Pinnacle PCTV Pro at Compusa Free AR

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Danzilla

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<< Their website says that all stores in my area have this in stock; but when I went to one, they were all out. >>

If you looked carefully at the CompUSA listing for availability at the local stores, you'd see that it is as of XXX XXX XXX, at the bottom of the page. This is updated every morning so if it's sold out since then, it will still show in stock. Of course the information could just be wrong. Check and see what it says after it's updated tomorrow morning.

D.
 

epoth

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Jan 21, 2002
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The shelf was cleaned out at my local CUSA, but one of the helpful drones grabbed one from the back. Rebate form from the front says $50.

GL!
 

KLineD

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Just to save you guys some time, both the stores in NYC are OOS. maybe queens has it, didn't check.
 

mpjohnst

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Same happened to me in Boston... said it was in stock in 3 stores close to me but none of them had it... doh!
 

vcarpio2

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A couple months ago I bought the 64MB compact flash at CompUSA. They ran out of the rebate form so one of the salespeople told me I can just go to their website and download the form. He then took me to a PC, ran the browser, loaded the rebate form and printed it for me.

From what I understood from the saleperson, rebate forms at their website serve as backup in case the B&M store runs out of them.

I purchased the PCTV Pro yesterday (NYACK, NY) and got the $20 rebate form at the store. I'll mail the $50 rebate I downloaded instead.

The PCTV Pro, IMO, is so much better than the ATI TV Wonder VE. It's stereo and comes with a remote.
 

luv2liv

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Dec 27, 2001
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i just bought this card. thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you
was about to buy the tv wonder from bb with my 30.00 gc from the previous hot deal too!

so i dl the xp driver everything works awesome! full screen at 1600x1200 is no prob. i havent experienced any problems as some peop here mentioned.

i still cant get the remote to control other apps like winamp or power dvd. i dont even see any options to config the remote. any help would b greatly appreciated.

again, thanks for this hot deal!
 

Hawk

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stupid online stock checker doesn't work! two different stores said in stock and both were out, that or the employees were hiding them...=)
 

Hawk

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BTW, I don't think it's an issue. I checked the website today and instead of showing 29.99 AR, it said 0.01 AR, so the $50 rebate should be legit.
 

cLiPLiK

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anyone willing to help out a fellow ater and make a lil extra, plz contact me
i want this card but it was all sold out!
if anyone has an extra or doesn't want theirs, pm or email at cliplik@hotmail.com
thanks everyone
 

uwannawhat

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Jan 23, 2002
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Just to be sure, I'm enclosing a copy of the website price of $0.01 with my rebate request.
 

KLineD

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Here we go. In your REMOTE folder in the pctv folder in program files, you have a "profiles.ini" file. key##=*******
exec to run, keyboard for buttons....
[default] happens when none of the below programs are active
so what I did is remove most of the stuff below [default] and put my own stuff in.
I wanted the arrows to do like they are, so i put in :
key59=KEYBOARD RIGHT+^RIGHT
key123=KEYBOARD RIGHT+^RIGHT
key61=KEYBOARD LEFT+^LEFT
key125=KEYBOARD LEFT+^LEFT
key127=KEYBOARD up+^up
key126=keyboard down+^down

Key 59 is the key when UP is pressed, and 123 is when UP is held... the keyboard tells it its going to be a button press, right = press right, and ^right = let go of right...and so on and so forth. Here is the list of key#s, assign them to whatever you wish and have fun. BTW you can combine keystrokes like key###=keyboard alt+ctrl+del+^alt+^ctrl+^del+alt+ctrl+del+^alt+^ctrl+^del and now when you press that key...what do you think happens? (win9x only heh)

EDIT: forums took out my tabs so i gotta redo this...o well ill put it into a table:
Edit: argh table dont work either ok try to figure it out...im going to use as a separator between fields lol.

