Pinnacle USB PCTV - Free live HDTV on your PC

June 16th, 2009 | by admin |


Visit pcwizkid.blogspot.com for more tips HD Free-to-Air TV viewing has become popular in the past year, specially now that cable companies are switching to fully Digital and HDTV is becoming more of a standard. However if you arent a HDTV subscriber and would like a free flexible alternative to watching HDTV on your PC, Pinnacle has created a sleek device, the PCTV HD Pro Stick. This is my review of model 801e.

  1. 24 Responses to “Pinnacle USB PCTV - Free live HDTV on your PC”

  2. By PCWizKid on Jun 18, 2009 | Reply

    @patmyking , its $100 or less depending where you buy it from.

  3. By patmyking on Jun 21, 2009 | Reply

    how mush do i have to pay for this tv tuner

  4. By ICEKamiKaze on Jun 23, 2009 | Reply

    what’s the recording format ? (Video / Audio)

    i have an internal WinFast TV 2000 XP RM and can record any video / Audio codec you want like you sellect them from the installed list (DivX,H.264 etc) acn this box do too?

  5. By PCWizKid on Jun 24, 2009 | Reply

    Check my article/blog for the latest pricing.

  6. By buttmaster828 on Jun 27, 2009 | Reply

    how much is this?

  7. By racerdsm14391 on Jun 28, 2009 | Reply

    now my cable is connected to the VCR and thats how i get my cable…and i connected the av cables. can i connected the av cables can i connect the av cable after i connected to the antina

  8. By PCWizKid on Jun 29, 2009 | Reply

    I have not tried , but if you can connect it , perhaps.

  9. By RICEFREAK on Jul 2, 2009 | Reply

    One question. Can this record your ps3 gameplays also?

  10. By ecko9v90 on Jul 4, 2009 | Reply

    Can this decode satilite signal?

  11. By slimershomie on Jul 6, 2009 | Reply

    can you get online channels and can i hook it to my existing cable

  12. By ecfeitosa on Jul 8, 2009 | Reply

    Can you record from HD to DVD?
    How Anout WinTV from Haupagge?
    Can you do that too?
    Thank You

  13. By TheFireFucks on Jul 11, 2009 | Reply

    can you record more then one show at a time

  14. By ch40t1cM0DdEr on Jul 14, 2009 | Reply

    I got one of these for 40$ (refurbished) they are just awesome i highly recommend to anyone who like TV (EVERYONE)

  15. By SamuelS1289 on Jul 17, 2009 | Reply

    They did not say anything about CC

  16. By PCWizKid on Jul 20, 2009 | Reply

    Hi I did not see any option for CC, but it could be there, need to check in detail, you can also check their website.

  17. By SamuelS1289 on Jul 21, 2009 | Reply

    Please respond:

    Does it include Closed Captioning?

  18. By ecfeitosa on Jul 24, 2009 | Reply

    can You record to your Hard Drive and them to a DVD? Cause in Brazil we have de ISDB-Tb system, and only one company (Multilasser)makes the record to-HD-to-DVD, the others AOC Toshiba and Tectoy, u can’t. Their system is Mpeg4, Japan Mpeg2- ISDB-t.

  19. By PCWizKid on Jul 26, 2009 | Reply

    Hi, yes it does!

  20. By pichurrin on Jul 28, 2009 | Reply

    it works with WMC (Windows Media Center)?

  21. By SNIPEMANZ on Jul 29, 2009 | Reply

    I said from my GAMES CONSOLE not my pc or laptop.

  22. By SNIPEMANZ on Aug 3, 2009 | Reply

    Can this record live gameplay from your games console in hd quality?

  23. By GreenTwister23 on Aug 5, 2009 | Reply

    one question does it fit to normal computers to i mean work :)

    and yeah can i like plug it in to a tv and like record movies from my xbox with it ?

    please reply :P

  24. By PCWizKid on Aug 8, 2009 | Reply

    Hi each city is different , check out my full article on my blog that has a online too that tells you all the HD channels you can get free to air without subscribing to cable for it.

  25. By insanityknight1 on Aug 10, 2009 | Reply

    in the city how much channels would i get (NYC) and in the discription what do u mean by if u arent a hdtv suscriber

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