| Our contacts: E-mail info#beholdtv.com Phone: +852-580-83265   |
Press about usReview of hybrid USB tuner Behold TV Cruise on site PCTuner.ru! "Behold TV Cruise is not a first tuner with USB interface in Beholder product line and it was expected that functionally it will turn to be head and shoulders above its predecessors. And so it happened. Behold TV Cruise supports all actual today analog and digital, aerial and cable standards of TV and radio. Flexible application software allows to completely reveal all hardware capabilities of tuner and, at that time, has transparent and friendly interface. Taking into account that situation around digital video broadcast standards is stabilized, we can confidently say that new tuner model well also be demanded in the future for many years". 25 November 2014 Test of hybrid USB tuner Behold TV Cruise on site Reviews.ru! "Reviewed in details all features and capabilities of new hybrid USB TV-tuner Behold TV Cruise, we may say for sure that this model suits ideally for current condition". 26 September 2014 Test of hybrid PCI-E tuner BeholdTV T8 on site Reviews.ru! "It's time to draw conclusion. I treat the new PCI-E tuner BeholdTV T8 to be logical development of Beholder product line, which thus far had only one PCI model with full support of major digital terrestrial broadcast standards. BeholdTV T8 is interesting not only by its miniature size, but also by extended functional support and excellent quality of analog television reception, which makes it very interesting from the pont of view of using it in compact Mini-ITX and HTPC computers". 1 December 2013 Full review of hybrid TV-tuner Behold TV T7 with support of DVB-T/T2/C on site Reviews.ru! "Finalizing the talk about possibilities of new hybrid TV-tuner Behold TV T7, I should note that this model came right at the time… What concerns tuner itself, to be more precise, production sample of Behold TV T7, it worth to mention that due to the fact that developers used classical hardware-software platform, new tuner allowed to get guaranteed high quality of reception of both digital and analog broadcast, which in conjunction with well developed features of application software, for sure allows us to call this model a leader on the market of hybrid TV-tuners with support of DVB-T/T2/C standards". 30 September 2013 Review of hybrid TV-tuner Behold TV T7 on site F1CD.ru!
5 September 2013 Review of TV tuner Behold TV T7 on site Reviews.ru! "Actually, there is only one question remaining for me: how this tuner will work in my conditions, which I treat to be non-ideal for stable reception of DVB-T2 reception? Thus far I can tell that using well known, I must even say proven by time, hardware stuff and the best application software in the market, allowed to keep excellent quality, rich functionality and available price, giving us the possibility not only to touch the new generation of digital TV broadcasting, but also to be ready for full scale launch of digital broadcasting throughout the country". 9 July 2013 Tablet PC Behold BeTAB 1042 – Android with Retina display. Review on site Hwp.ru!
27 February 2013 Videoreview of tablet PC Beholder Behold BeTAB 1042 on site F1CD.ru!
7 February 2013 "Beholder BeTAB 1041: excellent package" – note in the Chip magazine, December 2012. "As a rule, inexpensive tablets use displays of poor quality. Beholder BeTAB breaks this rule. For reasonable price the user gets tablet… with high quality IPS display… Gadget consumes energy rather economically. So, after an hour and a half of viewing stream video, the indicator of accumulator charge shown 78%." 11 December 2012 "Review of Behold BeTAB 7004, or impressions after a month of usage…" – review on site Reviews.ru!
1 November 2012 Comparison of two tablets – BeTAB 7004 and 1041 on site Hwp.ru! "Perhaps, this is my first article for many years, where I don't want (more precisely, I can't) to choose the winner. If at first it was easy enough to compare Behold BeTAB 7004 and 1041, then the more I tested both models, the more I understood that it is just impossible to choose "right" model. It is like comparison car with motorcycle. Yes, both of them are vehicles, but they are different per se, although both of them perform the same functions. But you'll not succeed making "right" choice, because everyone has its own understanding of "right". I must admit that, before this testing I was an adherent of 7-8" models. But once tested BeTAB 1041 as an outright 10" tablet (I'll not be afraid to call it "paragon" in its market price segment), I've got so deep doubts, that I don't know for sure what would I choose if I was faced such a choice. I hope if only readers will make that choice." 11 October 2012 Videoreview of tablet PC Beholder Behold BeTAB 7004 on site F1CD.ru!
9 October 2012 "Beholder BeTAB 1041 – 9,7" tablet PC with IPS display and favorable price/quality ratio" – review on site ChekLab.ru! "Tablet PC BeTAB 1041 made a good impression to us. High calculational performance, good display with normal resolution (although not as Retina), large built-in memory – all that are obvious pluses… Root firmware also adds positive features to the tablet. 3 October 2012 Videoreview of tablet PC Beholder Behold BeTAB 1041 on site F1CD.ru!
10 September 2012 "Behold BeTAB 1001: first Android tablet PC, that not ashamed to compare with iPad" – review on site Reviews.ru!
9 May 2012 "Second Android tablet PC from manufacturer of TV-tuners – Behold BeTAB 1001" – review on site Hwp.ru!
1 May 2012 Videoreview of tablet PC Beholder Behold BeTAB 1001 on site F1CD.ru!
28 April 2012 Videoreview of tablet PC Beholder Behold BeTAB 7071 F1CD.ru!
12 March 2012 Testing of Android tablet PC Behold BeTAB 7071 on site Hwp.ru (in Russian). Behold BeTAB wins award "Excellent buy"!
22 February 2012 Test of Android tablet PC Behold BeTAB on site Reviews.ru!
9 February 2012 «iXBT Brand 2011 – readers' choice» in nomination «TV-tuners» on web-site ixbt.ru!
13 January 2011 Videoreview of media player Behold MP Ventus on site F1CD.ru! "Video playback is up to HD 1080p, with good quality, thanks to digital interfaces HDMI 1,3b and S/PDIF. For compatibility with analog devices there is a full set of analog outputs. Network interfaces LAN 10/100 and WiFi (through additional USB-adapter) will make player the member of local network… 10 January 2012 Test of media player Behold MP Ventus. Review on site Reviews.ru!
