustavo Fernandez on 7/4/2010


Meritline.com Verified Buyer Has a very poor tuner.It takes a very strong signal to produce a picture.The included antenna is useless.Even what I know are strong signal channels won't come in.It works good with an amplified antenna or cable.Since it takes a really strong signal source to make a picture,the Mygica HDTV tuner is worthless for what it was intended.
Was this comment helpful? yes no (0 people found this comment helpful, 0 did not)	Johnnie Simpson on 6/26/2010


Meritline.com Verified Buyer the product it is ok for the money not the best
Was this comment helpful? yes no (0 people found this comment helpful, 0 did not)	Joe Lopez on 6/26/2010


Meritline.com Verified Buyer This product worked exactly as described. Yes, the antenna was crappy, but I just substituted a pair of rabbit ears I had and wasn't using. The reception is no better and no worse than on my big screen television, which is also on antenna. The recording feature is great. I find no reason to use the remote, so I don't know about that feature.
Was this comment helpful? yes no (0 people found this comment helpful, 0 did not)	Meade Bollard on 6/23/2010


Meritline.com Verified Buyer Should work with cable or satellite TV, does not work with Antenna.My ATI USB TV stick picked up 5 channels, using the same antenna barely picked up 1 with weak signal. Not worth it unless you want to use it with cabel TV only.Spend a little more for ATI.
Was this comment helpful? yes no (0 people found this comment helpful, 0 did not)	DK on 6/19/2010


Meritline.com Verified Buyer Item is okay. The software takes a good amount of memory. So I cannot actually run on my 1GB RAM memory laptop. Anthena is weak. You should be good hooking up a more powerful anthena
Was this comment helpful? yes no (0 people found this comment helpful, 0 did not)	William Ramirez on 6/18/2010


Meritline.com Verified Buyer Excellent Best item !!!
Was this comment helpful? yes no (0 people found this comment helpful, 0 did not)	RONGHUI LIN on 6/16/2010


Meritline.com Verified Buyer The product does not work at all. Its antenna receive no signal, and it does not hook up with time Warner either. he TV tuner gets only 6 channels of more than 50 channels from Time Warner. The only reason I still keep it is that return shipping costs too much. Never jump into this scrap.
Was this comment helpful? yes no (0 people found this comment helpful, 0 did not)	Robert on 6/16/2010


Meritline.com Verified Buyer It worked as promised. I was able to find around 20 stations from the Comcast basic cable service (the other stations are all locked up). It's fairly easy to setup. Enabling hardware acceleration (Setup -> General) is important for getting good performance. Locating all the stations can take a bit of time. EPG is available from the internet. Highly recommended!
Was this comment helpful? yes no (0 people found this comment helpful, 0 did not)	S. Li on 6/16/2010


Meritline.com Verified Buyer For $20 this is a great HDTV tuner. Even the crappy antenna that comes with it works well enough to pull in most of my local stations. The provided software also works pretty well. Only negative is it wasn't recognized as a standard windows capture device so I couldn't figure out how to set it up for live streaming. This may be possible though however I don't know how to set it up as such.
Was this comment helpful? yes no (0 people found this comment helpful, 0 did not)	Sung Shim on 6/15/2010


Meritline.com Verified Buyer Worked as stated.
Was this comment helpful? yes no (0 people found this comment helpful, 0 did not)	Jon Cheney on 6/13/2010


Meritline.com Verified Buyer Pros: SW interface fairly good with nice features. Harware is good for the price. I like the options of what format to save it in. I could not get the grid to work correctly for broadcast channels. Cons: No time shift, cannot watch a time shifted program while recording. This can be fixed with software or perhaps windows7. Conclusion: Perhaps you can get this to work better with 3rd party software? Hardware seems to work fine. Worth $20.
Was this comment helpful? yes no (0 people found this comment helpful, 0 did not)	brian kirkish on 6/12/2010


