The Best TV Stick for UK Freeview

We are an independent retailer and have searched high and low to bring you the best TV sticks money can buy. We have tested more than a dozen TV Sticks from different manufacturers including Freecom , Pinnacle, Hauppauge, K-World, and V-Gear (plus many unbranded ones). Our Objective was simple - to find the best all round TV Stick for UK Freeview. Our tests included operation with several different aerials, from small antennas to set top and roof top aerials, and several different locations including mobile. Tests were carried out where it matters, right here in the UK.

We have chosen our TV Sticks above all of the others, for a number of reasons;

• Channel Reception - Probably the most important aspect of any Freeview Receiver - if it can't receive the channels you want, it is useless. Many TV Sticks we tested struggled to capture every UK Freeview channel transmitted even with good quality roof top aerials. Of the few that did pick up all of the channels, we chose the one that worked most reliably in the broadest number of situations.

• Picture Quality - The TV Stick takes the digital TV pictures and captures them to disk or screen without re-sampling or transcoding. Therefore the image you see is the exactly the image that was transmitted, you could spend hundreds of pounds on a TV Stick and still not get better picture quality!

• Application Software - ArcSoft TotalMedia is a complete TV and PVR package that can be used either locally with a mouse, or from across the room by Remote Control. No other bundled software we tested came close to TotalMedia for features and ease of use.

• Features and Functionality - The TV Stick and TotalMedia package offers easy channel scanning, fast channel changing (some TV Sticks are painfully slow at channel changing) support for the Freeview over-the-air Electronic Program Guide (EPG) and Subtitles. The TV Stick features dual LEDs to indicate correct operation, signal strength and remote control reception. Additionally the TV Stick package includes an adapter for use with a larger aerial (Set top or Rooftop), and a USB extension lead so you can position the TV Stick where you can see the LEDs and point the remote control at it. A complete and unbeatable package!