9 December 2011 Review of new features of Beholder tuners on site Reviews.ru! "With the release of new software Beholder has once again raised the bar for quality and functionality expected for the modern tuners. Adding the ability to use multiple tuners in one PC has solved many problems, not having yet easy and 100% working solutions…" 2 June 2011 Review of Beholder tuners on site Reviews.ru! "Of course, one review is notenough for detailed investigation of all questions concerned with choice of modern TV tuner, nevertheless, even this will be sufficient to realize that there is nothing complicated in modern tuners, and once you understood what do you need and what you can expect from modern mnodels, the choice will not be difficult. In conclusion we would remember that capabilities of tuner depend not so on its hardware stuff as on application software. This become obvious on the sample of Beholder tuners, where even the cheapest models may boast of possibilities inavailable on tuners of other manufacturers". 13 May 2011 Videoreview of USB-tuners Behold TV Wander Lite and Behold TV Voyage Lite on site F1CD.ru! "If we are looking for compact tuner with stable receive of DVB-T signal and good receive of analog broadcast, then Behold TV Wander Lite is worthy candidate. Especially if we intend to use it with notebook, when the necessity in remote control is rather low. Wander Lite was able to receive well in "village". In "city" or with good cable TV signal it provides excellent picture. What concerns Voyage Lite, it is able to receive only analog TV, and its advantages and limitations comply with its possibilities. By the way, antenna inputs of both tuners support GIAI technology – it is galvanically insulated and protected from breakdown by high voltage". 27 April 2011 Videoreview of TV tuners BeholdTV A85 and BeholdTV H85 on site F1CD.ru! "Beholder Behold TV A85 and H85 – analog and hybrid PCI-E TV/FM tuners, saved by manufacturer from "excess weight". At that together with rarely used by mass consumers features (for example, RGB input) important functions weren't cut out. Entry level models keeped numerous functions of high level models, pleasantly loosing their price". 17 March 2011 Review of TV tuners BeholdTV H75, Voyage Lite and Wander Lite on site Reviews.ru! "Now each model from all TV tuner series got its low cost analog, that, as you could see above, provides not worse the quality of reception and supports all unique features, provided by the current release of application software. Even, in spite of my personal attitude to the release of low cost PCI and PCI-E tuner model line, I must acknowledge that now the possibility of choosing the tuner for specific requirements became much broader". 16 February 2011 Review of low-cost hybrid USB TV tuner Behold TV Wander Lite on site Hwp.ru! "User, first of all, is interested in receiving quality and low price. In 2011 Beholder company decided to renew the TV tuner product line, and to offer lite and low cost versions of their best TV tuners. Obvious sample of such lite model is Behold TV H85, and now the queue came to USB models. TV tuner Behold TV Wander Lite, the hero of our today's review, exactly designed for user, who reasonably counts every penny". 16 February 2011 Hybrid TV tuner Behold TV H85. Review on site Hwp.ru! "The standard for good modern TV tuner today is the PCI Express interface and support of both analog and digital DVB-T TV broadcast. And though each TV tuner manufacturer on Russian market has to have pure analog models in assortment for regions that yet haven't digital TV, our immense fatherland already has areas, where the aerial antenna can receive only digital TV broadcast and analog TV, if only exist, is available only by cable. As a rule, that are distant regions, far from provincial centers. But not always, – DVB-T signal is more robust to noise pickup, that's why even within one city where the analog TV retransmitter is in the visibility limits, there may be situation that analog TV is not received to the aerial antenna, if the building's windows directed towards the opposite side or the house is in the hollow. Digital TV is already presented in many regions of Russia and now hybrid TV tuners are the very things worth to buy." 1 February 2011 «iXBT Brand 2010 – Readers' Choice» in nomination «Manufacturer of TV tuners» on site ixbt.ru!
17 January 2011 Test of low cost PCI-E TV tuners Behold TV H85 and A85. Review on site Reviews.ru!
9 December 2010 Behold TV A7 – top analog TV tuner, test of new model on site Hwp.ru! "Today we'll review TV tuner Behold TV A7 from Beholder company, which, as known, doesn't need presentation. At present Beholder completely renews the product line of internal TV tuners for PC. First of all, changed the naming ideology – instead of three digits (for example, Behold TV 503, Behold TV 509 and so on) introduced naming «letter-digit», as for our tested Behold TV A7." 26 September 2010 BeholdTV 503 FM and A7: New revisions of well-known TV tuners. Review on site Reviews.ru! "Beholder company continues to renew the legendary product line of PCI TV tuners, and next to low cost model BeholdTV 501, that became a good choice for those who seek the most cheap TV-tuner, that combines the good receiving quality and extended functionality of BeholdTV application software, launches at once two models, that successfully extend the product line of popular models, targeted to users that seek an optimal TV tuner combining low price and extended hardware and software functionality, natural for top models of Beholder TV tuners." 8 September 2010 Beholder Behold TV Theme: Test/review of new TV Box on site f1cd.ru!
3 August 2010 Beholder Behold TV 501: Test/review of analog TV tuner on site f1cd.ru!
27 July 2010 Behold TV 501 – most available TV tuner from Beholder. Review of TV tuner Behold TV 501 on site Reviews.ru! "As a whole, Behold TV 501 leaves positive impression. Of course it couldn't be proud of presence of RDS decoder, hardware MPEG encoder and ARPC technology that allows to control the power functions of PC, but it is not required here. It's main benefit is that it has very attractive price, high quality and reach functionality that are inavailable not only low cost tuners of other manufacturers but even their top models." 9 July 2010 Behold TV Theme – the most compact TV box. Review of Behold TV Theme TV box on site Reviews.ru! "We already told many times, what purposes the standalone tuners are designed for, and how it may become invaluable addition to your old display, that you can't bring yourself to throw out, or to home projector, turning them to the full TV set, possibilities and quality of which may become an object of envy. That's why we won't make a long introductions and immediately proceed to the main – review of new Behold TV Theme, main features of which are compact case and very available price." 5 July 2010 Long expected TV tuners Behold TV H8 and A8 with PCI Express interface. Review on site Hwp.ru!