The unit arrived in great condition and the installation of updated and revised drivers from the manufacturer's website and software install went very smoothly. The unit was unable to recognize more than 3 channels with supplied antenna and when plugged into an amplified HD antenna this went to 26 channels. The Arcsoft supplied software was basically useless, as the recognized channels would not play using this bundled software. The native Media Center software in Win 7 64bit OS was also able to recognize and even play the channels. There was no joy however because the images were halting with jerky pixel dropout moments. A pain to watch and even worse if you were going to record the show for later. The unit did this when in USB 2 or tried as a last resort USB 3 ports. My machine is a very fast gaming machine with AMD Phenom II X4 955 3.2 Ghz CPU and 8 Gigs of RAM and Nvidia 9800 Video Card w 1 Gig of Video Ram so this unit's performance was quite disappointing to say t
Was this comment helpful? yes no (0 people found this comment helpful, 0 did not)	Julius on 6/12/2010


Meritline.com Verified Buyer Exceeded my expectations. It gets a good reception with just a rabbit ear antenna. Very good HD quality. It can record what it can receive. Number of channel received is rather small but still a good deal.
Was this comment helpful? yes no (0 people found this comment helpful, 0 did not)	Parstron on 6/12/2010


Meritline.com Verified Buyer I'm able to get the basic over the air channels, but not the extra channels that come with ABC , NBC or CBS. I still can't get the cable to work. Using vista 64 bit.
Was this comment helpful? yes no (0 people found this comment helpful, 0 did not)	C S on 6/12/2010


Meritline.com Verified Buyer nice product picks up all the channels my tv does
Was this comment helpful? yes no (0 people found this comment helpful, 0 did not)	KH on 6/11/2010


Meritline.com Verified Buyer Tuner works great, the software works fine. The antenna is not so good. But for this kinda money I would not complain at all. Meritline is reliable as always.
Was this comment helpful? yes no (0 people found this comment helpful, 0 did not)	Dean Parkhurst on 6/6/2010


I am using this on home built, Asus P5K-VM, 8GB Ram, Windows 7 Ultimate 64bit. You may hit one website where this is documented and where you can download the latest drivers, meritline...Here are some helpful hints and what I was able to get to work and what you may not want to try because it doesn't work. The only reason I am giving this one less star is because I had to compile information from everywhere and the remote is useless i.e. they should just send this product without remote, it doesn't work, DOA, bad design, well known problem. Of course don't expect tech support, well written manuals. If I am rating this as a novice user, I would give it 3 stars. Connected the tuner to my usb port, driver failed to install. As suggested, do not use the enclosed DVD for anything except the Remote IR driver. If you can't find it, wait till you install the new Win7 driver from meritline. Do not use the driver from the DVD else it will default to antenna, no cable, and therefore no Q
Was this comment helpful? yes no (0 people found this comment helpful, 0 did not)	SH on 6/5/2010


Meritline.com Verified Buyer Works good go to this website for more channels if you have a cable connection. http://www.wegotserved.com/2009/08/30/windows-7-media-center-and-digital-programming/ Helps allot
Was this comment helpful? yes no (0 people found this comment helpful, 0 did not)	Stevix on 5/29/2010


Meritline.com Verified Buyer works great, nice software
Was this comment helpful? yes no (0 people found this comment helpful, 0 did not)	Craig Howard on 5/29/2010


Meritline.com Verified Buyer Use this on a decent power laptop or desktop with plenty of memory. Use Windows media Center standard on win7 to use this device. Win Media center is an excellent product for tv control and recording. Antenna with unit stinks. I had a different portable antenna I used.
Was this comment helpful? yes no (0 people found this comment helpful, 0 did not)	robertw on 5/25/2010


Meritline.com Verified Buyer Did not worked with my cable, I am in Los Angeles Pasadena Area. Tried both cable and over the air. Did not showed even the signal strength.
Was this comment helpful? yes no (0 people found this comment helpful, 0 did not)	Hamid Ahmed on 5/25/2010


Meritline.com Verified Buyer Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit. - Installed all software and drivers per instructions. - Connected device and it was installed successfully. - Rebooted. - Started the ArcSoft Total Media and scanned for channels. Found about 37. Everything work fine ... EXCEPT ... The remote control driver. In the Task Manager-Processes, the "TV IR.exe" was eating my memory. It went from 10mb to 1gb in about 1 minute and kept climbing. I'll try this newly posted driver update to see if it resolves it. Otherwise it works great.
Was this comment helpful? yes no (0 people found this comment helpful, 0 did not)	zen on 5/24/2010


