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Article: Hot New Products - Pinnacle PCTV200e. Turn your PC into a portable television set.(Product/Service Evaluation)
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- Computer Act!ve
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- July 21, 2005
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Byline: Jonathan Parkyn.
For fans of the goggle box, Pinnacle's PCTV200e is a rather nifty piece of kit. It describes itself as 'anywhere TV', and is primarily aimed at notebook computer users who want to watch their favourite programmes on the move. Indeed, it's one of the smallest external TV tuners we've ever seen, dwarfed by its own remote control handset. What makes it so different to other TV tuners is that the unit is provided with its own antenna.
The idea is that you can watch digital terrestrial TV (DVB-T) anywhere, as long as you have a notebook PC and the PCTV200e; unlike the ADS Tech TV Station (page 25), which you can just plug into a TV ...