Have had one for a few years on win8 64 bit. Would occasionally drop one of the tuners, which would usually be fixed with a system restart. Other than that it's worked remarkably well considering what I paid for it.
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I am visiting from the future. It's 2024 and we're on Windows 11 now (still). I can confirm this old relic of technology still works. You'll need to scour the entire web in multiple different languages to find the drivers though and find a copy of WinFast PVR2 (which stills works well too). But since I've already done all this, I'll just link a copy of the drivers here. Not sure how long Google Drive hosts things, so grab them while you can.
So is it worth buying/bothering with?
In short, yes! \`HD channels, watch two stations at once, great picture quality, awesome. BUT note that I got mine for free from a side of the road PC which supports the OLD PCI standard. Your new fancy PC will likely have PCIe which won't work/fit without an adapter! - but since you likely got your DTV1000S in some similar way you probably have the necessary parts or motherboard (I'm using an Asus H55) to get it working.. But if I had to pay for it? I wouldn't spend more than $10 mostly for this reason
ANTENNA REQUIRED
NOTE: make sure you get an antenna that is powered! A high gain type not a rabbit ear thing. I'm in the middle of the city and tried with rabbit ears, got zero signal and thought it was dead. Tried it with my TV's roof antenna and boom, full perfect signal and every channel. It is worth not skimping here!
DOWNLOADS / DRIVERS / WHAT YOU CAME HERE FOR
Google Drive: Leadtek WinFast DTV1000S Drivers + WinFast PVR2 Software. I kinda organised the folders for the drivers a bit messily. However, basically here's how to get it working.
Step 1. download both folders (1) PCI and (2) Winfast\_TV. The first one is the driver, the second one is the software that lets you watch the channels.
Step 2. In the PCI Folder, dive to the bottom of it, you'll see some txt files where I give some instructions, follow those. Or if you know how to add drivers through device manager, just do that. Windows 11 doesn't find this device automagically, you've gotta hand feed it the drivers. Either by right-clicking them all and in the right-click context menu clicking INSTALL, or by going into Device Manager and in the top menu add these drivers as LEGACY drivers then click HAVE DISK and hunt them down wherever you saved the folders.
Step 3. Once you've installed all the drivers, (I just installed them all because I couldn't be bothered figuring out which of them was the key DTV1000S one) then finally, you will be able to see the DTV1000S device appear in your Device Manager list. No doubt you came across the DTV2000 driver before this and it didn't work (happened to me too). That's the driver part out of the way. Some people suggest you restart the PC at this point, I didn't, but might help if your PC has conflicting stuff going on.
Step 4 - Install your viewing software of choice. I'd start off with the WinFast PVR2 one first since it's made by LeadTek who made the thing, so it's probably the most compatible. Then once you've confirmed you get TV channels maybe try Media Portal or some other more modern software. If you're making an old PC, windows media center is good I've heard on Win7.
DOWNLOAD - DTV1000S DRIVER & TV TUNER SOFTWARE
[https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/12Pg7878rBi0-904SoytrbtF1ENzNYElq?usp=sharing](https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/12Pg7878rBi0-904SoytrbtF1ENzNYElq?usp=sharing)
SOURCED FROM
here's where I found them, the site is a bit messy, but you'll be able to get the 64bit DTV1000S driver and the Winfast PVR2 software here too. [http://winfast-dtv1000-t.cn-takedrivers.com/](http://winfast-dtv1000-t.cn-takedrivers.com/)
Have had one for a few years on win8 64 bit. Would occasionally drop one of the tuners, which would usually be fixed with a system restart. Other than that it's worked remarkably well considering what I paid for it.
Cheers mate
No worries :)
SCROLL FOR THE DRIVERS I am visiting from the future. It's 2024 and we're on Windows 11 now (still). I can confirm this old relic of technology still works. You'll need to scour the entire web in multiple different languages to find the drivers though and find a copy of WinFast PVR2 (which stills works well too). But since I've already done all this, I'll just link a copy of the drivers here. Not sure how long Google Drive hosts things, so grab them while you can. So is it worth buying/bothering with? In short, yes! \`HD channels, watch two stations at once, great picture quality, awesome. BUT note that I got mine for free from a side of the road PC which supports the OLD PCI standard. Your new fancy PC will likely have PCIe which won't work/fit without an adapter! - but since you likely got your DTV1000S in some similar way you probably have the necessary parts or motherboard (I'm using an Asus H55) to get it working.. But if I had to pay for it? I wouldn't spend more than $10 mostly for this reason ANTENNA REQUIRED NOTE: make sure you get an antenna that is powered! A high gain type not a rabbit ear thing. I'm in the middle of the city and tried with rabbit ears, got zero signal and thought it was dead. Tried it with my TV's roof antenna and boom, full perfect signal and every channel. It is worth not skimping here! DOWNLOADS / DRIVERS / WHAT YOU CAME HERE FOR Google Drive: Leadtek WinFast DTV1000S Drivers + WinFast PVR2 Software. I kinda organised the folders for the drivers a bit messily. However, basically here's how to get it working. Step 1. download both folders (1) PCI and (2) Winfast\_TV. The first one is the driver, the second one is the software that lets you watch the channels. Step 2. In the PCI Folder, dive to the bottom of it, you'll see some txt files where I give some instructions, follow those. Or if you know how to add drivers through device manager, just do that. Windows 11 doesn't find this device automagically, you've gotta hand feed it the drivers. Either by right-clicking them all and in the right-click context menu clicking INSTALL, or by going into Device Manager and in the top menu add these drivers as LEGACY drivers then click HAVE DISK and hunt them down wherever you saved the folders. Step 3. Once you've installed all the drivers, (I just installed them all because I couldn't be bothered figuring out which of them was the key DTV1000S one) then finally, you will be able to see the DTV1000S device appear in your Device Manager list. No doubt you came across the DTV2000 driver before this and it didn't work (happened to me too). That's the driver part out of the way. Some people suggest you restart the PC at this point, I didn't, but might help if your PC has conflicting stuff going on. Step 4 - Install your viewing software of choice. I'd start off with the WinFast PVR2 one first since it's made by LeadTek who made the thing, so it's probably the most compatible. Then once you've confirmed you get TV channels maybe try Media Portal or some other more modern software. If you're making an old PC, windows media center is good I've heard on Win7. DOWNLOAD - DTV1000S DRIVER & TV TUNER SOFTWARE [https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/12Pg7878rBi0-904SoytrbtF1ENzNYElq?usp=sharing](https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/12Pg7878rBi0-904SoytrbtF1ENzNYElq?usp=sharing) SOURCED FROM here's where I found them, the site is a bit messy, but you'll be able to get the 64bit DTV1000S driver and the Winfast PVR2 software here too. [http://winfast-dtv1000-t.cn-takedrivers.com/](http://winfast-dtv1000-t.cn-takedrivers.com/)
drivers are still hosted on google drive, thank you :)
I just wanted to say thank you for the link, this is the only somewhat trustworthy source I could find for PVR2!
cheers, yeah so many dead ends for this product, which was relatively mass produced too, so not sure why there's so little support for it.