I want know if is possible to use PCTV HD mini stick in my country (CAPE VERDE).

If is possible i want know what solve this problem?

THANKS.

I have my media pc hooked up to my main TV in our living room, so watching HDTV on the computer isn’t that important. I already have a HDTV with a tuner, plus an additional Samsung Set Top Box feeding an analog signal to a panasonic analog hard drive/DVD recorder that still works great. The process to record digital TV on the old panny isn’t very versatile given a programming guide on the Sammy that is really unreliable. So having a 2 week window to record shows using WMC and the Pinnacle tuner is something I really need.

Thank you
my email: vanderg12@hotmail.com

(1) my old Dell Dimension 2400 desktop, 2.8Ghz with 1Gb RAM, integrated Intel 3D Extreme Graphics (G345?) and WinXP Home,

(2) My son’s Dell Inspiron something-or-other laptop 3.2Ghz with 2Gb RAM, an ATI card (hi-res wide-screen – s.w.e.e.t!) and WinXP Pro,

(3) My daughter’s 64-bit Gateway M-7315U Notebook PC – Intel Pentium Dual Core T3200 2GHz, 4GB DDR2, 15.4 WXGA, Vista Home Premium 64 (this machine r.o.c.k.s!),

(4) An IBM ThinkCenter(?) workstation with Intel Core 2 CPU 6300 @ 1.86+1.86, 2Gb RAM and WinXP Pro,

(5) My old Compaq Presario 2100 with 2Ghz CPU, 784Mb RAM, a crappy maximum display resolution, and WinXP Home, and the final kicker:

(6) My old Dell Inspiron 8000 lappy, rockin’ 384 big ‘ol Mb RAM, a 450MHz CPU, an ATI GPU (which apparently offloads most/all graphics processing from the CPU, thank God!), with a small screen but excellent resolution.

“So What?” you say?

This Ultimate Stick has run with almost no glitches at all on all of these machines. I say ‘almost’ because I’ve caught some pixellation on fast-moving action if the picture is at or near full-screen on the lesser machines.

I had never f’d around with any pc tv tuner cards at all before this one. I didn’t get a user’s manual, quick-start guide, installation CD, or any significant guidance, except Pinnacle helping me activate the new flash code. Their on-line help was pretty good, too, albeit a bit slow and repetitive. But on-line help leaves an important artifact: a written transcript of the whole interaction, which lets you go back to the same tech time after time, if need be.

I’m no f’ing genius, and this is *not* rocket surgery. Mostly, I’ve just felt my way along, doing what seemed logical to make things work. Sometimes, what looked like a crash was simply the code trying to flush on-board memory (in the case of the Ultimate Stick) while it’s still being bombarded with data, exacerbated by the user (me) piling up new requests out of impatience. If you wait a few moments, I’ve found that the software almost never crashes, but can appear to lock up for a short time under these circumstances.

Pinnacle and their new masters, Hauppauge Digital, make solid PC TV-type products for a broad range of users. Getting them to work properly may take some fiddling, but once you get understand their capabilities and limitations, they’re pretty freakin’ awesome.

this model doesn’t work with analog signal.
Search for this one, “Pinnacle PCTV Hybrid Pro Stick”.
I’m sorry to say, but I didn’t see hardware with so much software bugs than this one.
Until I find some software that can function properly, I am using old PCMCI DVBT card.