Meritline.com Verified Buyer Well let me start off that this order was a complete fail. Im not sure if I misread the product description but it didnt work with my cable service. Our cable only has some of its channels digital. I do understand that digital is different than analog signal but still dispointed nonetheless
Was this comment helpful? yes no (0 people found this comment helpful, 1 did not)	Joshua Burby on 5/23/2010


Meritline.com Verified Buyer Didn't work on either my Windows 7 or Windows XP machine. DOA. Not worth my time to RMA.
Was this comment helpful? yes no (0 people found this comment helpful, 0 did not)	Jason Kenworthy on 5/23/2010


Meritline.com Verified Buyer I think it performs within what was promised, but I was disappointed. My roommate has a TV with a clear QAM tuner which pulls down 150 channels using the same coax connection I use. I cannot get them through the A680B, which only shows them as locked. Whatever is blocking the reception makes it inadequate to my purposes. If I had known that, I would not have purchased it.
Was this comment helpful? yes no (0 people found this comment helpful, 0 did not)	ron hall on 5/22/2010


Meritline.com Verified Buyer Works great, plug & play easy. Supplied antenna does the job, but cheapest RadioShack antenna brings in every channel in the area. GOOD Product.
Was this comment helpful? yes no (0 people found this comment helpful, 0 did not)	Tom Hawkins on 5/22/2010


Meritline.com Verified Buyer Think twice before you order this Mygica A680B USB tv tuner. There is no technical support toll free number in case you needed. any technical problem with this tuner you are on your own !
Was this comment helpful? yes no (0 people found this comment helpful, 0 did not)	Luong Huynh on 5/20/2010


Don't waste your money! This thing just doesn't work!
Was this comment helpful? yes no (0 people found this comment helpful, 0 did not)	Nihoole on 5/19/2010


Meritline.com Verified Buyer This thing looked great, had great reviews, but I installed it using the provided drivers on the website and I can't get any signals. Yes, the provided antennae was junk, so I opted for a little more hefty one. I have no problem receiving over the air signal on my TV, but neither windows media center or the Arcsoft Total Media could get any channels and I tried SEVERAL times! Don't waste your money, get something that's by a known manufacturer. I even went to the mfr website to download drivers, and NONE of them available to download!
Was this comment helpful? yes no (0 people found this comment helpful, 0 did not)	Bielzebub on 5/13/2010


Meritline.com Verified Buyer Works very well. Included antenna is useless unless you are within a few miles of transmission. Remote is "ok" at best. Is not compatable with my desktop's existing ATI digital dual tuner. Worked on laptop with WIN XP MCE (1.8GHz, 1 MB RAM) where Hauppauge TV HD stick would not.
Was this comment helpful? yes no (0 people found this comment helpful, 0 did not)	Eddie Kutschat on 5/10/2010


Meritline.com Verified Buyer Fare: Tried it on 3 computers. Worked ok on one.
Was this comment helpful? yes no (0 people found this comment helpful, 0 did not)	James Berry on 5/10/2010


Meritline.com Verified Buyer Tuner and software performs as expected, but the antenna is weak. I recognize the convenience of an omnidirectional antenna, but its short height and polarization attenuates signals, rather then adds gain. Unless you are close to transmitters and/or unobstructed, you will have to replaced it in order to receive all local signals.
Was this comment helpful? yes no (0 people found this comment helpful, 0 did not)	Craig Rubin on 5/10/2010


Meritline.com Verified Buyer Works well with Windows 7. Pulls a good signal from distant locations. Full 1080i recording can be taxing on an Atom processor.
Was this comment helpful? yes no (0 people found this comment helpful, 0 did not)	Randy Jones on 5/10/2010