25 May 2010 Beholder Behold TV H8 and Behold TV A8 – Brothers in Tune. Review on site f1cd.ru!
13 May 2010 First test of PCI-E TV tuner BeholdTV H8 on site Reviews.ru! "After a year from releasing PCI TV tuner BeholdTV X7, in which Beholder for the first time implemented "silicone" RF-module and three new technologies, company advertises new generation of PCI-E TV tuners. We can't say that today the transfer to the PCI-E bus is vitally important. Especially if we are talking about classic analog and hybrid tuners, where usual PCI solutions may exist as long as our mainboards will have PCI bus. Nevertheless, there exist areas, where classic PCI bus become unsatisfactory. And the reason is not so in throughput capacity as in solutions that may not be designed using old component base. First of all we are talking about so-called mega-hybrid and multi-channel TV tuners. TV tuners making up the new product line don't belong to that interesting and expensive direction, but represent classic analog (BeholdTV A8) and hybrid (BeholdTV H8) TV tuners, capable to receive aerial analog and digital TV and radio broadcast. But this doesn't reduce their value in the product line of modern TV tuners. Just the opposite, due to combination of merits, peculiar to all previous series of BeholdTV tuners, and new capabilities, uncovering the potential of hardware, we can talk about that these TV tuners will easily eclipse all available today PCI-E tuner models." 28 April 2010 Beholder Behold TV H7 – review of hybrid PCI-tuner. Review on site f1cd.ru!
28 April 2010 TV tuner Beholder Behold TV H7 – cutting out all superfluous. Review of TV tuner BeholdTV H7 on site Hwp.ru! "TV tuner Behold TV H7, lite version of hybrid TV tuner Behold TV X7, that announced more than year ago. Behold TV X7 model itself became very popular exactly for those users who demands maximum functionality from PC. But in mass sector all capabilities of X7 are extraneous. Manufacturer decided in the following manner: no need to surpass himself if he can offer to buyer all that demanded in X7 but cheaper by excluding hardware MPEG encoder? Indeed, by removing the chip NEC D61151F1 from the board, Beholder company got noticeably cheaper tuner." 22 April 2010 First review of TV tuner BeholdTV H7 on site Reviews.ru! "In connection with release of operating system Windows 7 and beginning of translation of digital terrestrial broadcast, on the market of TV tuners take place a sudden changes. Instead of surprising us by their new models equipped by a kind of ultra-fashionable and unknown hardware solution, all leader players focused on more available and traditional models that allow to achieve the same result as more expensive models. Trying to conform to the spirit of the time, Beholder company announces its new model of hybrid TV tuner BeholdTV H7. This model belongs to the seventh series of Beholder tuners, which consisted before only of one, functionally advanced model, X7." 1 April 2010 On a survey «iXBT Brand 2009 – Readers' CHoice» in nomination «Manufacturer of TV tuners» Beholder company awarded silver medal!  12 January 2010 Pecularities of using Beholder TV tuners on Windows 7. Review on site Reviews.ru! "Today we are at the verge of launch of new operating system Microsoft Windows 7, which official release is planned on 22 October 2009. There is a lot of materials in the network, describing all new capabilities of new operating system in details, that's why we'll not repeat it and will talk about readiness of all parts of our computers, and, in particular, review pecularities of using Beholder TV tuners under control of "Seven"." 20 October 2009 Review of Beholder Behold TV Wander and Behold TV Voyage on site PcTuner.ru! "Company Beholder first of all known on Russian market as manufacturer of unique on their technical features tuners with PCI interface and software for them. Besides, there are TV boxes in the product line, that don't need to connect to PC. Weren't forgotten also mobile solutions, which until now were presented by only one model of Behold TV Columbus tuner with PCMCIA interface. However, due to gradual rejection of using this interface by notebook manufacturers in place of PCMCIA tuner model came more universal solution with USB2.0 interface." 20 October 2009 Behold TV Wander and Behold TV Voyage – long-awaited USB-tuners Beholder. Review on site f1cd.ru!
16 August 2009 Review of USB TV tuners Beholder BeholdTV Wander and Voyage on site Hwp.ru! "Universal solution, that with equal success may be used in desktop PCs, notebooks, compact nettops and in so popular in our country netbooks, where there are no other extention options as USB devices. At the same time, company launched at once two models – hybrid Wander and analog Voyage, both with FM-radio support. Let's take a closer look at them…" 20 August 2009 USB TV tuners BeholdTV Wander and Voyage: First look. Review on site Reviews.ru. "Beholder company, known as manufacturer of PC TV tuners, made a true present for its worshippers by releasing two new models at once, made in USB stick format. For us, however, as for many worshippers of Beholder TV tuners, this event has a great significance. With the release of new models the unique possibilities of Beholder tuners became available not only to owners of desktop PCs, but to happy owners of notebooks and especially fashionable today trend of netboxes and netbooks that can't use PCI, PCI-e or ExpressCard tuners. That's why compact USB tuner is the only way to view and record TV programs." 4 August 2009 Review of hybrid TV tuner BeholdTV X7 on site PcTuner.ru! "Beholder is not the company that uses standard solutions to achieve its goals. Due to innovative approach in developing and application to production of new unique technologies to this market segment, launch of every new TV tuner model become a true remarkable event. So this time besides main functions, that must have every modern PC TV tuner, developers presented to their customers new unique possibility to control antenna inputs, and also a set of other technical novelties that will be discussed below." 1 June 2009 TV tuner Behold TV X7 got "Best buy 2009" award in magazine Upgrade #18/2009.  20 May 2009 Behold TV X7 – Thow Heads, but One Heart. Review on site f1cd.ru. "We got latest tuner Behold TV X7 inour test laboratory. Notice that this is not just new tuner but representative of a new series, that inevitably promises some cardinal innovations and differencies from previous series. In addition, Beholder always thoroughly thinks the launch of every product over. In connection to this, new products appear not so frequently, but every tuner has a long lifetime before phasing out, and support by driver and software updates." 2 April 2009 Review of hybrid TV-tuner BeholdTV X7 with hardware MPEG encoder on site HardwarePortal.
