Apr 29

Do not buy one of these

Posted by James Netherton | Sunday 29 April 2007 10:55 PM | In Blogging

Pinnaclesys Dazzle TV

Yes for some stupid reason I picked up one of these whilst out shopping with my girlfriend a few weeks ago. Seeing as all the PCI slots on my PC are broken, I decided to purchase it as it was for USB and on offer for £25.

It's now sitting mangled up in my bin after driving me insane:

- The configuration software is so good that it forgets all of your preferences when you exit the application.

- You cannot edit channel settings correctly in order to fine tune channels. There are fields marked as optional yet they are greyed out and impossible to activate - even though the information should be critical in configuring channels.

- The TV viewing application crashes randomly. Its good fun waiting and wondering just when I'll get the Windows error popup.

- Teletext 'feature' crashes or just doesn't work.

- Not only does the software crash randomly, it crashes leaving ugly .NET stack traces visible to me.

- The software website is also a shambles.

Oh but the radio channels worked perfectly.

 

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Posted by kola | Thursday 03 May 2007 5:02 PM

thanks for the heads up I will avoid ;-)

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