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Pinnacle PCTV To Go HD Wireless

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Watch HDTV wirelessly from your home network wherever you go. If you already own PCTV To Go version 1.0, you can download the free HD update here. In addition to full HD compatibility, PCTV To Go offers these incredible features for your new TV experience: PCTV To Go wirelessly communicates to your existing network or directly to your wireless PC Pause and rewind live TV or record your favorite TV shows with the included PCTV To Go Player PCTV To Go seamlessly works as a TV source within a wirelessly connected Microsoft Media Centere Edition equipped PC (also compatible with Windows VISTA Home Premium)

List Price:	$307.49
Our Price:	$110.00
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Product Details

Product Weight:	3.1 pounds
Package Length:	15.6 inches
Package Width:	7.5 inches
Package Height:	4.4 inches
Package Weight:	3.15 pounds
Average Customer Rating:	based on 7 reviews

Features

Watch TV anywhere, now with HD support
Remotely change channels, video sources, and even control your home digital video recorder
No set-up or monthly service fees
User-friendly PCTV To Go Player
Record your favorite shows

Customer Reviews

Average Customer Review: 3.5

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Pinnacle PCTV To Go HD Wireless Aug 24, 2008
Generally, this is a good product. Overall, I'm pleased with it.

Setup isn't that easy nor that difficult. Local multicast video quality is good (appears as DVD quality to me) while remote unicast viewing video quality is acceptable.

My only grouse - The wireless feature can't be switched off (even though I just want to operate on wired connection because of concern with radiation).

Decent product if price is lower Apr 08, 2008
This is a good product if you can get it for less than [...].

The good:

Network connection and setup is easy. I used the latest setup software and updated the firmware before starting. The latest sw does support WPA but I have not tried it yet. I setup the unit using direct network connection then after I've confirmed that everything work, I used the "advanced" mode to configure the wireless portion then disconnected the network cable.

The time shifting feature is great for watching sport since you can do your own "instant replay" by just sliding the pointer back a few click.

The bad:

Picture quality is a little better than YouTube. It ok for general viewing but not for recording. I don't expect much from this kind of device anyway so it's ok for me.

Overall, I'm happy with this unit. I bought it at [...] and I think this is the right price for the given performance and features.

BTW [...] means that text has been edited out by Amazon.

Good Product Mar 26, 2008
Intalled fine. Using with a Linksys wireless router. Installed in 15 minutes. Most the time took downloading a more recent PCTV to go application then the one they sent with the product on CD.

I am sharing the cable signal with my neighbor and we use a dlink range extender to boost the signal between houses. The distance between the linksys and the dlink extender is about 350 ft and everything is working GREAT.

I am getting a 555 MBS connection. Quality of video is great at 1X and ok at 2x. I actually use 2 video to hook it up to my 50 inch TV and it looks OK - not DVD/HD quality but pretty good.

When streaming over web I get 400 kbs and the video is fair at 1x.

Receommend this product.

Some ups and downs Mar 24, 2008
If you have Vista Home, forget it don't buy this product. It's impossible to set up this product with Vista Home. My HP laptop has Vista and with the software update for the PCTV, HAVA, I get the "NO HAVA Device Detected". Even hard wired into the router the device can't be located. I rolled back to the previous software version, and Vista locate the device, but when you make a network connection with the PCTV, the Setup wizard says "Connection with PCTV lost" even though you have an active connection with the device. Support is awful. There is no phone support, and I still haven't got a response from support to the email I sent them a week ago.

The setup was easy with XP on my wife's laptop. The player displays a good quality picture. The only thing is that full screen display had buffering problems.

If the company had better support for this product, I would have no problem recommending to anyone. If you only have a Vista machine, wait to get this.

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Great alternative to SlingBox if your router isn't near your cablebox Jul 14, 2007
I reviewed three different products before buying Pinnacle PCTV:

1. Slingbox
2. Sony Location Free
3. Pinnacle PCTV

My requirements were:
1. wireless connectivity (Slingbox can't)
2. ease of installation (Sony is difficult)
3. accept HDTV (Sony can't)

PCTV fulfilled my needs and it works great with DVD like quality. We don't have a TV or a cablebox in our living room but now my wife uses her laptop to watch cable TV while nursing....