2 April 2009 TV-tuner BeholdTV X7: First Test of New Facilities. Review on site Reviews.ru.
18 February 2009 Beholder TV tuners – What to Choose? Advices to Buyer. Article on site f1cd.ru. "Beholder – one of the most eminent brands on Russian market of TV tuners. For the several years of active and very fruitful work this company developed multitude of TV tuners and gained a very enviable reputation of stably reliable manufacturer, producing exceptionally high quality products. If you are already decided to join the ranks of users of Beholder products, but still don't know what to choose, this article will help you to make correct choice." 10 February 2009 New Beholder plugin: crawling line – efficiency is high! Review of new plugin on site Hwp.ru. "Not serious article about serious plugin from Beholder, due to which you may make every TV channel informational by adding crawling line composed from RSS feeds. Be up on the news when watching MTV, Sport or Culture, change boring broadcaster to more interesting movie or what you like. And get your information pool, without repeats, on any TV channel!" 20 January 2009 New possibilities of Beholder TV tuners. Review of new plugin on site Reviews.ru. "We told many times about Beholder plugin system that allows to realize multitude of useful and pleasant possibilities. Today we want to tell about new plugin "Crawling line". It was first mentioned long ago. It was planned to be used for translation of commercials to the network, nevertheless, to make it more interesting for wide range of users, developers decided not to restrict themselves just to out the text line and implemented the engine for work with RSS feeds, that opened almost unlimited possibilities for informational content of TV broadcast." 15 January 2009 As a result of poll «iXBT Brand 2008 – Readers' choice» in nomination «Manufacturer of TV tuners» Beholder company got a second place!  14 January 2009 Review of new TV tuner Behold TV SOLO II on site Reviews.ru.
5 December 2008 Review of new TV tuner Behold TV SOLO II on site HardwarePortal. "The following could be stated for sure – at high volatility on market, with uncertainty with DVB-T in Russia, TV tuner Behold TV Solo II remains the same attractive for money investment as before, assured return of 100% during the warranty period excuses even the excess of price for Intro slightly more than refinancing rate." 23 October 2008 Next test of Behold TV INTRO TV tuner on site Reviews.ru. "In order to make picture more attractive for perception, you need to use "Panoramic" mode, that ideally implemented in Behold TV INTRO, so why not to connect it between sattelite receiver, decoder or just an antenna, especially because the quality of receiving components of INTRO noticeably higher than that integrated in modern TV sets, and so to distinctly enhance possibilities of your TV." 19 June 2008 Review of TV tuner Behold TV INTRO on site HardwarePortal. "…this is "niche" model that will have the competetive price with a sufficient set of features, some of which are unique, as a main advantage. For example, unique feature for the Beholder tuners is the ability to ajust the picture for each channel individually, change the signal level and noise reduction, and now is a common for standalone tuners interface, that facilitates the TV channels setup and further firmware update." 19 June 2008 On site F1CD published review article on plugins for Beholder TV tuners – http://f1cd.ru/tuners/arts/behold_tv_plagins_page_1/. "Modern software must not only be functional but also as flexible and comfortable as possible. It is needed to note that each company tries to achieve this by their own way, but in this article we'll review very intriguing feature of Behold TV application (speciality of the house Beholder) – support of the plugin system, due to which one may enhance functionality of application literally for times." 30 May 2008 Review of TV tuner Behold TV H6 in "Chip" magazine, April, 2008. "Perhaps, for today Behold TV H6 is the most happy choice not only for that regions, where the broadcast is already moved to digital, but for the cities where you may only dream about DVB-T." 29 April 2008 Review of TV tuner Behold TV H6 on site 3DNews.ru "Qualitative and well thought-out component base, one of the most functional and convenient (amongst absolutely all TV tuner manufacturers in the world) application software and excellent receiving quality. By the way, device is equally good both for novice (due to thought-out presets) and for advanced user (numerous different settings and possibilities for improvements)." 14 February 2008 TV tuner Behold TV M6 Extra receives award "Our Choice" in magazine "Zhelezo", #2/2008.
11 February 2008 TV tuner Behold TV SOLO receives award "Original Design" in testing on site iXBT.com!
11 February 2008 Editorial stuff of "Home PC" magazine awards TV tuner Behold TV M6 Extra mark "HPC's advice" for "high technical perfection and absolutely righteous price".  23 January 2008 As a result of polling «iXBT Brand 2007 – Readers' choice» in nomination «Manufacturer of TV tuners» Beholder company got a second place!  14 January 2008 TV tuner Behold TV M6 Extra received award "HPC's advice" after testing by "Home PC" magazine (December, 2007). "Quality of recording with hardware compressing – very worthy, so that this tuner may be recommended for creation of digital video library… Behold TV M6 Extra – very good TV tuner with very qualitative reception of analog TV broadcast and FM-radio." 28 December 2007 Review of TV tuner Behold TV SOLO in "Upgrade" magazine, #49/2007. "…Quick view of TV on display (both in full-screen and in window) clearly demonstrated that quality of modern TV processors is high enough: for the sake of decency tried to find any drawback in picture, but, frankly speaking, failed." 12 December 2007 TV tuner Behold TV H6 got award "Excellent buy" on site HardwarePortal!
