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Summary: Portable tv tuner
Review: first it's picture quality is good.Also it has power backup from ps2 port.Easy to install software and hardware.But the antenna isn't powerful.
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Summary: piece of junk
Review: I have one of these lifeview tuners. I bought it because I travel quite extensively and wanted to watch TV occasionally while I worked. I have never been able to tune in to any television station with it. Even in areas with excellent television broadcast power. the picture is always full of static and the device is basicly useless.
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Summary: Buyer Beware
Review: If you want to buy a product that offers good customer service, then move on to another product. Every e-mail I've sent to Lifeview goes unanswered. The only response I've ever received is the confirmation when I placed my order online. The product and/or the driver is buggy, even the latest download from their website. For reference, I use Win 98 SE. The video locks up fairly regularly on my computer, and I have to shut down LifeView and restart it. About the 3rd restart will give you a BlueScreen error. And the kicker - if you capture video, it saves it as a huge AVI file, which almost every video-edit utility I've downloaded doesn't support their AVI format. I've tried all of their available formats & sample rates with the same results. This unit may be fine if all you want to do is tune in the occasional ballgame if it doesn't lock up on you. ...But being a computer professional, I feel I've tried everything reasonable to remedy these problems, and ended wasting a lot of time doing so.
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Summary: Some things to watch out for
Review: This is a nice way to watch TV on your notebook computer, but there are several precautions that one should be aware of. These precautions can be an awful hassel.It is strongly recommended that you download the latest version of the TV tuner's driver program from Lifeview's website. Don't use the driver program from the installation CD-ROM because the driver program from the CD-ROM is very buggy. Also, the notebook computer's USB port does not provide enough power to operate the TV Tuner. More power must be drawn from the external keyboard port using a special cable provided by the product. Finally, if one wants to hook-up a VCR or a device like the Playstation to the TV-tuner, one has to connect the VCR's or playstation's audio out to external speakers or to the audio-in of the computer's sound card. (Not all notebook computers have an audio-in connection).
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Summary: Some things to watch out for
Review: This is a nice way to watch TV on your notebook computer, but there are several precautions that one should be aware of. These precautions can be an awful hassel. It is strongly recommended that you download the latest version of the TV tuner's driver program from Lifeview's website. Don't use the driver program from the installation CD-ROM because the driver program from the CD-ROM is very buggy. Also, the notebook computer's USB port does not provide enough power to operate the TV Tuner. More power must be drawn from the external keyboard port using a special cable provided by the product. Finally, if one wants to hook-up a VCR or a device like the Playstation to the TV-tuner, one has to connect the VCR's or playstation's audio out to external speakers or to the audio-in of the computer's sound card. (Not all notebook computers have an audio-in connection).
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