I’ve recently obtained this gadget for testing and was quite impressed by its simplicity and capabilities. The manufacturer of the device is Tunxon Ages and I think they succeeded to create pretty nice solution for home and small office. The included software supports XP, Vista and 7 which is nice. Unfortunately we were unable to test its performance under 64 bit versions of these OS. The recording and preview quality is very good – quite better than BT878A based capture devices – low noise and good picture quality. However we found some bugs within the software which are worth to be mentioned together with our solutions.

1. The device came with CD including 2.11 Version of their TE software which seemed to be working flawlessly, but when we tried to playback recordings we were unable to run the player. On the manufacturer site there used to be  newer version 2.12 available for download having this error corrected – but now it is replaced with 2.13 link pointing to a broken archive.  So be careful – now the official site provides partly broken RAR archive stating version 2.13 which is useless – and contains archived folder of installed 2.12 version – if you need the real installation files of working TE DVR 2.12, please contact us. Only upgrading to 2.12 version will solve the playback problem.

2. When creating a video storage database , the program writes  a file on your HDD. The bug is that from the “Settings” option the user is neither able to perform “Delete database”, nor to change the storage size currently allocated. This problem is appearing in both versions we currently have and needs to be solved manually. So where is our video database? The file is hidden in the root folder of the assigned record drive and is named “FDDVR.db” having attributes +h +s. The easier way to remove it is under dos prompt – “CMD”. Just type the following lines “attrib fddvr.db -h -s” “del fddrv.db”. When you need to resize the storage you can first delete the database and then create a new one with the right size.

Have fun !