5 December 2007 TV tuner Behold TV SOLO got award "Unique Hardware" on site PcTuner.ru!
5 December 2007 On site Reviews.ru published review "First Test of Hybrid Tuner BeholdTV H6". "Excellent gift for all admirers of Beholder tuners, especially for those, who already have possibility to view digital aerial TV broadcast, became launch of long-awaited hybrid TV/FM-tuner BeholdTV H6. I've got information about start of development long enough, but, then it wasn't clear enough what will be in the result. The only thing I was sure, – this will be something interesting." 3 December 2007 Review of TV tuner Behold TV SOLO on site 3DNews.ru "Of course, Behold TV SOLO – is the most unusual standalone TV tuner from present on the market today. To its unique features it worth to attribute unusual but ergonomic design in retro style, presence of FM-radio on board, presence of video outputs along with inputs, and also possibility of upgrading firmware with full support by manufacturer over the Internet. But these are not the all merits of our today's hero. Qualitative soldering and well thought-out component base, sensitive reception and excellent quality of picture, perfect FM reception, comfortable customizable menu with fast responce, support of high resolutions and wide choice of output picture aspects, presence of Picture-On-Desktop mode." 15 November 2007 Review of TV tuner BeholdTV M6 Extra in "Upgrade" magazine, #24/2007. "…Power of modern processors is enough to compress video stream in real time, nevertheless on simultaneous launch of two or more tasks in background, system may fail: dropped frames and desynchronization of audio and video are warrantied. In our case the load will take 10-15% of resources, the rest of 85-90% use at your wish. That's why lovers of videocapture should suppress their greed: this tuner is not much more expensive than common ones, but the use will be obvious." 4 July 2007 Article on site HardwarePortal – "Third anniversary of Beholder: new plugins for a gift". "This year at the end of the May company Beholder celebrated third year of presence at the Russian market. We already told about progress and achievements of this company for the first two years of existence (see article "Beholder: The way two years long"), and now we have the next occasion to talk about how changes the Russian market of TV tuners, and what new prepared this, already became popular, manufacturer." 3 July 2007 On site Reviews.ru published review "Beholder: History continues…", dedicated to the activities of Beholder company, to characteristic features of its products and to the probable trends of development. "…There are several reasons of successful development of company. One of the most important, at our point of view, is in the ability to hear and to foresee the users' wishes. Due to this rare ability, company succeeded to create products that covers requirements of very different categories of users: from that who seeks the tuners with the optimal price/quality ratio to that looking for the most sophisticated tuner that supports modern trends." 26 June 2007 TV tuner Behold TV M6 Extra receives award "Our Choice" from "Zhelezo" magazine, #6/2007.
18 June 2007 Editorial stuff of "PC Magazine" (june, 2007) marked TV tuner Behold TV M6 Extra by certificate "Product that got the utmost experts' mark in laboratory tests".
18 June 2007 Review of TV tuner Behold TV M6 Extra on site Terralab. "TV tuner Behold TV M6 Extra may be related to the samples of the best built-in PC television receivers of the latest generation without any reservations. Excellent hardware base, also proven and comfortable software application give in sum excellent result – excellent quality of reception, picture and videocapture." 23 May 2007 Testing the work of TV tuners Beholder in operating system Windows Vista on site HardwarePortal. "All TV tuners Beholder, from the first Behold TV 403 to the last Behold TV M6, including Columbus, fully ready to the new operating systems Windows Vista, both 32-bit and 64-bit. So the owners of "beholders" may surely upgrade their systems to Windows Vista." 18 April 2007 Article "TV tuners Beholder: Pecularities in work under Windows Vista" on site Reviews.ru "Next time Beholder demonstrated extraordinary approach to the realization of new mechanisms, providing full compatibility with all possibilities of new operating system, that still hides many secrets and questions. Besides, it is good to see new functions and instruments, noticeably extending possibilities of both «software» and «hardware» tuners." 13 April 2007 Testing TV tuner Behold TV M6 Extra in "UPspecial" magazine (April, 2007). "…With excellent hardware rigging Behold TV M6 Extra has powerful software package, flexible and simple enough in setting up. Behold TV M6 Extra – uniquie tuner, without any doubts best in our testing." 11 April 2007 Review of TV tuner Behold TV M6 Extra in "Zhelezo" magazine (April, 2007). "…Tuner Behold TV M6 Extra revealed positive impression of its work. To its indisputable advantages may be refered the price, presence of very useful additional functions, such as recording and view with timeshift, and also advantages implied by its principles: very convenient to look football shown in a small window in a corner of the display and to chat in ICQ with friends using the free space of desktop." 10 April 2007 TV tuner BeholdTV SOLO got award "Excellent buy" on site HardwarePortal!
