Turn your computer or laptop into a digital TV and radio receiver with this USB stick. Supports Time Shifting and HDTV enabling sharper picture and greater audio quality.
Watch digital TV or listen to digital radio on your PC or laptop anywhere, anytime.
Features: - Real-time digital video recording - Timeshifting - allowing you to watch and record programs at the same time, and playback any part of the program you have missed - USB2.0 high speed interface designed for HDTV, offering sufficient speed for HDTV broadcasts - Digital terrestrial TV and radio program player - Automatic channel search and favourite channel creation. - Scheduled recording - EPG (Electronic Program Guide) - Powered through the USB port so no additional power supply required.
Package Contents: - USB Stick - Antenna - Remote Control - Antenna Adapter - Software CD
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Review by
ANTHONY TYRER from
BOURNEMOUTH on
25/10/2008 23:18:51
Rating:
10 /10
sumvision T3420+Freeview+USB+TV+Stick
great item out of the box works great on vista ultimate records good cant say more
Review by
Alasdair Freer from
Carluke on
31/08/2008 16:57:40
Rating:
1 /10
Worse than my old one! Poor product even on main home aerial
Really disappointed.
i bought this as an upgrade to my 4 year old Freecom USB stick and expected better picture quality, burning options etc.
Unfortunately, EVEN WHEN CONNECTED TO MY HOME AERIAL i get very few channels, (yet my 50" LG plasma gets a perfect signal using the same aerial, as did my old Freecom USB stick).
I can't get ITV or chanels 4 or 5 even!!! All i get is BBC1 + 2 and a whole load of shopping chanels (mostly glitchy).
I plan to send it back and go back to using my old trusty USB tuner.
It's cheap for a reason. AVOID.
Review by
Phil Yearby from
Ryde on
28/08/2008 21:50:39
Rating:
10 /10
Excelent
Excellent piece of kit
Plugged it in, loaded the software
Stuck the stick arial on top of my PC & sat & watched TV.
Signal strength of 85/100 with the stick arial. Transmitter is line-of-sight, but still 10 miles away,.. so maybe some people would need a bigger arial.
Easy to use, picture quality good
Haven't tried recording yet
Review by
Russ Stott from
Oldham on
18/01/2008 19:47:47
Rating:
9 /10
Works for me
I like this but can understand the problems people have had with the aerial.
I have an unobstructed view of my local TV transmitter some half a mile away but if I move the aerial even slightly away from its optimal position the signal drops off totally.
So if like me you have almost perfect TV reception when using indoor aerials it is great otherwise know you will need an alternative aerial.
Review by
David Raine from
Colyton on
13/11/2007 18:34:35
Rating:
6 /10
Performance of he included ariel
An update on the performance if the small ariel. Fom a top floor flat in London that has clear line of site to a transmitter several miles away, I can get all channels. Sometimes there is stuttering on the reception. From another location I can receive zero channels. So the included ariel can be useful but I would say that it is likely that most people will find that the reception conditions are not good enough and will require a connection to an external ariel. If you won't have the capability of connecting to an external ariel then be aware of the limitations.
Review by
M from UK from
Wirral on
13/11/2007 13:42:07
Rating:
4 /10
Average at best
With the included aerial, it receives nothing. Which is pretty much what everyone else has said. So why include it ? If I plug in the house aerial, it receives most channels well (but not all of them, although that same aerial works 100% with a Samsung freeview receiver).
I'm not greedy. I'd have been happy with just a couple of channels on the included aerial. Even E! would have done, to break the boredom. But none, well that's a bit rubbish isn't it.
The fact that it works with a big house aerial kind of defeats the object of buying a receiver for the laptop. If I wanted to lug around Jodrell Bank on my shoulder I would have gone the whole hog and bought a freeview TV to boot.
If anyone can use this on the supplied aerial, I'm assuming the view from their window is obscured by the huge TV transmitter mast they can undoubtably see, whilst they receive Radio One on their fillings.....
I'm unimpressed. Just pleased I didn't pay any more for it.
Review by
David Keane from
Wales on
11/10/2007 01:09:41
Rating:
4 /10
Better Than The Last One
Bought a cheap Freeview receiver a year ago (from SVP, of course) and I've played with it several times - but, the picture keeps freezing every few seconds, so have never really taken it seriously.
Heard these new Freeview receivers are better than the last generation, so decided to give this one a go.
On some stations, the picture's pretty good, but on other channels it still skips 50-75 frames every 5 seconds. This is running off a roof-top aerial - the supplied aerial doesn't pick up a single channel.
I would say this unit is better picture-wise, however it introduces a new problem. I recorded 1-2 minute samples off several channels - and all of them have the audio out-of-sync with the video (by about 1.5 seconds).
On the plus side, it records to a native MPEG-2 format and the software interface is fairly intuitive.
However, it does want to 'call home' every time it runs and when I told the firewall to block it, it increases its memory-space until it reaches 1GB and crashes.
If you want to watch live Freeview, then you could do worse. If you want to record anything then forget it - the audio-video synch issue is just too distracting.
Review by
jonathan mobbs from
torpoint on
06/10/2007 18:36:41
Rating:
7 /10
this item
first off i was well chuffed with this item i would buy another one this is the point i had it for 3 weeks and it just stopped working it smells like it overheated so best to unplug it when finished using ii
Review by
new guy from
midlands on
08/08/2007 23:44:48
Rating:
1 /10
mine dont work
first of all it don't work i tried every thing , and i must say im pretty good at this sort of thing.
ill have to check tommorrow with them ,but i think i got the wrong thing deleverd cause my model manufacture code on the packaging says
SV DVB-T3240 usb stick (instead of T680)
i cant see the word sumvision anywhere so i guess SV stands for it. (i hope it is them who make this item and not any body else)i even looked for the word sumvision in all the folder properties on the disc and the programe files but did not find it.
remote looks nothing like the one in the pic, neither does the usb stick
but the product code on the check sheet matches that on the web page displayed.
i did look for system requirements on the packaging and on the web page but i didn't manage to find it anywhere.
can any body help with any info.
sorry for the negative review, i was really looking forward to this item.
Review by
jim from
Melling on
25/07/2007 18:02:41
Rating:
10 /10
Why pay more??
Ok I've just bought one of these, and am well impressed.
The other reviews are correct, it does everything it says on the can for very little outlay. If it has a downside, I haven't found it yet.
The software supplied with it retails at around £50(!) but of course you have to figure it's use out yourself, there's no proper instructions, just an install booklet (It aint rocket science though). I bought this stick for the laptop and took out my old DVB card, made by the German sounding unpronouncable firm starting with a 'H' from the desktop (you know who I mean). This software beats theirs hands down.
As far as the aerial goes, mine works fine with a proper aerial. Anyone who actually expects a 6" bit of wire to do the job must also wonder why anyone bothers putting up aerials outside at all ;-) The guy whos does work must be in one hell of a good signal area.
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