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AutumnWave OnAir GT (USB HDTV Tuner) Review

Others/Miscelleneous by SidneyWong @ 2008-03-17

HDTV broadcast becomes more accessible in many cities AutumnWave is bringing to the notebook/laptop users an easy way to capture the high quality must watch sports or your favorite TV programs on-the-go

Setup & Channel Management

Setup:

From Channel Manager I could now scan digital TV from cable or air channels as well as analog signal.

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A word of caution here: At my home I use AT&T with which I had no problem with. When I went by my friend's house, who has ComCast I could not receive any channels while all his TV sets are fine. This happened on SuperBowl evening :-( I was fooled by it for a few days. I finally swallowed my pride and asked Ryan Pertusio at Autumnwave for help. Accordingly, some cable providers in the U.S. (approximately 5 %) use something called frequency offset, it was ComCast in my case. This will not allow proper channel capture.

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To resolve the problem, go to "Option" and head for "Driver". You will find the screen shot above. Check "HRC", and do a recan of the channels.

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A snap shot of captured available channels.

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Available recording feature.

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Available Video source.

There is an additional editing feature; HD editing is included in the software package. However, I was unable to get this to work as my system would lock-up for reason explained below.

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Comment from geoffrey @ 2008/03/17

I can't see a difference between both media, video is way to low in resolution + video compression. Got any full resolution screen captures?

Comment from Sidney @ 2008/03/17

Double click and go to dailymotion with larger screen. Unless [M] server can hold the meg2 size, you will never going to have the resolution as like the real thing.

Anyone who watches HDTV will tell you the huge difference.

Comment from jmke @ 2008/03/17

normal TV is 480i at best, HD starts at 720p, huge difference

Comment from Sidney @ 2008/03/17

If I live within the city limit of Chicago or Cincinnati where on air HDTV is available, I would ditch my cable TV provider and go for free on air reception. In fact, I wouldn't even get a TV set but to use the PC & large screen LCD monitor instead.

Comment from geoffrey @ 2008/03/17

I know the difference is huge, that's not what I'm on to, I just think that high-res pictures would do better for comparison then low-res movies (even if you double click them for supersize

Comment from Sidney @ 2008/03/17

Quote:

Originally Posted by geoffrey

I know the difference is huge, that's not what I'm on to, I just think that high-res pictures would do better for comparison then low-res movies (even if you double click them for supersize

Still at the mercy of the video cam resolutions; unless I use >720i video camera. Using a digital camera to take still picture from a vidio clip won't do it neither.

Comment from geoffrey @ 2008/03/17

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Originally Posted by Sidney

Still at the mercy of the video cam resolutions; unless I use >720i video camera. Using a digital camera to take still picture from a vidio clip won't do it neither.

Screencapture, no external device. I once used Hypercam to record video's, but it's a real resource hog, your HDTV playback may start to struggle. You can record using the aditional OnAIR software?

Comment from jmke @ 2008/03/17

recording is not the issue, finding suitable hosting for big HDTV movie is

Comment from geoffrey @ 2008/03/17

Where did I mention "movie"?

Comment from jmke @ 2008/03/18

Quote:

Originally Posted by geoffrey

Screencapture, no external device. I once used Hypercam to record video's, but it's a real resource hog, your HDTV playback may start to struggle. You can record using the aditional OnAIR software?

Comment from geoffrey @ 2008/03/18

Post 2:

Quote:

Originally Posted by geoffrey

I can't see a difference between both media, video is way to low in resolution + video compression. Got any full resolution screen captures?

I though I was being pretty clear there, I ment a screenshot "screen capture", not the movie "screen capture". K, eveybody following me now

I thought you needed software in order to take screenshots of movie's, that's why I mentioned Hypercam

Comment from jmke @ 2008/03/18

fraps should be able to do so too, smaller install

Comment from geoffrey @ 2008/03/18

Fraps needs a 3D appliciation in order to run properly, Hypercam doesn't.

Comment from jmke @ 2008/03/18

no it doesn't

FRAPS can screenshot from any Direct Show application, this included Windows MEdia PLayer, ClassiC Player, PowerDVD, etc; Just start fraps, hit the screenshot hotkey and you'll get nice screencaps in your \fraps folder

just tried it, works perfect with the apps mentioned above

Comment from geoffrey @ 2008/03/18

WMV9 to then I suppose, I swear it didn't work playing mp3 files in WMV9, I'll have a look at it tomorrow again, really no time today

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