WinTV-soloHD

I purchased this on 1st Apr 26 and it arrived the same day. It was also a good price, £44.90. I had been using the ebay cheap type, £10 or so but the signal pickup started playing up recently and getting me frustrated, so thought I would invest in a good name one. Set it up on my pc first, decent cpu, 32 gb memory, ssd drives. Took some time to set it up after downloading the software (as per the web address in the box - make sure you go to the .com not .uk site). It installed ok, the main setup time was channel scanning (keep the defaults all areas). I was using a usb powered ariel and amplifier. Got more channels including HD. Picture quality is v good, much better than old stick and thats the non hd channels, the hd ones are marvelous (the old stick did not get them). I then plugged in the small ariel that came in the box., I expected problems, but mostly it just buffered a bit before showing.The activation key is per tv stick, linked to that stick (I checked it out first). You can go through the same setup process with every laptop/pc you have if you like.So I also set it up on a small Medion touchscreen laptop I use on camping holidays, unusual in that it can charge/run from a 5 voltt powerbank so its ideal).The difference in specs is massive small slow cpu,4gb ram... v the pc and I installed it with the came with ariel I was not expecting much but was pleasently surprised (I will take the small amplified ariel when I camp though).The channel scanning/ software and components are far superior than the other cheapy ones. A big bonus is that it comes with the sottware to watch the tv unlike the cheapy ones that only come with a trial version program.It might depend where you are and how far from transmission towers etc, But I would recommend it.Since the above review I have used this tv stick with my old SichboPVR tv stick player/recorder program. Works like a dream including with HD channels. Best thing is that using the sichbo program it will wake the sichbo program from hibernate to do scheduled recordings whereas the hauppauge program will only allow schedules from sleep mode.

I've been using the WinTV-soloHD for a couple of weeks now and am very happy with its performance. I have it connected to a Win10 computer and outside aerial. The initial scan found over 120 channels, all the main ones and many I would never want to watch - but that's the nature of Freeview. I'm using it successfully with PLEX and, unlike another reviewer, it has scanned the HD as well as SD channels. The picture quality is good with a noticeable improvement when watching HD. If I was using the Hauppage + Plex setup as my only way to watch TV, I'd go for one of the more expensive models which allows watching one channel while recording one or more other channels, but I don't need this so this model works well for me.I've dropped one star because the included software, while quite capable, is not as good as commercially available programs.I haven't used the included small aerial as I can't imagine it would pick up and the remote control seems superfluous as I'll normally be sitting close enough to the computer to manually change settings.

I bought this specifically to watch live TV broadcasts without the latency of streaming, which for me on the BBC is about a minute and it didn't disappoint as long as I used a proper aerial. The supplied tiny aerial found about a dozen channels with OK but not great reception, but plugging it into the aerial feed in the wall found seemingly hundreds of channels and all the BBC HD ones. You have to download the Windows software to use on a PC which is clunky, but easy enough to use and there's a supplied license key to type in to register. All in all I'm very happy with the purchase even if I'll only use it a few times a year.

Bought this after receiving a cheaper device which only allowed USB 2 connections. This installed using USB 3 which was the only connection available on a new desktop PC.A USB extension cable is provided which proved useful.Installation of software on a Windows 11 PC was straight forward as was tuning of the device when connected to my roof antenna. Did need to tune twice as first attempt missed the UK HD channels. 101...105 and Sky News 233.All works very well and recommend.

Once you actually get this device installed which was a bit frustrating as several times it couldn't find my device and had restart the install twice once it did find the device everything went through very quickly even the station scanning, One thing to note and make use of if you have an indoor or loft ariel like I do is to turn on the passive amplifier this gets you a nice clear picture. The remote is not the best and is kind of fiddly to try and use although I am hoping that I can set this up to run on my harmony hub or through my Amazon echo that will make things much easier. What can I say you get what you pay for I bought a £20 USB TV stick and it really sucks the picture breaks up and any HD channels freeze after 15-20 mins this is a quality device worth spending the extra cash on.

I purchased the single-tuner Solo model. This is to replace an older PCIE TV card, which I don't have a usable slot for now I have upgraded my PC.Plugging this in with the included USB lead adapter to a USB 3.0 port worked, and my Windows 11 PC picked up the TV stick, but the drivers need to be downloaded with the WinTV10 software. All installed ok.I do find the WinTV interface rather clunky, even with the included cheap remote control pad. The software also doesn't seem to be able to cope well if you have some low signals; the picture breaks up far too easily.I therefore switched to NVPR software, and this works and produces a much more stable and reliable interface.I also find that the stick gets quite warm in use. I hope this doesn't cause any long-term issues. For the moment, all is OK.I give it a 3-star rating as it doesn't seem to match up to the quality of an internal PCIE TV card, but then I guess it has more versatility as you could use this with a laptop. You do, though, need a good external aerial to connect to. The provided small antenna, I think, is a bit of a token gesture, but it isn't going to give you any strong signal reception.

So far so good. It took a while to get it to work as the frequencies it searches from the transmitter list are wrong! But if you set to scan all channels (it takes a lot longer) then it'll find them.

works well if you want a TV tuner on your computer

Świetny tuner, odbiera programy HEVC H.265. Polecam ten tuner TV.

Le WinTV-soloHD fonctionne bien sous Linux (Raspberry Pi) en DVB-C après avoir suivi les instruction sur leur site. Mon but est d'explorer ce qui se trouve sur le câble. J'en suis entièrement satisfait.

Ledsen fel köpt tänkte att den är sat men fungera bra

Item is good quality, reasonably priced and arrived in good time (considering that it came from Germany).

marche tres bien