AutumnWave OnAir GT USB HDTV Receiver Review
TV has become a huge part of our daily lives, not only for entertainment but information and education as well, most houses have more than one TV that’s on most of time. With technology we’ve seen ways to bring our entertainment with us to our desktop PCs and even take it with us on our laptops, but up until lately most of those devices were for basic over the air channels and cable TV hookups if available. With the quickly approaching deadline for going digital TV only we’re seeing more and more products that offer the ability to tune in those digital stations, and some of those feature the ability to tune in HDTV stations as well, call it an added bonus I guess.
Personally we’ve got three TVs in our house, but only the main 27” one gets used really and that’s mainly for watching children’s shows. I’ve got three young children and we either watch PBS children’s programming or one of our many DVDs or VHS tapes that we have, and the TV watching is done through standard over-that-air channels. I did have cable at one point but found that we never utilized it, we usually only watched one or two channels and paying the extortionate amounts that cable asks was just not worth it to us.
Today for review I’ve got an excellent product from a company called AutumnWave that’s called the OnAir GT. The OnAir GT is a portable HDTV/DTV/ATV receiver that allows you to not only watch Hi-Def television on your PC but also record it to watch later like a standard DVR allows you. The OnAir GT also features the ability to attach external devices like game systems, video cameras, and DVD players as well to watch on your computer, or record, like in-game movies to share with your friends. It comes with a fully functional remote to control the OnAir GT, and even comes with software to edit the videos that you’ve recorded.
I have to say that this is one of the coolest and most useful products to come across my review desk in quite a while, in my time with it I’ve got a chance to really enjoy watching HDTV and DTV on my PC, it’s amazing how much of a difference there is between analog and digital television programming. I really like the DVR feature of the OnAir GT it allows me to not miss shows that I normally do because I’m busy doing something else, I can record them and watch later when I get some free time. I don’t watch much TV really, basically because I don’t like having to schedule my time around a TV show, now though I can record and watch whenever I want and that to me is worth quite a bit, full control over my time management is something that is priceless…
AutumnWave OnAir GT USB HDTV Receiver Review
Author: Kristofer Brozio
Sponsor: AutumnWave