in our testing, because it’s the latest, most readily-available version. SDTV and HDTV tuners: We started out with AVerMedia M780 combo SDTV/HDTV tuner cards (aka AVerTV Combo PCIe) but quickly learned that DHCAT wouldn’t recognize the HDTV tuner on those...

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SDTV tuners, in either PVR-150MCE single or PVR-500MCE dual tuner configurations; we used the AverMedia AVerTVHD MCE A180 single-tuner HDTV tuner card. We do, however, wish we'd had the new AverMedia M780 AverTV Combo card, which combines an HDTV and an SDTV...

television, or SDTV) ports up to our local Time-Warner feed, and used an external antenna to feed the ATSC (high-definition digital television) ports where applicable. Older media PCs often include two tuner cards, one for SDTV and another for ATSC. Newer media...

were preparing to post this article, HDTV guru Matt Wright told us about the AVerMedia AverTV M780 Combo unit. The most exciting thing about it is that it's a PCIe 1x card (finally, something to do with those slots) that includes both an SDTV and an HDTV tuner...

Introduction, Continued. avermedia combo tv card brings analog and digital together. With the age of all-digital TV only a couple of years in the offing, analog-only TV gear is becoming obsolete.. You don't really get a sense of how far the technology has...

OTA HDTV and SDTV Tuner Cards. diy hd htpc extravaganza part3. In our final installment, Siggy surveys quiet graphics cards, TV tuner cards and products for multimedia control and display. And we finally show the details of both our test builds.. Our...

room for expansion cards, plenty of USB options are available as well both for SDTV and HDTV. We used a Hauppauge WinTV-PVR-500MCE dual-tuner SDTV card and an Avermedia AVerTVHD card (now replaced by the AVerTVHD MCE A180) in our builds. A wireless keyboard,...

The level of visual detail is noticeably higher, as are sharpness and contrast. Even the color saturation can wow viewers used to SDTV (despite colorspace compression). Hard-core videomakers can even create their own ambience using the camera's manual settings....

in another $100 or so for SODIMM memory, $100 plus for a small, fast, quiet hard disk, $40 for a wireless keyboard/pointing device, $35 for an MCE remote, $40 for an SDTV tuner, $100 for an OEM license for Windows XP MCE 2005, and $30-50 for other miscellany,...