Zaključak

Compro VideoMate Live je proizvod koji će danas teško naći svoga kupca. u
stanju je snimati samo analogan TV program, što i ne bi bila tolika mana da
je recenziran još prije par godina. Budućnost je u digitalnoj televiziji i
za cijenu jednog ovakvog tunera moguće je nabaviti hibridni tip. Nadalje,
kvaliteta slike je relativno loša i vidjeli smo proizvode koji su imali puno
bolji prijam. Hot plug bug još dodatno zagorčava okus u ustima, pa je mali
bučan ventilator najmanje bitna stvar na cijelom popisu negativnih strana.

Doduše, nije baš sve loše u vezi ovog tunera. Daljinski upravljač je vrlo
solidan, dizajn uređaja je dobar, a ComproPVR aplikacija dobro obavlja sve
ono što se od nje traži, a i bundle je vrlo solidan. Iz svega viđenog možemo
jedino zaključiti kako je VideoMate Live pogodan svim onim korisnicima koji
imaju starije računalo (koje ne žele u bliskoj budućnosti nadograđivati) i
kojima je bitno što više rasteretiti procesor.

 

Conclusion

Compro VideoMate Live is a product that will hardly find a way to the end
user today. It can only record analogue TV in the time when digital TV is
slowly emerging (and will replace the analogue transmission in the near future).
If we had tested it a couple of years ago, it would have got a better mark.
For the retail price of this tuner, you can get a hybrid one which supports
both digital and analogue TV. Of course, the purpose of this tuner is to decrease
the workload of the CPU. Today’s CPUs are much more powerful than those which
were launched 3 years ago (at that time, this tuner appeared on the market).
Furthermore the picture quality is rather bad and we have seen better quality
on other tuners. It appears that the tuner has a bad signal reception despite
a very good fishbone antenna which we used during our testing. Another problem
is a hot plug bug and we must nott forget the little noisy fan inside the
VideoMate.

This prodct has some good sides too, for example the remote control is very
good and we liked the stylish exterior of the tuner. ComproPVR software is
stabile na very good, and the bundle is nice also. At the end we can only
conclude that VideoMate Live is good for those users which have an older PC
and don’t want to upgrade it with a new multicore CPU.