Meritline.com Verified Buyer Works well, if you have a newer PC. On my older PC running Win 7 I installed drivers from both CD and website and had to plug it in and unplug it a few times, reboot some, and try diff USB ports before it finally correctly loaded drivers. On the new Win7 64bit laptop I installed drivers from the CD and it worked when inserted the first time, and WMC found it and it tuned in all the local stations I expected. Verify your antenna strength with a TV first before connecting to this stick; don't blame the stick if you don't have good reception, get a rooftop antenna instead.
Was this comment helpful? yes no (0 people found this comment helpful, 0 did not)	rob on 5/5/2010


Meritline.com Verified Buyer i use it on my Acer Aspire One netbook and the picture is beautiful on screen and I really like the ArcSoft Total media software that controls the TV tuner. The position of the antenna is necessary for good reception depending on where you are so I may look for a stronger antenna for it eventually, but very happy overall. Thanks
Was this comment helpful? yes no (0 people found this comment helpful, 0 did not)	David Spong on 5/1/2010


Meritline.com Verified Buyer after i install software hard drive space starts diappearing off my pc until its full.
Was this comment helpful? yes no (0 people found this comment helpful, 0 did not)	alonzo peterkin on 5/1/2010


Meritline.com Verified Buyer It's not working. Keep getting invalid key from the CD.
Was this comment helpful? yes no (0 people found this comment helpful, 0 did not)	John on 4/28/2010


This product is great! Fast shipping and it was home and plugged in before I knew it!It picked up 11 channels straight away but I followed other reviews and bought an amplified indoor antenna and I got 24 more channels.Wow!Best is to plug into outdoor antenna or tv cable.Some of channels were repeats but I was still very happy.I got all major channels that I am looking for.Just make sure to move the antenna to a higher location near the window for best signal.The remote and antennae isn't that great but for the price it's still a great deal.Buy this with a stronger antennae and you are set!!!Great picture quality and easy to use interface.
Was this comment helpful? yes no (0 people found this comment helpful, 0 did not)	Liz on 4/27/2010


Meritline.com Verified Buyer The product was perfect to watch TV on your PC/Laptop. Unfortunately, my laptop is very old and not compitibale with this tuner so I return it. In the future, If I have latest laptop, i will buy this product again!
Was this comment helpful? yes no (0 people found this comment helpful, 1 did not)	Shailesh Patel on 4/26/2010


Meritline.com Verified Buyer Super item!!!
Was this comment helpful? yes no (0 people found this comment helpful, 0 did not)	RONGHUI LIN on 4/19/2010


Meritline.com Verified Buyer Technically it works but only with the antenna. It does not work with the coaxial cable. I guess you get what you pay for.
Was this comment helpful? yes no (0 people found this comment helpful, 0 did not)	LUCY HARDESTY on 4/17/2010


Meritline.com Verified Buyer I received this item in 2 days! I like the TV tuner, but the antenna didn't do anything for me. It's a flimsy stick that didn't pick up anything. So I connected the roof antenna to the TV tuner and it works perfectly. It's like a cheap TIVO, and the HD channels are beautiful. Now I see how I'm supposed to really view my shows. And what I love is that I can record TV shows that I otherwise would miss. I use windows mediaplayer to watch TV with this device, instead of the included software. They both work fine, but I just prefer the interface of the windows mediaplayer. I only pick up channels that I normally receive on the TV, but I don't have cable anyway so it's not like I expected to. It's a neat little device, and I mainly purchased it for the recording function. I use it with my Windows 7 32bit computer. The remote works fine as well, but I just don't really use it.
Was this comment helpful? yes no (0 people found this comment helpful, 0 did not)	Helen on 4/16/2010


Meritline.com Verified Buyer Great deal, works awesome, software is top notch. 1080 is wonderful on my big notebook. Best deal on the net
Was this comment helpful? yes no (0 people found this comment helpful, 0 did not)	Bruce on 4/11/2010


Meritline.com Verified Buyer The item worked great. The antenna picked up the signal quickly. Installation was also an ease. Worth the money.
Was this comment helpful? yes no (0 people found this comment helpful, 0 did not)	Steven Bui on 4/10/2010


