Stay tuned boys and girls for a review of my two new DViCO Fusion HDTV5 USB HDTV tuners that arrived last night.  I don’t have much time today to mess with these and the machines that they will be installed on, but I did have time to get one setup on my main Media Center Edition box. All I can say is, THANK GOD, someone has put some time and effort into software and drivers. Per the full-color glossy manual that comes with the HDTV5 USB tuners, I went to the DViCO website to download the latest software pack for the USB Gold tuners.  I installed the software first, was prompted to reboot and plugged in the tuner when windows came back up. The computer recognized the new software and two times I told Windows where to find the drivers, per the manual.  Done. I fired up the software and it autoscanned 44 channels (~32 DTV/HDTV channels here in San Francisco).  When it was done with the auto-scan it tuned in channel 2 in HD. I can honestly say, none of the ATI based NTSC or HD tuners I have went that smoothly when I installed them.  I have not fired up MCE yet as I want to get the antenna situation addressed BEFORE I let MCE know I have the HD tuners installed. I will use the DViCO software to do that as it is quite nice.  BTW, the OG “stick” antenna that comes with it outperforms the ATI/Philips HDTV antenna that came with my ATI HDTV Wonder and these tuners (Snapstream.com included them as a “freebie”)…funny.

[tags]HDTV, DViCO, ATI, MCE, Media Center, Tuner[/tags]

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