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Not ready for prime time,
August 17, 2010 Vox Florida - See all my reviews
This review is from: Diamond Multimedia Tvw750usbms Diamond Tv Wonder Hd 750 (Personal Computers)
I have spent about a month evaluating the ATI TV Wonder HD 750, and I have to recommend that you do not buy it. It is not ready for prime time.
The device, first, consistently fails to be recognized at system start-up. I mean it does not even appear in the device manager. You have to yank it out of its USB port and plug it back in, each and every time you start your computer up. The boy at tech support with whom I spoke about this issue with the first of these I received was clueless as to the cause. He told me it must be defective device. Well, the second one Amazon sent me behaved in exactly the same way, so this is not a unit defect, but a design defect. This device is simply not compliant with the plug and play specification under Windows XP SP 3. I have to wonder how many times I can yank this out of the USB port to reinsert it before the port will begin to break down.
Then, even when the device is recognized under Windows, it completely fails to...Read more
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