A couple of mini-USB ATSC tuners - Artec T14A & FujuPlus FD-USB728

by Matt Burns, posted Jul 19th 2006 at 12:43PM

These ~~little~~ tiny ATSC slipped right under our radar. These are the first USB thumb-drive size ATSC tuners we have ever seen; we have peeped tons of DVB-T ones with jealous eyes till now. The first one is by Artec (T14A) and has just an ATSC tuner and antenna port on the unit. They even include an adapter so you can plug a real antenna into it rather then that thin piece of aluminum they call an antenna. The second one is by FujuPlus (FD-USB728); they add a NTSC and QAM tuner to the mix. The first one is going for $89 bucks and the second for $99. Nice. We did dig up a AVS Forum thread that deals with the Artec if you want more info.

We have been waiting for these little tuners for a while...now if they could only work with OS X.

Read:
Artec T14A
FujuPlus (FD-USB728)

Tags: atsc, dtv, dvb-t, hdtv, ntsc, qam, tv, usb

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Big Sam @ Jul 19th 2006 2:52PM

If the QAM tuner on the Fujiplus is any good I'd buy it.

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AD @ Jul 20th 2006 10:45AM

i would love to have a OS X compatible one too! is anyone listening? :)

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Gabe @ Jul 20th 2006 2:44PM

Someone on AVS Forum found that they pulled QAM as a feature saying it was a "marketing mistake"! QAM was what I needed... boo hoo.

http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showthread.php?p=8040702&&#post8040702

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Tekin @ Aug 19th 2006 12:52AM

USB ATSC HDTV Receiver
http://www.dvbchina.net Email: hdtvdvb@163.com
Product Specification
Feature:
- Digital, off-air receiver (ATSC); cable TV (ATSC) receiver；analog, off-air receiver (NTSC); cable TV (NTSC) receiver
- Tunes and Decodes all 18 approved ATSC DTV Broadcast formats
- Selectable DTV Output resolution (480i/480p/720p/1080i)
- Standard definition NTSC 480i output
- Off-air antenna; cable input; RF output jack: (75 Ω, F-type)
- Aspect ratio control in 4:3 and 16:9 mode
- Stereo Analog output (lie on PC audio system)

Discussion Forums: http://www.dvbchina.net/forum/default.asp

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Tim @ Sep 27th 2006 10:23PM

Received my Artec A14T today, ($60) playing with it since then. Bare bones but functional. Controls are (1) scan for channels, (2) play, (3) change aspect ratio. Resizeable window or full-screen. If scan finds it, you can watch it; no channel edit/add/delete functions provided. (Might be able to hack the data file if I can locate it.) No channel numbers, just callsigns. Pretty much same results when scanning with supplied antenna or rabbit ears, mini-yagi finds a few more (all un-amplified). No DVR func yet. I would love QAM too. It won't tolerate USB 1.1 (Tried it on a lesser LT.) Worth $60, glad I didn't pay $100.

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