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Manufacturer: AVERMEDIA
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Binding: Electronics
Brand: AverMedia
EAN: 0795522960580
Feature: Watch Live TV, Record, Pause, Rewind, Playback HD and Analog TV on your PC with Windows XP, XP Media Center Edition 2005 or Windows Vista (32 and 64 bit driver support)
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Label: AVERMEDIA
Manufacturer: AVERMEDIA
Model: MTVCBPCIW
Publisher: AVERMEDIA
Studio: AVERMEDIA
Warranty: 1 year warranty
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Watch Live TV, Record, Pause, Rewind, Playback HD and Analog TV on your PC with Windows XP, XP Media Center Edition 2005 or Windows Vista (32 and 64 bit driver support)
Watch one Analog or HD channel and record another, or record two different channels while watching a previously recorded program simulteneuosly
Uses Windows XP Media Center 2005, Vista Home Premium / Vista Ultimate, or AVer MediaCenter TV Recording Scheduler and Electronic Programming Guide
World Wide Analog TV Tuner
Hardware encoded with Advanced 3D Comb Filter with Ghost Reduction
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The AVerTVHD Combo PCDI Express is a combination World Wide Analog and High-Definition TV receiver module. Easily watch analog or over-the-air HDTV or Unencrypted QAM in MPEG-2 video your PC. It can be used to record Tv programs in high quality original MPEG-2 format, straight to the hard disk. Pciture-in-Picture allows users to watch analog TV and HDTV simultaneously.
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Summary: Excellent Media Center tuner
Comment: I have two of these in a Windows Media Center (Vista). They work flawlessly. They seem as good as the ATI/AMD 650-based cards, and a little cheaper (but no remote in the package). As for the QAM comment another reviewer made, I have not tested the vendor's application for QAM and Media Center does not support QAM, so for a QAM test I will have to wait until I can get a legal copy of "Fiji" aka "Windows Vista Media Center TV Pack 2008". Unfortunately, Microsoft seems intent on making this impossible. Please Microsoft, let us Media Center enthusiasts get hold of this update so we can see unencrypted digital cable content!
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Summary: AverTV combo is excellent for the knowledgeable user
Comment: This product really delivers. Especially when you consider the price. Great picture, easy install and it was instantly recognized by SageTV and Beyond TV. There may be only one draw back; It is a white box unit and I do not believe it would be a good product for someone with little computer upgrade experience. It does not come with drivers, manuals, or literature of any kind. But, there was never a claim that it would. I highly recommend this product to anyone who wants great performance at little cost but has the skills to deal with the install and configuration.
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Summary: Great for analog cable and digital broadcast
Comment: I am using this for digital HD local broadcasts and analog cable signal. Windows Vista media center gets both in the same channel line-up. Great tuner!
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Summary: Solid choice for an HTPC
Comment: This product replaces a Hauppaugge PVR-150 in my HTPC. The quality on analog signals is significantly better, and adds the ability to receive digital signals. You can use both tuners at the same time via picture-in-picture, or watch one tuner while recording on the other.
The analog tuner (NTSC) has input for coax or S-Video. If you use s-video, the audio is received by an adapter that plugs into a mini-jack just below it.
The digital tuner is for receiving ATSC (OTA) or QAM (cable) signals. It only has a coax input. If you go for OTA ATSC of course you are subject to reception issues just like any other antenna. Since it's digital, it really either works or it doesn't. If your signal is strong enough you get a clear, beautiful picture. If it's not strong enough, you get squat, or even worse a freezing stuttering picture. I live in the suburbs and the antenna is in the basement and I get most channels at 70-80% signal, but this is a entirely dependent on your antenna and not this tuner.
This card also supports unencrypted clear QAM. Cable companies are supposed to (and I think most if not all do) send local digital channels on their basic service. So you should be able to watch your local channels, but not premium channels like HBO since those would be encrypted. Vista Media Center (and I think MCE2005 as well) do NOT support QAM directly. The included AverMedia software receives these with no problem, and Avermedia has a beta plugin that enables it in Vista Media Center (google "clear qam in vista media center" and its one of the first few that come up). However, there are other options such as MediaPortal (for windows, this is what I use) or MythTV (for linux, I don't use this but have heard awesome things about it) which are both open source (i.e. free) alternatives and support clear QAM.
If you are set on using Windows Media Center another alternative is the HD HomeRun, an external unit that also supports QAM and does show up in Media Center.
Other notes about this card, it is PCI-e and not PCI. All recent motherboards have more and more PCI-e slots (less and less PCI), but there isn't much to fill them with... Well, here is one. The tuners on this card are physically *tiny*, especially compared to the hauppaugge pvr-150 which has a huge NTSC tuner. All encoding is done by the card, so it puts very little strain on your CPU (watching HD content is another story).
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Summary: Great Card !!!!
Comment: I will try to make this review as useful as possible. I currently just built a media pc for the living room using Windows Vista Ult. X64 and installed the card, downloaded the beta drivers from the avermedia media ftp site (search the green button forum) and Vista Media Center saw the card and within a few mins I was watching analog cable and HD OTA. The HD OTA quality looks just as good if not better than before I installed the card. The analog picture quality is pretty good considering its being upscaled to 720p via my video card and being MPEG2 encoded. I haven't had the chance to test the QAM function in this card as of yet. I have had the chance to record both HD and analog content and they both look great, the HD is amazing. Channel change speed is actually faster than my Westinghouse 37" LCD and takes about a second. Now regarding the issue of the card running hot (which I was concerned about too given some of the reviews.) Its appears to be just fine. Also you have to remember they are using a high quality NEC chip to encoder the analog to MPEG2, so that is the source of the heat. I may or may not buy a small heat sink and fan to cool it. I plan to use my media PC for everthing (TV, PVR, Blu-Ray, etc.) I have been running the card non stop for a few hours now with a mixure
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