26 March 2007 Review of TV tuners BeholdTV M6 and BeholdTV M6 Extra on site 3DNews.ru "Behold TV M6 and Behold TV M6 Extra – is logical sequel to sixth series of TV tuners of this manufacturer. From previous models M6 and M6 Extra got very high functionality, excellent quality of hardware and software design and ease of control. But the main advantage of new models, of course, is possibility of hardware encoding – widest possibilities of compression settings, satisfying the requirements not only amateurs but also professionals, and also very high quality of obtained video!" 15 March 2007 Review of TV box BeholdTV SOLO on site Reviews.ru "Having considered main possibilities of new BeholdTV SOLO, we can surely state that this is the most advanced TV box that providesnot only excellent quality of picture and sound, allowing to treat it as a real alternative to the built-in tuners in modern panels, but having impressing functional facilities, noticeably extending possibility of using it both in composition with home PC and with home entertainment center." 7 March 2007 Review of TV tuner BeholdTV M6 on site PcTuner.ru "New model Behold TV M6 Extra demonstrated during tests excellent results, next time confirmed the status of Beholder company as one of the leaders of PCTV market. At that time most surprising became exploiting not very traditional architecture with little known hardware MPEG-2 encoder Philips SAA6752HS, due to which the new tuner remained very similar in functions to preceding models, but in connection with it, its capture possibilities became more professional. No one other TV tuner on market has such variety of hardware encoder settings, and that will definitely please those who wish to get maximum freedom of action." 15 February 2007 Testing the work of TV tuners BeholdTV M6 and BeholdTV M6 Extra in operating systems Microsoft Windows MCE and Vista on site Reviews.ru "Summing up, I'd like to ask, why to make a compromise when consider quality and functionality? Unusual achitecture, used in M6 tuners, turned to be more than just competent and balanced, offered for rather inexpensive sum the unique set of features, never seen in other tuners with hardware encoders, keeping at that time the reference high quality of picture and sound, and providing the most correct work with Media Center." 7 February 2007 TV tuner Behold TV 609 RDS got award "TV Tuner of the Year" in "Igromania" magazine (February, 2007). "The winner in our recent test of TV tuners became Behold TV 609 RDS. It excellently receives broadcasts in meter and decimeter wavelength ranges, you may see broadcasts both in window and full screen… So good also tuner receives radio." 24 January 2007 Our TV tuner BeholdTV M6 Extra got award "Internal TV Tuner of the Year" on site HardwarePortal!
10 January 2007 On results of traditional poll "Brand of the year", conducted by site iXBT.com, TV tuners Beholder got second place!
9 January 2007 Our TV tuners BeholdTV M6 and BeholdTV M6 Extra got award "Editors' choice" on site HardwarePortal!
25 December 2006 Review of TV tuner Behold TV 609 RDS in "Zhelezo" magazine (December, 2006). "…Localized TV program, comfortable scheduler, etc. – all this clearly demonstrates, that the success of device on market may be not only the result of the successful investigations in the area of hardware, but also the result of good software. Here one harmoniously supplements the other. As the result we have nothing else as to recommend this device to everyone without exceptions for those who thinks about buying or upgrading of TV tuner." 19 December 2006 Article "«PIP» mode realization in Beholder tuners" on site Reviews.ru! "…During using PIP mode it was interesting to check how increases the CPU load, which, to hear from manufacturer, sums up from the oad by plugin and driver. Plugin takes about 5% of CPU resources, and driver load may vary from 3-5 to 20%, and mostly depends on that how the driver is implemented. Minimal load was observed when using two Beholder tuners Beholder (about 10%). When using tuners based on Conexant chipset the load has increased for more than two times, and that is not surprising." 14 December 2006 Editorial staff of "Home PC" magazine (December, 2006) awarded TV tuner Behold TV 609 RDS by sign "HPC's advice" for "high technical perfection and absolutely righteous price".
13 December 2006 "First look at the BeholdTV M6 Extra" – review on site Reviews.ru! "…So what, possibilities demonstrated by Beholder impress, and we could only wait when this unique tuner will appear in shops and we'll be able check all demonstrated to us by developers and to share with you our own impression. By the way, it is interesting to check not only the work with the native application BeholdTV, but also the work of two tuners M6 on Windows MCE, where developers promise to please us by some uniquie features that for sure will be observed in next article." 27 November 2006 Testing the work of two Beholder tuners in PiP mode on site HardwarePortal! "…As already was stated in the beginning of article, we awaited "picture-in-picture" function for a long time, and at last it appeared in relatively available variant, especially for those who already have one or even two Beholder TV tuners. Once spent the whole day with two Beholder TV tuners we've made a simple conclusion – this is very interesting function." 24 November 2006 "Igromania" magazine (November, 2006) awarded TV tuner Behold TV 609 RDS by diploma "For high picture quality and well thought-out software application".
21 November 2006 TV tuner Behold TV 609 RDS received award "Original Design" in testing on site iXBT.com!
17 November 2006 Review of 5-th series of Beholder TV tuners on site Reviews.ru! "…Considering all these facts, we can make a interesting conclusion that fifth series got a completely new meaning, became a some kind of golden mean, equally interesting both for those who seeks inexpensive solution as a replacement for an old tuner, and for those who thinks that possibilities of sixth series are somewhat redundant. At that time, independent of their price all seven models presented on market today provide excellent picture quality, confirmation of which you may see above." 3 November 2006 Review of sixth series of Beholder TV tuners on site 3DNews.ru! "…Added features of cards sometimes even surprise, and ordering in new product line, new approach to the package and systematization of model names are very pleasant gift to the users. To be more specific, in new models payed much more attention to comfort and functionality of remote control – possibility to use foreign remote controls, turning PC on from remote control and so on. And this is the main salt of sixth series, which, we hope, manufacturer will continue to develop in future. Besides, new cards distinguish by more convenient and functional connection of external audio and video devices." 1 November 2006 Review of sixth series of BeholdTV tuners in "Upgrade" magazine, #42/2006. "…In general, tuners Behold, I think, best in their class. They ideally suit for those who for some reason is unable to look TV programs on common TV set. And for insatiable users, of course, too." 25 October 2006 TV tuner BeholdTV 507 RDS receives award "Best Buy" in "Zhelezo" magazine, #10/2006.
16 October 2006 Review of TV tuner BeholdTV 609 RDS on site PcTuner.Ru "…New TV-FM tuner from Beholder company during the tests demonstrated excellent results and leaved a multitude of positive emotions. As it was stated by manufacturer, Behold TV 609 RDS has excellent sound and picture quality, godd sensitivity of RF-module, providing stable reception of TV and FM channels, and, of course, has very functional application software, which is, no doubts, best in the market. 11 October 2006 Review of TV tuner BeholdTV 609 RDS in "Computer Bild" magazine, #15/2006. "…We hadn't any complaint to the quality of picture provided by BeholdTV 609 RDS. On receiving weak signals the sample on test noticeably excelled known analogs on picture and sound quality." 9 October 2006 Sixth series of Beholder TV tuners got one more award! This time is on site Reviews.ru!
