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A680B is the latest generation hybrid USB HDTV tuner for your laptop and PC. It integrates multiple tuners supporting following: Digital Cable (Clear QAM), and ATSC free-over-air HDTV. You can enjoy the crystal clear HDTV with resolution up to 1920 × 1080i. With its bundled player software Total Media from Arcsoft, your viewing experience is like a breeze. The player software also offers personal video recorder, picture viewer, music and DVD player capabilities. A fully functioning remote control is also supported

Features
* Digital Cable (Clear QAM Tuner)

* ATSC HDTV Tuner over antenna

* Advanced TV Application — TotalMedia licensed from ArcSoft

* Rewind and Fast Forward live TV shows with Always Time Shifting recording

* Electronic Program Guide (EPG)

* Automatic Station Searching

* Digital Personal Video Recording

* Schedule TV recording for later viewing or burn to DVD

Specifications:
* Input : 75 Ohm PAL-NTSC Connector

* Clear QAM Tuner

* Fully ATSC 8VSB Compliant

* Input Signal Level (Channel power) : 0 to -75dBm 0 to -75dBm

* Tuner Input Frequency Range: 48.25-863.25 Mhz

* External Connectors: PAL-NTSC F Type Female

* IF Frequency: 44MHz

System Requirements
* Geniatech A680B

* Infrared Remote Control

* Mini RF to F connector converter

* Mini Antenna

* Multifunction Cable

* Software CD (Driver and Total Media 3.5)

System Requirements
* Microsoft Windows XP/Vista

* P4 2.4 GHz and above, or AMD equivalent

* 512MB RAM or above

* Video card 128MB for HDTV and 64MB for SDTV

* USB 2.0 Compatible

* Microsoft Direct X9.0 or above

* Microsoft media Player 9.0 or above

* UHF/VHF Antenna for ATSC Terrestrial TV (A small bonus indoor antenna is included for strong signals) or
Cable TV for Clear QAM HDTV broadcasting
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#Interesting comment about this product.
I am using this on Windows 7 Ultimate 64bit.

You may hit one website where this is documented and where you can download the latest drivers, meritline…Here are some helpful hints and what I was able to get to work and what you may not want to try because it doesn’t work. The only reason I am giving this one less star is because I had to compile information from everywhere and the remote is useless i.e. they should just send this product without remote, it doesn’t work, DOA, bad design, well known problem. Of course don’t expect tech support, well written manuals. If I am rating this as a novice user, I would give it 3 stars.

Connected the tuner to my usb port, driver failed to install. As suggested, do not use the enclosed DVD for anything except the Remote IR driver. If you can’t find it, wait till you install the new Win7 driver from meritline. Do not use the driver from the DVD else it will default to antenna, no cable, and therefore no QAM.

Note, if you mess up, you will have to go into settings (tasks) in media center to further configure TV. Regardless, Media center will complain that signal or something could not determine (don’t remember the exact message). Ignore it and choose configure manually; cable or antenna manually (in my case, comcast so I chose Cable). Wait a long time, could be 2-20 minutes while it scans the channels. If you find no channels, you may have a driver issue or bad cable.

You can install the drivers manually or extract the zipped file from meritline and run setup (32 or 64 bit depending on your os). In my case, the driver release date is 11/17/2009, version 11.20220.176.201. In device manager you should see HDTV Stick Digital Capture under Sould controllers. If any of this doesn’t match your conviguration, deinstall all drivers associated with this and start over (maybe use the system restore so create a restore point as an option before you continue for the first time).

Just use the right driver and the rest is a breeze; expect 10-20 min the first time you scan. I am in Chicago and getting about 50 channels. Unfortunately, Comcast here just went encrypted so for all practical purposes, I am only getting OTA channels but they come in Dolby and clear with no stutter. As I said before the IR and remote are useless so time to get another remote or use the wireless mouse. I needed cheap to test, my next one will be a cablecard setup so to me this was money well spent.

I also tried to use the NTSC driver to see if I could setup ch. 3 or 4 and use the comcast box (which works on my ntsc tv and I get all channels because it’s a digital set top box). For some reason, I couldn’t get it to work. I have always wondered so now I know it’s a no go unless I write the driver myself, ain’t happening.

I also played with the ATSC driver for OTA digital channels. The included antenna is a joke. I tried the outdoor antenna and the picture was decent and I could get all local ota channels.

Summary, only good for the tuner, the rest is frivolous. For , why not. I’ll wait for Ceton to come down a bit.

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*** Product Information and Prices Stored: Jun 15, 2010 13:50:36

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