bit-tech Shopping: Smith Micro DTV4PC

Rating: 2

Time with product: 1 Day

Strengths: Easy install

Weaknesses: Buggy. Not ready for Prime Time!

Summary: This software sounds good, but what you are going to need is Good Luck and patience! It installed easily enough, but that's where everything easy ended. When the program fires up it tries to update its list of stations, but says "No Internet Connection Detected". Internet is working and I can get a FEW stations so it is obviously working. Disabled firewall - no help. Go to the help which has a link to a web server that does not exist. Go to their home page for support and all there is is a knowledge base with 1 (yes ONE) answer for this entire product. Constantly getting fatal "floating point divide by zero" errors. I am able to get some stations to come in, but the quality is, bluntly, CRAPPY. I have version 1.0.0.4 and tried to download a more current version, but there is no provision on their site to do that! I've had enough of this frustration and will just uninstall it and throw it in the trash. It was free after rebate, so all I've lost is my time, If I had paid anything for it I would not be happy. Even free, I would not buy it. Run away from DTV4PC unless you seek pain!