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Monday, July 7, 2008
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The PCTV nanoStick is great value for money if you're looking for the smallest USB digital TV tuner on the market. But similar to other Pinnacle TV tuners we had a nightmare scanning for TV channels using the supplied antenna. Internet radio quality was quick and easy. After quickly glancing through Pinnacle's forums, it seems a lot of other users have problems scanning for channels - regardless of reception area. When we gave up and connected a rooftop aerial, video quality was good - even at full screen - and the added benefit of being able to trim videos and burn them onto DVD means you can watch recorded programs on the big screen once you get back to the comfort of your living room. Advanced users not needing to compromise on size should look at Pinnacle's PCTV Dual DVB-T Diversity Stick, which sports twin digital TV tuners so you can watch one channel while recording another or record two different channels at once. Overall, the PCTV nanoStick is an attractive package considering its size and price, but it comes with a serious caveat: you need to get the aerial in just the right position to work perfectly on all channels - or just ditch it and use a proper indoor aerial to get the best signal every time. But that's defeating the object, of course.
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Wednesday, June 18, 2008
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Pinnacle's PCTV range offers excellent value for money for avid TV viewers who lead busy lifestyles. It enables you to watch and record TV on your PC instead of being a slave to the living room TV or the TV schedule, and the fact that you get everything in the box means you don't have to worry about optional extras. Video quality is excellent, and the added benefit of being able to trim videos and burn them onto DVD means you can watch recorded programs on the big screen once you get back to the comfort of your living room. We also loved that twin digital TV tuners, allowing you to watch one channel while recording another or record two different channels at once. There are few digital TV tuners on the market which offer such a complete package for such a reasonable price. Here's hoping you don't have as much trouble as us scanning for channels.
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Wednesday, November 28, 2007
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Back in August, we had a look at the Pinnacle USB HDTV Tuner and while the concept was a decent one, the execution was quite poor and left me quite unsatisfied with my notebook-powered HDTV-watching experience. Pinnacle has followed up on that lesser product with a new model called the Pinnacle HD Ultimate Stick. This USB TV tuner improves on its predecessors in several ways, but is it enough to warrant a recommendation? Read on and find out.
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Tuesday, August 14, 2007
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Most USB TV tuners -- used primarily for laptops, because desktops can get TV tuner cards that plug directly into the motherboard -- are capable of grabbing standard definition television only. Such is not the case here. The Pinnacle PCTV HD Stick actually allows you to grab a free HDTV feed out of the air using the tiny antenna included in the package. Yes, HDTV for free and it's 100% legal. If you happen to find yourself at home, you can connect this TV tuner to the outlet in your wall as well, receiving all the channels that you normally would through a conventional cable or satellite set top box. It basically transforms your computer into a TV through a coaxial cable.
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Thursday, May 24, 2007
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There are three applications vying for the home video editing crown: Adobe's Premiere Elements, Corel's Ulead VideoStudio 11 Plus and the subject of this review, Pinnacle's Studio 11 Plus. Now owned by Avid, a major player in professional video editing on both the hardware and software sides, Pinnacle has gleaned some of the code from more expensive Avid applications in putting together this new version.
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Wednesday, September 20, 2006
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With a ShowCenter, you can curl up on the sofa or lay in bed and watch on TV the videos or stills stored on your PCs and listen to your computer-based digital music collection playing out of your hi-fi system or TV set.
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Saturday, February 12, 2005
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The Pro box proved to be a worthwhile enhancement to the Liquid Edition software, and very stable, too. Although, significant question marks remain over sync problems with analogue capture more than two months after our initial tests were carried out, it does look as though the pending 6.1 updater will resolve those, and, hopefully, some other audio issues as well.
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