1 October 2006 New, sixth series of Beholder TV tuners was awarded by medal "Excellent buy" on site HardwarePortal!
28 September 2006 Article "Beholder: The Way Two Years Long" on site HardwarePortal "…Two years ago, at the end of the May 2004, on Russian market of PC hardware happened an event that cannot be overestimated – the Beholder company entered the market with two TV tuner models. Now brand Beholder is known without overstating to hundreds of thousands of PC users, and the name itself is closely connected to TV tuners. Active strategy of Beholder company management led to that the TV tuners development epoch divided into two stages: "before Beholder" and after." 23 June 2006 To the birthday of Beholder company on the site Reviews.ru published the article "Beholder – Two Years After…", that reflects main milestones in two year history of company development – milestones that at our view have great importance both for us and for the whole industry of PC TV. We hope for futher fruitful cooperation and promise to please our worshippers by new, perfect products – for true experts in quality and reliability! "…Analysing main stages of development of Beholder for the past two years, it is difficult to foresee the next step of company, which for the whole period didn't make any serious mistake and offered for us exactly that products and solutions that were needed at the moment, and noticeably left behind its main competitors. We may say for sure that in future we'll see more than one extraodinary solution, which, probably, will be differently apprehended by public, but we are sure that this will be functional and high-quality product that has a great potentioal for the future…" 23 May 2006 We propose to look at the recording of broadcast "Matter of technique", that appeared today on TNT channel and telling about functions and peculiarities of Beholder TV tuners.  Download! 384x288, 3:15, 7.2 MB12 April 2006 On site Reviews.ru published article "Behold TV 505 RDS: Available TV tuner with RDS support". "…Three weeks of using Behold TV 505 RDS allowed for us to make an interesting conclusion that confirms an idea put to the base of new tuner, namely, it became obvious that in common conditions, when you don't need all unique possibilities of SAA7135 chipset, 505 model turned to be quite adequate and popular solution, that allows to get high picture quality for lower cost." 12 April 2006 Article "3D TV on PC – TV/FM-tuner BeholdTV 507 RDS" in "Upgrade" magazine, #10, March 2006. "…So what, the quality of tested by me "Beholder" is very very high. It was even capable, despite of efforts of local TV company, to catch three more channels than I payed for. As a bonus – 3D picture. Price? Reasonable. If you still don't have tuner, but you need it, you may easily buy BeholdTV 507 RDS." 15 March 2006 On site Reviews.ru published article "New possibilities of Beholder TV tuners: Stereo TV and new scheduer". "…So, it seems that company Beholder next time succeeded to surprise us by extraordinary approach to the development of software for its TV tuners. Whereas for other tuner manufacturers is normal just to release commonplace software, performing five main functions, Beholder continues to please us by new ideas and solutions, which, undoubtedly, deserve of all kinds of praise and respect." 13 February 2006 TV tuner Behold TV 507 RDS got award "Original Design" in testing on site iXBT.com!
6 February 2006 Review of plugin BPP_Anaglyph on site HardwarePortal "…Due to the efforts of Beholder company, already today everyone who wishes to view common broadcasts in 3D stereo may use PC with any of the Beholder tuner installed, to get three-dimensional TV from boring. This became possible due to the new software plugin, developed by Beholder's specialists, capable to convert flat picture to three-dimensional. We'll get know today, how and why it works." 2 February 2006 Review of TV tuner Behold TV 507 RDS on site F-Center. "This interesting model proved to have a lot of advantages, while didn't find any noticeable drawbacks. New Behold TV 507 RDS tuner was really capable to represent itself as most advanced model in series by demonstrating excellent receiving quality and the same functionality. Beholder tuners already for a long time became a serious competitors to the recognized grands of the market, and now it is the question who chases who. Evaluating very rich set of useful features, and also reasonable prise of the tuner, which is about $70, Behold TV 507 RDS may easily be recommended to buy. Especially for those who likes to listen to the radio, working at the PC." 26 January 2006 Site 3DNews.ru awards the TV tuner Behold TV 507 RDS by "Best Buy"!
23 January 2006 TV tuners Beholder were recognized by site Reviews.ru as best tuners of year 2005! "In year 2005 we thoroughly observed the changes occured in the market of TV tuners, where, at our point of view, occured a sudden rotation of brands, and for the first time the leadership was taken by company Beholder, that during the whole year didn't stop to surprise us by its new designs and ideas." 19 January 2006 As the results of year 2005 on site HardwarePortal in nominations "TV tuner for notebook" and "Internal TV tuner" unconditionally won models Behold TV Columbus and Behold TV 507 RDS respectively!  13 January 2006 Review of TV tuner Behold TV 507 RDS on site PcTuner.ru "…New BeholdTV 507 RDS turned out to be, undoubtedly, best PCI-tuner, launched by company at the end of the year 2005. Made on new, noticeably improved with the aim of noise resistance, PCB, it took all the best was in the other internal TV-FM tuners Beholder, and also got new interesting features and the remarkable function RDS, which will surely be estimated by those who like to listen to FM radio." 10 January 2006 As the result of poll «iXBT Brand 2005 – Readers' choice» in nomination «Manufacturer of TV tuners» company Beholder took honourable second place!  10 January 2006 |
"…Overall this model represents praiseworthy sample of device that allows not only to view digital television in DVB-T/T2/C standards but also analog TV. In addition it worth to mention that it allows to listen to the radio – both FM and DVB – and supports capturing from external analog video sources. Low profile bracket and presence of connectors for both internal and external connection of IR-sensor for remote control makes Beholder Behold TV T7 a good candidate for installation to HTPC or even to ordinary PC, where it will suit for analog capture."
