Visiontek TV Wonder HD 650 USB Technical Details

Visiontek TV Wonder HD 650 USB Description

Visiontek TV Wonder HD 650 HDTV Tuner
The Visiontek TV Wonder 650 Combo USB TV tuner loads your system with a complete set of media abilities, transforming your PC or notebook into the ultimate entertainment system. The tuner is flexible enough to be used with either your laptop or desktop PC, and is a great complement for watching TV in Windows Media Center. Attach an amplified high definition antenna or your analog TV cable and you can watch, pause, or record high definition TV on your PC. Even analog TV is made brilliant by the advanced 3D Comb Filter that produces a high-end television and video content experience with true-to-life images. The Motion Adaptive 3D Comb Filter, Edge Enhancement and Noise Reduction work together to produce an ultra sharp, pure image that rivals high-end TV sets.

Two Built-In Tuners - Over-the-air Digital TV / HDTV (ATSC) - Over-the-air / Cable Analog TV (NTSC) - Clear-QAM (unscrambled) Digital HD Cable - FM Radio

ATI Theater Video Processing Technology - Hardware MPEG-2 compression - Motion Adaptive 3D Comb Filter - Automatic Color Control - Automatic Gain Control - Noise Reduction - Edge Enhancement

ATI Catalyst Media Center - Full PVR and time shifting functionality - DVD Playback Software - DVD Authoring Software - ATI Theater Video Converter

AMD LIVE! CD featuring AMD LIVE! On Demand - Watch, pause or schedule recordings - Access your PVR from a broadband-connected computer

Visiontek TV Wonder HD 650 USB Reviews

REVIEW BY: John Reviewed Mar 23, 2008

Device works great with Vista and Media Center. Just make sure you use a good antenna - just as you would with any HDTV tuner. I have multple tuners in one system and all work well with Visiontek TV Wonder HD 650 USB tuner also. Internal PCI based tuner is from Dell and is a dual Angel Standard Definition tuner. Another PCI tuner is the ATI HDTV TV Wonder. Purchased the USB 650 HDTV Tuner as a second HDTV tuner and plugged it in via the USB cable, went to the ATI site and downloaded the latest drivers (never install the drivers from the CD's as they are always out of date), rebooted the PC with the new drivers and then went straight into Media Center's setup for TV signal and let it do an automatic setup and everything has worked great. I can now watch HDTV and record at the same time or have two differnt extenders watching HDTV at the same time. Visiontek TV Wonder HD 650 USB tuner is on my short list if I ever setup another Media Center PC.

REVIEW BY: Reviewed Jan 07, 2008

The box works okay most of the time, but once in a while it has to be rebooted for no apparent reason if I have it hooked up with S-Video. Also, the included software did not work with the capture box--had to use Beyond TV instead. Think twice.

REVIEW BY: around-a-w Reviewed Feb 24, 2008

Looses HD Picture constantly. As a result, when you schedule a recording, you have no idea whether Visiontek TV Wonder HD 650 USB will record or not. As a result, DO NOT use this device as your PVR. When it works, it works fine. When it does not, it is a total waste. Mine works about 10% of the time. No support from ATI - so in my opinion, i just wasted $150.00. It took me longer that 30 days, so I am stuck and will throw it away.

REVIEW BY: Reviewed Jan 29, 2008

The drivers of this USB device are very sensitive to lost of communication. Any accidental disconnection of the usb cable or the power adapter can crash the computer. If you buy it for DTV, well... be sure to have a strong signal before scanning for channels because this box, or the software that comes with Visiontek TV Wonder HD 650 USB will not help you. Good picture quality, bad bad software...

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