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(I will run out of patience though and end up buying the Y22 some day when I'm bored thats inevitable) I'd gladly pay that or more for one I know for a fact is better, but while I've got my $30-40 out of the two 130's I've bought in the past couple years, twice bitten thrice shy. Given the low build quality and crappy firmware, and lack of clarity on what exactly they've improved (if anything, really) I think $60 cdn isn't what I'm willing to throw at a 'maybe' or to be the guinea pig. Given all these issues - when it works it works I can't complain.

Finally sometimes when you turn it on, the screen will be skewed about 5% to the right and bottom with black and white bars on the top and left of the screen, off kilter, requiring a restart.

I've also tried using a HDD with an external power source, also no luck. I tried jamming some paper in to make sure the connection was tight with mixed results. Sometimes its fine, but when this happens its incredible frustrating.

When the USB hard drive is plugged in, it will constantly cycle between 'USB device has been mounted' and 'USB device unplugged' every 30 sec or so, in a loop.

There's no way to start it over but unplugging and plugging back in when this happens

When turned on it will suffer from freezing and will be stuck on a channel for long periods, especially if the signal is weak/dropping.

And since the passthrough doesn't work if the power is on with the 130 (I understand it has a setting that you can do pass trhough even when turned on with the 150), it means both my other TV's in the house dont get any channels when that happens, requiring a walk upstairs to turn off the STB. I'd much rather spring the extra bucks for the new one to see if the latest version yields any improvements. I just try to remember that.Ĭlick to expand.I am already on my second 130 and its on its last legs.

#MEDIASONIC HOMEWORX HW 150PVR 5.4 FIRMWARE DOWNLOAD TV#

Tyler's audience is someone who isn't curious enough to be on this forum who just wants to put up an antenna and have their TV channels working with no fuss.

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I've wanted to dig into the actual metrics, understanding the different dB measurements and what they mean, how to understand what is meant by SNR, dbVm, dBm etc etc, but I'm a liiiiittle bit more interested than most.

It's probably other factors like weather rather than any antenna difference most of the time. I'm not going to be as definitive as he is with 'this antenna got a better signal than the last one I tested' when the variance is like 4%. I think he's good if you take it for who it is intended.īut the fact he does antenna reviews and uses the mediasonic signal percentage to do his comparisons means that I really don't take them too seriously because I know my fringe signals vary easily 10-15% from day to day and hour to hour where I live when measured with the homeworx signal meter. His ranting and raving about cheap Amazon promoted antennas with bogus range claims and thousands of fake reviews, and constant re-explanation of basics like virtual vs actual channel is funny. People just seem to think OTA died with analog. I know anecdotally when I tell people you can get the main 4 Canadian networks in a paper clip if you live in Toronto and with a $50 yagi or 2 bay you can probably get 18 channels reliably. The comment about how mediasonic probably have a trove of returned units because of things that have nothing to do with the tuner kind of speaks to the lack of knowledge and sophistication with regard to OTA. He makes antenna tv accessible to the masses who aren't going to dive into this as a hobby and just need a surface level. I like Tyler because he's able to explain things in a simple every man kind of way. Click to expand.I think you hit the nail on the head exactly here.

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