Works great both on my XP desktop and my Windows 7 laptop. Great deal!
Was this comment helpful? yes no (0 people found this comment helpful, 0 did not)	TV watcher on 4/9/2010


Meritline.com Verified Buyer 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.
Was this comment helpful? yes no (0 people found this comment helpful, 0 did not)	David Repsher on 4/4/2010


Meritline.com Verified Buyer the card works well, however, the remoter seems not working. Anyway, it is OK to live without the remoter,since the card is working with my laptop, and I have to turn my lappy off after watching the TV.
Was this comment helpful? yes no (0 people found this comment helpful, 1 did not)	shiyun xu on 4/3/2010


Meritline.com Verified Buyer The product is easy enough to set up and use. The antenna that is included is weak and worthless. I use a better antenna and I get loads of HD channels. I am pretty happy with the HDTV Tuner.
Was this comment helpful? yes no (0 people found this comment helpful, 0 did not)	Phyllis Bass on 4/3/2010


Meritline.com Verified Buyer I connected a cable that I use for my television to watch basic cable. I updated all the software and the only channel that worked was a hickey channel. I was unable to watch the same cable tv that I could on my tv. Item returned.
Was this comment helpful? yes no (0 people found this comment helpful, 1 did not)	Jason Damavandi on 4/3/2010


Meritline.com Verified Buyer I have a dual-core processor, 2gb ram and XP. The Magica turner works fine with the analog final but had problems with QAM signals from my cable company. It may work fine after I have just scanned and searched channels, but next time I turn on the computer it cannot stably receive the same channel signals. I am disappointed as my main purpose to buy it is to pick up the HD QAM signal.
Was this comment helpful? yes no (0 people found this comment helpful, 0 did not)	gene chang on 4/3/2010


Meritline.com Verified Buyer Tuner reception poor, remote works, but accesses the wrong function about 50% of the time
Was this comment helpful? yes no (0 people found this comment helpful, 0 did not)	Andrew Lipps on 4/3/2010


Meritline.com Verified Buyer I was expecting to be disappointed by some cheap crap, but this may be, for the money, the best thing I have ever bought. I just plain works. The antenna is crap, but get over it, when has anything TV related ever come with a decent antenna? This thing is built well, the drivers work, the software works... I was shocked. Most computer hardware never works right, costs too much, etc. Freakin' awesome. If I had a reason to buy more, I would.
Was this comment helpful? yes no (0 people found this comment helpful, 0 did not)	Dustin on 3/29/2010


Meritline.com Verified Buyer This item works as advertised. The reception for over the air is really good. I recommend this tuner.
Was this comment helpful? yes no (0 people found this comment helpful, 0 did not)	Ed Wyche on 3/29/2010


Meritline.com Verified Buyer IT WORKS ON MOST NY HD stations, Depending on your location.
Was this comment helpful? yes no (0 people found this comment helpful, 0 did not)	Joseph Crimi on 3/15/2010


Meritline.com Verified Buyer It works as the description, I think is a excellent deal for that price
Was this comment helpful? yes no (0 people found this comment helpful, 0 did not)	pedro rincon on 3/15/2010


Meritline.com Verified Buyer The software was easy to install. However the antenna was not that sensitive. It only picked up 2 out of 4 major public TV stations in my area. Time setting for TV program recording was easy to schedule. The editing program was not that user friendly though. Overall this is a low cost HD TV tuner for computer with a reasonable value.
Was this comment helpful? yes no (0 people found this comment helpful, 0 did not)	macedonian86 on 3/15/2010


Meritline.com Verified Buyer I have mixed feelings about this product. I installed it on an Acer Aspire Net Book, 2 gig ram, running Windows 7. When working, the picture quality was great. While using the included antenna the channel selection was limited to about 3 1/2. When connected to an outdoor antenna I was able to receive upwards of 10. I live in the sticks and was pleased it did as well as my set top box. On the down side. The remote did not always want to work 'properly' and if I left the software running quietly in the sys tray, it seemed to bog down other applications that were running. When I shut down the program, and rebooted, the computer sped up to normal speed. I have everything set to manual start and am having no problems. Over all it a cool little gizmo that will let you watch TV darn near everywhere.
Was this comment helpful? yes no (0 people found this comment helpful, 0 did not)	Dean Dennis on 3/15/2010


