TV Tunner - No Channels

[cppmonkey]

I bought a ATMT FreeStick Digital DVB-T Stick
I have tried it on 3 different PCs with the same result. No channels in any application I try, be it Windows Media Centre, Presto! PVR and TV Jukebox(Suppied with the device)

I have tried it on my Samsung NC10 with Windows XP SP3 and 2 desktops with Windows 7 RC and my other laptop also with Windows 7 RC.

I have tried some driver recommended by drvierguide.com to no avail


If anyone could help that would be great

CppMonkey

[Funkstar]

Have you tried using a normal fixed aerial that is known to get a Freeview signal?

[synaesthesia]

Yes, good test. The USB sticks are pretty much only able to get a signal & of course the channels involved when you're either right next to the transmitter or in an otherwise extremely good signal area, on top of a hill

[cppmonkey]

Have you tried using a normal fixed aerial that is known to get a Freeview signal?

Ops, I forgot to mention I had tried it on the house antenna using 2 different points, both of which get excellent reception. Yet I still can't get anything on the USB stick.

[jackvdbuk]

has the driver been succesfully installed, i suggest a re-install regardless and try again.

[cppmonkey]

Yes the drivers installed just fine, the little blue light came on everytime.

And there were no warnings or errors in the Hardware manager interface

[jackvdbuk]

when you first plugged in the stick, did windows try to install drivers?

[cppmonkey]

As per-usual, yes (url parsons151185.googlepages.com/ATMTDigialReceiver.PNG)

I have tried reinstalling it. And it still doesn't work.

Been trying to find GraphEdit, should be on here seeing I have Windows SDK 7.0a installed

Others have said MSI 580 drivers work, but the device seem to stay in 'cold mode' without the firmware loaded. Linux...downloaded some firmware it wanted ( and couldn't find) but it also failed to load. Can't find any firmware suitable for this ATMT piece of crap.

Get what you pay for =( Guess it might as well go back to SCAN

Sucks being as skint Games Developer Student. I'll have to do some more computer repair jobs to come up with the cash for a decent one, dual tuner this time. Any recommendations?

[jackvdbuk]

seeing as your skint, ill give you my blackgold single tuner tv card (only works on 32bit vista/xp iirc) for a tenner?