Gadmei External DVB-T Digital Freeview LCD CRT TV Tuner Box TV6818E for PS2, PS3, WII, DVD player etc
Product Description
A simple touch can turn your monitor to a color TV. It enables you to watch both DVB-T Digital FreeView TV and analogue TV on your CRT or LCD monitor with or without PC. It is easy to connect PS2, XBOX, Wii, GAME CUB, DVD player, camcorder or other AV equipment to your LCD/TFT, CRT Monitor and Projector. With the MMI component video input, it supports 480i/480p/576i/576p/720p/1080i. It is fullly widescreen compatible with resolution support up to 1920 X 1200. Both 4:3 or 16:9 modes are supported. It Support AV/S-Video/YPbPr input via MMI cable. For digital TV, It Supports EPG/Subtitile /Teletext /Parental Lock/Channel Edit function and Stereo/Radio programs. PIP (Picture in Picture) function at PC mode allows you to adjust the size and position of the window. It has built-in speaker with full function remote control and OSB. UK 3 pin power adapter is included in the box. Plug and play, no software needed.
Package contents
1 X TV6818E CATV/DVB-T Hybrid LCD TV Box
1 X Remote Controller
1 X UK 3 pin AC Power Adapter
1 X VGA Cable with PC pass thru connector
1 X Stereo Audio Cable
1 X MMI cable with AV Function
1 X DVB-T MINI antenna cable
1 X Pedestal
1 X User Manual
- Standalone! Can be used with or without your PC. Only requires your LCD or CRT monitor; Dual TV system: Analog (PAL, NTSC & SECAM)+ Digital (DVB-T) ;Compatible with CRT and LCD monitor with resolution of 1920 X 1200 and wide-screen LCD monitor.; Watch TV programs on LCD/CRT/PLASMA monitor (VGA port); plug and play, no software needed
- High resolution rate reach up to 1280×1024(5:4) / 1680×1050(16:10) or 1920×1200(16:10) 60Hz or 75Hz.; Adjustable resolution: 800 X 600/1024 X 768/1280 X 1024/1440 X 900/1680 X 1050/1920 X 1200; Refresh rate changeover between 60Hz and 75Hz; Digital FM radio reception
- Support EPG/Subtitle/Teletext/Parental Lock/Channel Edit function and Stero/Radio programms (Digital TV); USB media playing function is available (Digital TV); Support Video/S-Video/YPbPr input via MMI cable (YPbPr input support: 408i/480p/576p/720p/1080i signal); STB sharing when connected to TV via MMI cable.
- 3D motion noise reduction; PIP function (Picture-in-picture); 4/9/16 channel preview. work synchronizes with entertainment; Memorize up to 250 channels (analog TV); AV/S-video/ YPbPr signal input; support AV (Analog + Digital) output; Multi-media cable provides the facility to hook up other AV kit for display on your PC monitor such as PS2, XBOX,Wii, GAME CUB, DVD player, camcorder etc.
- Full function remote control and OSD; Card-reading function when input digital TV signal; support media playback such as MP3, JPEG & MPEG4;Recording by USB device when input digital TV signal; PAL-I: For UK Customer
So here’s what I got …
- Really fast delivery from TechNet, great!
- Decent build quality for the money.
- A way of turning a spare computer monitor to a LCD TV, which is nice.
- An analogue tuner that works.
- Instructions and box details which are hilarious, being translated from the Chinese. However they were enough to get the thing working.
Here’s what you don’t get …
- An MMI YPbPr cable as per the description on Amazon. What you DO get is an AV connection (i.e. yellow for video, red and white for audio). Shame, because they should really supply both in my opinion. The quality is better through YPbPr, if you have a source that gives you that option. Looking on Amazon USA, it seems that a similar box there does come with both. I bought one on Amazon Marketplace and that costs about £7 inc postage (“ClimaxDigital MMI Component (YPbPr) Input Cable”)
- Picture quality you’d expect from a real TV – it’s simply not as good, but it’s okay. As a spare TV it’s not too bad. There’s a fair amount of colour ‘bleeding’.
- Acceptable sound from the built in speaker. It’s far too tinny by any standards. Good news is that you can use the line out to run the sound through something else and it sounds great.
- Teletext. Unless I’m missing something …
Like many others, I didn’t buy this to use the TV tuner as such – in fact I have a poor Analogue reception, so I can’t judge how good it is in truth … it seems a bit worse than my ordinary TV, but I’m comparing a bad signal with a bad signal.
What I did buy it for is to use it with video games and a freeview box. With both of those it seems reasonable enough … as long as you don’t expect the same picture quality you’d get from a proper TV. With the YPbPr inputs via the cable you have to buy separately, it comes quite close.
So, don’t expect too much from this and you’ll get a decent bit of kit. Watching a DVD through the YPbPr or running a Wii through it, (again with a yet further cable needed) was pretty good. Whether it’d be great for watching analogue TV, I can’t really say.
Rating: 4 / 5
Apart from the TV tuner (which is brilliant in its own right). If you want a device that converts S-Video or Composite video to VGA this is it!
No need for costly convertors as this little piece of kit will do it all for you.
Highly recomended. There is a also a freeview version available which you will need soon when the terestrial channels are turned off in favour of digital
A+++ device
Diana
Rating: 5 / 5
The device was simple to setup with the given instructions. I am using this for a 42″ Philips plasma screen. The picture quality when using the intergrated DVB tuner is good, however, using the input for phono jacks does not produce as good picture although is still acceptable. The remote control has a slower response time than the average but was ok in setting up system, however, it would annoy most when using it ona frequent basis. I decided to use my other freeview box so that I would not have to use this remote to avoid this! For the price, I feel this is worth it!
Rating: 4 / 5
This product was so much smaller than I expected and in fact I think it looks quite good. It works well, ps2 to my screen works fine at uni, although when the picture is still for some time colours can bleed, eg the loading screen on gran turismo 4, however when racing it looks fine, its not a tv but there is certianly no problems at all, teken tag and mashed also look good.
Rating: 4 / 5
This is a really good buy seeing as I’ve had loads of old monitors lying around, and all for only £29.00. The quality isn’t fantastic, but its definitely watchable [Although this may just be down to need of my fine tuning in the menu though!]. I can now watch freeview from my external box, through the Gadmei box and into the spare monitor on my bedside!
Delivery was really quick too, seeing as Amazon estimated the delivery time to be a fair few days after I actually got it [Ordered Tuesday, got it on Friday.]
Rating: 5 / 5