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August PC/Laptop USB Freeview/HDTV Receiver - Silver - Vista Compatible

August PC/Laptop USB Freeview/HDTV Receiver - Silver - Vista Compatible


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Brand: August
Category: CE

Buy New: £17.30



New (11) Used (1) from £13.49

Rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars 45 reviews
Sales Rank: 682

Media: Electronics
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 3.9 x 2 x 3.9
Use your computer as a Hard Disk TV/DVD recorder
Support playback of DVD disks
Listen to over 20 digital radio stations
System Requirements:
USB 2.0 Port / Windows XP or 2000 or Vista / CPU 800 MHz or higher / Memory 256 MB or more / VGA 8 MB RAM
Warranty: One Year Warranty

MPN: DVB-T201-S
Model: DVB-T201-S
EAN: 6923797117413
ASIN: B000IM5VOA

Release Date: July 15, 2008
Availability: Usually dispatched within 24 hours

Customer Reviews:
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4 out of 5 stars easy!   August 27, 2008
john the red
3 out of 3 found this review helpful

Product was easy to set up, and works well with my house arial connected, not so great with the supplied arial, so you may want to get an arial splitter and extra cable so you can connect this unit to your house arial. br / br /Comes supplied with Blaze HDTV application which sets itself up and works very well. This can record for you but only if the application has been left in the background and you are watching the channel you are recording on; it only handles one stream. br / br /It has found 66 terrestrial DVB and DAB channels, not all of them free but great viewing. br / br /You may also want to get a USB extension cable so that you can lay the unit flat on a table to stop it getting pulled off the USB socket. br / br /Overall great value for money.


4 out of 5 stars Awesome bit of kit   August 27, 2008
ninab (uk)
4 out of 4 found this review helpful

I bought this as I wanted to watch the Olympics whilst away camping in my camper. We toured many places and only 1 place didnt have a reception. br /Pulled into Bude found 48 channels including BBC1 and its interactive channels for the Olympics. Found a random farmers field on top of a hill near Boscastle, still had signal. Polzeath didn't get anything :( br /Crantock was fine as well. Then went in land to Stythian near Falmouth and found 107 channels!! Unfortunatly at home in Farnborough nothing :( going to have to find the tv cable in the loft from the aerial. br /I would of given 5 stars as really it is an awesome little bit of kit, very easy to install (after I had to email August to get another serial number as it didnt like the one that came on the cd) and very easy to use. But you dont get signal everywhere and unless you attach the aerial to something metal (ie: campervan Roof). Obviously the digital reception is up to the people that control it and as soon as digital is everywhere there is not alot you can do. br /


5 out of 5 stars magic freeview device   August 19, 2008
T Goodman (Enfield, London)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful

I got this as a birthday present from my parent. It is really a little magic device. I can now watch full suite of Freeview TV channels in perfect quality on my new laptop. It can be scheduled to record your favourite program at a particular time in case you are not in. Additionally, it also supports DVD playback. The small portable antenna provided doesn't work very well, but no problem with my roof aerial. Overall, I am very pleased and look forward to spending a lot of time with it.