are based largely on the HD MPEG2 file format. Figure 18: ATI HDTV Wonder HD tuner The SD dual tuner is a Hauppauge WinTV PVR500 MCE (Figure 19), which is a fantastic hardware-based standard definition TV tuner that is capable of recording two programs at...

CPU AMD Athlon 64 3700+ Motherboard Gigabyte GA-K8NF-9 Memory 2x 512 MB Corsair PC3200 (1024 MB) HDD Western Digital WD1600 160 GB Standard Definition Tuner Hauppauge WinTV-PVR 500 PCI (dual tuner) High Definition Tuner ATI HDTV Wonder Graphics...

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testing, because it's the latest, most readily available version. SDTV and HDTV tuners: We used single or dual tuner Hauppauge SDTV tuners, in either PVR-150MCE single or PVR-500MCE dual tuner configurations; we used the AverMedia AVerTVHD MCE A180 single-tuner...

PCI slot on the motherboard. This lets one or two PCI cards align in parallel to the motherboard, while maintaining a very low profile. Because I ordered a dual tuner Hauppauge WinTV-PVR-500 MCE TV capture card, as well as a Radeon 9600XT graphics card, they...

it's a free remote, so who's complaining? The Hauppauge WinTV PVR-150 The Hauppauge tuner card is a great hardware-based single SD NTSC tuner. It has an FM radio and is one of the first TV tuners to be approved for use with Windows Media Center 2005. It is...

Hauppauge capsule fits nearly three sets of both M780 capsules; in thickness, it's almost six to one! Just from the standpoint of waste heat, anybody who's worked around the Hauppauge cards knows how many calories they can crank out when the tuners are active....

MX400 Sound SoundMAX Integrated Audio (AC '97) Display 20" viewable CRT; 32 bit color; 1152x864; .21 mm dot pitch; 100 Hz refresh rate OS Microsoft Windows XP Professional Service Pack 1 TV tuner card Hauppauge! WinTV MPEG-2 encoder card Hauppauge!...

I knew that I would never use a software tuner again. The motherboard I selected had three PCI slots. Since I wanted two standard definition TV tuners, an HDTV tuner and a sound card, I decided to go with Hauppauge's WinTV PVR 500 MCE dual tuner. Both tuners...

for either Pentium P4 or Athlon 64 processors are available, and this PC includes a 200 GB 3.5" Seagate Barracuda drive as a base option (300 and 400 GB drives are also available). A single tuner/FM radio Hauppauge card is the base TV option, but a dual-tuner...