Freeview USB dongles

Tonk3h · 6 Jul 2007 at 00:44

Did a quick search to see if someone had already asked a similar thing, but to no avail, so i will ask myself

the USB freeview TV reciever thingies... im gonna buy one soon for at uni, cus CBA paying for TV license, so basically... Will they work on standard XP? all ive seen about so far on websites is compatibility with XP media centre, and Vista... nothing about standard XP pro..

has anyone else used these before? are they good?

MADEinSTOKE · 6 Jul 2007 at 00:53

hi there i have used 1 on xp b4 and it was mint as long as you get a good reception to the ariel

Craig321 · 6 Jul 2007 at 00:54

Tonk3h said:
Did a quick search to see if someone had already asked a similar thing, but to no avail, so i will ask myself

the USB freeview TV reciever thingies... im gonna buy one soon for at uni, cus CBA paying for TV license, so basically... Will they work on standard XP? all ive seen about so far on websites is compatibility with XP media centre, and Vista... nothing about standard XP pro..

has anyone else used these before? are they good?

Yes, most of them would work in XP Pro.

You might be best off with a freeview PCI card rather than a dongle, it'd be faster and better signal.

cells · 6 Jul 2007 at 04:50

you really need a external ariel or you sont pick any/much up

Tonk3h · 6 Jul 2007 at 21:54

hmm okay thanks =D

lsg1r · 6 Jul 2007 at 22:00

Tonk3h said:
cus CBA paying for TV license,

You still need a license, its covered in the t&c's of the license, although I know a couple of people who got away with it

paradigm · 6 Jul 2007 at 22:27

lsg1r said:
You still need a license, its covered in the t&c's of the license, although I know a couple of people who got away with it

No, actually you don't. Well not if its going on a laptop, a truely portable TV with its own power (ie laptop battery) doesn't need a license.

mrk · 6 Jul 2007 at 23:56

Craig321 said:
You might be best off with a freeview PCI card rather than a dongle, it'd be faster and better signal.

Na mate

The signal quality is exactly the same and the speed is exactly the same.

When I upgraded my mobo I had to sell my Leadtek Winfast PCI DTV1000T and get the USB2 version of the same card - I was pleasantly surprised, same software, same speed and same quality.

Now on Vista though so don't use the software, Media Centre does it all

Tonk3h · 7 Jul 2007 at 00:23

ok cheers guys

and i think ill get a usb one, so its easier to remove when one of the TV license dudes comes round