TV tuner can lead to a PC within touching distance of full entertainment center. While PCI based TV tuners cheaper for desktop computers, laptop users will find USB-based tuners useful. Through the ability to easily connect to any PC or laptop, they are ideal in situations where there are multiple computers used.We testing USB TV tuner from the three leading brands and found that the Compro VideoMate Action offers the best performance at a competitive price point. The picture quality was excellent, devoid of any noise or convulsions and reproduce colors and contrasts were the best among all the USB TV tuner we examined. The tuner also fast, it takes less than 5 minutes to set up 100 channels.

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The software bundled with TV tuners, are not friendly around, but PVR2 of Compro was a pleasant surprise, with a simple navigation and a decent set of features (we found , Pinnacle Media Center to have more opportunities, but it was very difficult to get used to it).Like most tuners of its kind, Compro VideoMate Action can be regarded as S-Video, composite video and stereo inputs, along with the standard RF input. Remote control with video-Mat is a simple, basic form that is easy to learn, unlike some other tuners that offer sophisticated bulky remotes.You can record video with any codec installed on your computer, which gives you some size Vs as an option. Direct DVD burning is not the same.