Meritline.com Verified Buyer Works good with xp release 2, but which I could get drivers for 3
Was this comment helpful? yes no (0 people found this comment helpful, 0 did not)	James Stuart on 3/15/2010


Meritline.com Verified Buyer The device works great.
Was this comment helpful? yes no (0 people found this comment helpful, 1 did not)	Charels Huang on 3/14/2010


Meritline.com Verified Buyer I've installed the software just fine on a Windows XP machine, and a Windows 7 machine. The recording quality is excellent, but packaged software is buggy on both machines. Using the internet EPG (Programing Guide), most shows cannot be recorded as it says the given channel is not on the list even though they are. Using the DTV EPG, you only get an hour or two advanced programming which isn't very helpful. Can't change settings for converting existing videos, but I wasn't expecting that ability anyway. If the web page that serves as the Internet EPG can be fixed, this will be a great product. I tried other "free" alternative programs, the TV Tuner worked but the software didn't.
Was this comment helpful? yes no (0 people found this comment helpful, 0 did not)	Robert??Lauer on 3/14/2010


Meritline.com Verified Buyer Junk. At first, detected 13 channels, they worked. Tried to view later, no signal. Tried to rescan - no signal. Tried cable - nothing detected there either. Tried to rescan both cable and antenna - always no signal.
Was this comment helpful? yes no (0 people found this comment helpful, 0 did not)	S on 3/10/2010


yeah,good product,perfect,I buy it last year, Now It work fine, thank meritline!
Was this comment helpful? yes no (0 people found this comment helpful, 0 did not)	jerry on 3/2/2010


Meritline.com Verified Buyer hardware works. software not no much
Was this comment helpful? yes no (0 people found this comment helpful, 0 did not)	Gary Prater on 2/7/2010


Fair value; but the center pin of the connector on the included antenna is too big to fit into the RF connector on the USB tuner. Very strange.
Was this comment helpful? yes no (0 people found this comment helpful, 0 did not)	M. Magers on 1/27/2010


I live IN Nashville. When I did the scan for channels, it recognized 22, but it will only play about 4. I did got the MAJOR network Fox for a while, 5 bar signal, but it stopped. I don't get CBS.
Was this comment helpful? yes no (0 people found this comment helpful, 0 did not)	Don on 1/27/2010


As an experienced user running Windows XP, this product is a great disappointment. The unit required many hours to setup and, even then, would only run as an analog tuner. The unit would not setup for QAM digital broadcasts. As for the product, the quality is poor (i.e. runs hot with a very snowy picture), has defective drivers, and non-existent tech support from MyGica. My repeated e-mails to MyGica went unanswered. The old maxim of "You get what you pay for" is certainly applicable here.
Was this comment helpful? yes no (0 people found this comment helpful, 0 did not)	Frank Vitale on 1/4/2010


Meritline.com Verified Buyer All local channels come in clear. The best tuner for the price I have seen so far. Total Media S/W works good after you learn how to use it.
Was this comment helpful? yes no (0 people found this comment helpful, 0 did not)	paul rees on 12/7/2009


Meritline.com Verified Buyer Very clear picture and the supplied antenna can get reception inside a work location with steel walls and roof. Would never get analog reception in this area. Very impressed at the quality for such a low price.
Was this comment helpful? yes no (0 people found this comment helpful, 0 did not)	Michael Dean on 12/6/2009


Meritline.com Verified Buyer This product is terrible. I can't get the software to load correctly to even try the product out. It has caused a lot of problems and I want to return it.
Was this comment helpful? yes no (0 people found this comment helpful, 0 did not)	James Coleman on 12/5/2009


Meritline.com Verified Buyer Small, functional, suitable for travel as well.
Was this comment helpful? yes no (0 people found this comment helpful, 1 did not)	Swenam Lee on 12/5/2009


does not work!!!
Was this comment helpful? yes no (0 people found this comment helpful, 1 did not)	Joe on 11/14/2009

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