Just wanna share my bad experience with pinnacle hybrid tv usb stick.
and caution others against pinnacle tv tuner products.
I recently bought a pinnacle hybrid tv usb stick,
and the following list the dissatisfaction I faced:
1) Installation takes like 10-20 minutes
2) Super Buggy Software
a) new channel settings are not saved/updated correctly
b) and sometimes settings are duplicated (eg multiple same Channels settings)
c) garbarge text characters appear on settings sometimes
d) and the tv app totally cannot start when above happens (c)
3) Really Bad reception, cannot receive channel U (HDB tv cable)
4) Application software startup is very slow
5) Installed disk space in application folder takes about 500MB, which is ridiculous!! (I later bought wintv, which is only about 15MB)
Its so bad that i simply cannot believe they release such a product into the market.
As a software engineering guy, I can understand the design decisions
they made, and will totally condemn this product's design and implementaion.
Also, the software is used across all their new tv tuner products.
So DO NOT BUY PINNACLE tv tuner products!!
Infact, I would personally condemn all pinnalce's products,
after seeing their standard of engineering and QC,
simply cannot believe they allow such a product in the market.
Luckily, I bought it from challenger and they allow me to "return"
the product with a service charge of around $10
(Challenger service is great

Subsequently I bought a happauge wintv, and so far quite satisfied with it
(thou not entirely, I have high expectations "-)
regards
Blazon (helping to bring consumer rights to a level where it belongs)