One press Held down

7 FastForward 71
11 Stop 75
13 Play 77
14 Rewind 78
19 ArrowDown/Right 83
21 Pause 85
22 Arrow Down/Left 86
23 Chanel+ 87
28 Chanel- 92
24 EPG 88
25 Play/pause 89
26 Center 90
27 Vol+ 91
15 Vol- 79
29 Menu 93
30 Zoom 94
31 Listing 95
37 Last Chanel 101
38 TV 102
39 Record 103
41 Teletext 105
42 Radio 106
43 Info 107
45 Fullscreen 109
46 Preview 110
47 Power 111
49 1 113
50 2 114
51 3 115
52 4 116
53 5 117
54 6 118
55 7 119
56 8 120
57 9 121
58 0 122
59 Right 123
60 Mute 124
61 Left 125
62 Down 126
63 Up 127

 

Devistater

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<< i want one too! please PM if you have extra! >>



Well for me, I'm only buying one. If I bought more than 1 they would be $50 each since its a limit of 1 rebate per household, and you wouldn't be able to send in rebate from my receipt, so why would someone buy and sell extra??
 

Sachmho

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i have to warn, i got one of these a while back for a similar deal, and when i got around to trying it out recently it was the biggest headache ever... all sorts of driver problems, couldn't remove their stuff, etc... i don't want to go too far into it, but it gave me much hassle...
 

Hawk

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KlineD, good job. Hopefully I can find one of these and actually use your info.

"Well for me, I'm only buying one. If I bought more than 1 they would be $50 each since its a limit of 1 rebate per household, and you wouldn't be able to send in rebate from my receipt, so why would someone buy and sell extra??"

People with 2 addresses? Just being nice? You could've gotten separate receipts or something...not THAT outrageous to buy more than one.
 

Joyride

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I am setting my damn alarm to get up and wait outside my local CUSA to get one

ALways wanted tv on my PC

Also can someone run down the best software to use with this card?
 

theshamu

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Just installed the card. This is my second PCTV pro. The first was a big hassle to install. This time I LEARNED:
Here's how I got it to work under XP pro with NO problem whatsoever:

1. Download the 4.02a version from the german support site (might as well throw away the in-box CD);
2. Unzip the file but DON'T install;
3. Turn off computer and install the card;
(I was having a problem here though - anyone has problem with this card's top connector being to close to the edge? I CANNOT plug it in with this particular case, so I had to remove the bracket!)
4. Power on and XP will pop up the hardware install wizard, specify the directory where the driver was unziped to and install;
5. Although it warns twice the drivers are not XP certified(?), proceed;
6. After all drivers get installed, install the software from the unzipped files but choose custom install option and uncheck drivers;
7. Restart when asked to;
8. After XP boots up, the Pinnacle Assistant software will run through the tests;
9. Run the TV viewer and choose autoscan for channels - that's ALL!

Hope this may be helpful to some. If you already installed drivers and are having problems, you may need to use the Regdelete utility from Pinnacle's website.


 

soma

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KLineD


U the Man.

I was able to configure windows media player with the information given by you.
Tomorrow I ll work on Power DVD

Thanks
 

chibchakan

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<< Just to save you guys some time, both the stores in NYC are OOS. maybe queens has it, didn't check >>



I got the last one in Rego Park, after going to over 5 stores in NYC, I better get my $50 bucks.

 

Devistater

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Sep 9, 2001
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<< "Well for me, I'm only buying one. If I bought more than 1 they would be $50 each since its a limit of 1 rebate per household, and you wouldn't be able to send in rebate from my receipt, so why would someone buy and sell extra??"

People with 2 addresses? Just being nice? You could've gotten separate receipts or something...not THAT outrageous to buy more than one.
>>



Yes, but I don't have a need for more than one, and I not sure I want to risk the additional money so... Anyway, if you pay with a credit card, I think your name appears on the cusa receipt doesn't it? I'll have to check one of my old cusa receipts and see.
 

caricell

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Just picked one of these babies up at CUSA in Plantation, FL. When i asked how many they had, the guy said "bring your truck, if you want." The card rang up at 69-20 instant- 49.99. They did not have any rebate forms at the store, so I am using the printout off the net. Reading about this business about getting the rebate only if you buy from COMP.com really disturbs me. The $50 rebate form is VERY clear and simply says "buy from COMPUSA." NOT compusa.com. Nowhere in the offer is "good only for purchases on COMP.com" mentioned anywhere. You BET I'll be yelling and screaming if they give me THAT baloney!
 
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