"At the moment of writing this review the cost of Behold BeTAB 1042 was at the level of $360. Indeed, the user pays for good stuff (relatively powerful hardware, large accumulator capacity), and Retina display is for gift. Unbonnet in the presence of Beholder.
"At first glance Behold BeTAB 7004, with its assymmetric case and wide norder around display, seemed to me at least strange… Nevertheless, riding on the subway with it, I understood that exactly this design is most preferable…
"
In Russia retail price of Beholder Behold BeTAB 1041 is about $320. For this sum user gets high-quality tablet PC, that yield less to products of eminent brands. Perhaps, the only thing it lacks is built-in GPS-receiver, but this hardly may be called as drawback.
"Testing last year the more than one budgetary Android tablet, at e certain moment I cought myself thinking that if you are looking for inexpensive tablet, then you shouldn't dream about a good screen, stylish design and, of course, latest version of Android. Eventually I am resigned to the situation and decided that if I want the tablet with good IPS screen, as in Samsung or iPad, then I need to hoard money for Samsung or iPad. There is no other way.
"Behold BeTAB 1001 – very interesting tablet PC. In comparison with previous model it reveals not so quantitative as qualitative advance. BeTAB 1001 armed with excelect IPS screen with 10 points multitouch, 1GB RAM, two 2Mp cameras and remarkable case that may be used as a good support…
"For many years remaining stable, this nomination in the voting of last year has undergone some changes for the first time. And again, apparently for several years has found a point of stability.
"For the first time for the many years this most stable nomination of our poll underwent the changes. Of course, AverMedia as most promoted brand on Russian market of TV tuners kept the leadership. Didn't left the second position also Beholder, selling high-quality TV tuners under the brand Behold TV. But the bronze winner of the past years, company Pinnacle, left the top three and that's no surprise."
"For those who are looking for TV tuner for PCI-E bus, company Beholder prepared an excelent present launching two low cost PCI-E TV tuner models, that are named Behold TV H85 and A85. From the name you may conclude that these models belong to eighth generation of TV tuners. Behold TV H85 – is a hybrid model, combining together the possibility of receiving digital broadcast, analog TV and FM-radio broadcast. Behold TV A85 represents pure analog model with built-in FM-radio receiver."
"Twins. Said that they are so similar that only mother is capable to distinguish them. Beholder Behold TV H8 is hybrid TV tuner for PCI-E bus. Beholder Behold TV A8 is analog TV tuner for PCI-E bus. Sharp-sighted will find difference in their appearance, nevertheless they are similar like two peas in a pod. But if there difference from "inside"? Or all the trick is just another type of antenna connector? You'll not get it not trying it."
"As a result of testing the award "Editors' choice" receives Behold TV M6 Extra for maximal functionality, both in hardware and in software."
"…Saving individual settings for each channel, full support of wide-screen displays with several scaling modes, support of FM-radio, presence of transcoder of TV standards and possibility of firmware update in total allows to mark Behold TV SOLO by award of our site for original design."
"Standalone TV tuner Behold TV SOLO – is not just another model in product line of company. This novelty, no doubts, claims for something more. In spite of that there was some criticism during the review, new tuner favorably differs from other samples on the market. Along with reliable reception, qualitative picture, support of stereo sound, high resolution and different useful modes of work, tested model has a whole set of unique features. In essence, this is the nature of company Beholder that launches products that have especially ponderable competitiveness."
"…Very helpful is the hardware encoder that drastically reduces the CPU load. As in the previous model, it has possibility to turn on PC by remote control: it is sufficient to connect cable to the mainboard – all needed cables are included to the package."
"…Hardly with modern technologies inside the PC case it is possible to get more clear picture than that provided by M6 Extra. Channels switch without clicks and annoing blinks, feature set is excellent."
"This is the top of evolution of analog TV tuners. All that it was possible to create, all achievements of indistry presented by this model. And traditionally best quality."
"Beholder greatly strengthened its position for the last year and succeeded to force out Pinnacle from second place. On the results of poll of year 2006 19,2% of iXBT.com visitors orefer this brand on the market of TV tuners."
"…As before, we hadn't complaints about the quality of receiving TV and radio broadcasts – all available channels were found from the first trial, manual ajust if only required for those channels with very weak signal level… Summing up: Behold TV 609 RDS is a good product of high quality assembly, with rich functionality and package."
"…The receiving quality of this tuner is beyond praise, even weak signal it receives well. So, Behold TV 609 RDS – obvious favourite of our test… In hard receiving conditions not every tuner is capable to show clear image without noise. best of all this task was performed by analog tuner Behold TV 609 RDS."
"…at present Behold TV 609 RDS is the most functional PC TV tuner with PCI interface without support of hardware encoding and YUV-separation. So, RDS decoding, additional connector for IR sensor, PC power control and support of foreign remote controls allow us to mark this model by award for original design."
"…For those who seeks device with more favorable price, we recommend to pay attention to model Beholder BeholdTV 507 RDS – this device is perfectly equipped for its price, demonstrates good receiving quality, and plugin engine makes its possibilities almost unlimited."
"…The main competitor of Behold TV 507 RDS on Russian market is AVerTV Studio Model 507. At that the software from AVerMedia greatly yields to Behold TV application both in functionality, and in stability. Also the price difference is not to the favour of the Taiwanese grand. In short, for those who want to get the model with maximum functionality, but not ready to pay extra $20-30 for additional possibilities provided by hardware encoders, Behold TV 507 RDS may become a good choice."
"…On the picture quality Behold TV 507 RDS doesn't yield to the two tuners from AVerMedia examined above, and also wins on the channels where the signal is not strong enough. In particular the following situation was observed – on some channels on TV set was seen noticeable noise, while viewing on PC with Behold TV 507 RDS there wasn't any noise at all. It is the result of powerful application software with filters and high quality hardware."