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ATI All-In-Wonder X1800 XL Review

Tuesday, November 22nd, 2005

ATI’s back with a new all-in-wonder card and Firing Squad’s got a great review.

Hauppauge Unveils Satellite TV Tuner

Monday, November 21st, 2005

Hauppauge Digital has released a new add-on card to convert a PC into a satellite TV receiver.
Available immediately, the WinTV Nova-s receives free satellite channels, and will work with UK Freesat service initially.
More at Media Centre PC World. It would be interesting to know whether it would work with other free to air satelitte services […]

Hauppauge Adds Two Media Center Upgrade Packages to Range

Thursday, November 17th, 2005

Hauppauge Digital has released two new upgrade packages for Windows Media Center Edition 2005 (MCE) into the UK market. The new MCE packages include a TV tuner and a Media Center remote control, providing everything required to add TV capabilities to a Media Center PC.
The two Hauppauge WinTV packages are the PVR-150MCE, an analogue terrestrial […]

Hauppauge Unveils WinTV-HVR Series

Friday, November 4th, 2005

Hauppauge Digital has announced debut of its WinTV-HVR series of Hybrid Video Recorder (HVR) products for sale throughout Europe. WinTV-HVR’s give PC users the flexibility of watching and recording either DVB-T digital or traditional analogue TV on their PCs. Previous Hauppauge products such as the WinTV-NOVA and WinTV-PVR could support either DVB-T digital or analogue […]

Hauppauge’s Eskape Labs Releases myTV.PVR, a Personal Video Recorder for Macintosh

Friday, October 21st, 2005

Eskape Labs, a division of Hauppauge Digital Inc., have announced the release of myTV.PVR, the company’s first combination TV tuner with built-in MPEG encoder designed for Macintosh computers. With myTV.PVR, Mac users can watch live TV on their screen, plus pause and record their favorite TV programs any time they want, on notebook or desktop […]

AverMedia AverTV Hybrid+FM Cardbus review

Tuesday, October 11th, 2005

Media Centre PC World has a good review on the AverMedia AverTV Hybrid+FM Cardbus

Hauppauge Releases XP Media Center Twin Tuner TV Bundle

Monday, September 19th, 2005

According to Media Centre PC World, Hauppauge Digital has released a twin tuner upgrade package for Windows Media Center 2005.
The Hauppauge WinTV-PVR-500MCE bundle includes two TV tuners on a single PCI card, a Media Center remote control and two “IR blasters” to control external equipment such as satellite receivers.
About time too! If someone is after […]

Pinnacle Micro named Hauppauge TV card distributor in South Africa

Thursday, September 8th, 2005

Pinnacle Micro has been named the exclusive local distributor of Hauppauge TV cards in South Africa.
The deal delivered immediate availability of two Hauppauge cards, the WinTV-PVR-150 and the WinTV-PVR-350 cards into the South African Market.
(via ICT World)

PLX, ViXS Develop USB 2.0 Dual PC-TV Tuner Reference Design

Wednesday, August 24th, 2005

ViXS have announced a partnership with PLX to develop the world’s first dual-stream, USB-connected PC-TV tuner card reference design.
According to Media Center PC World, the reference design will enable manufacturers to develop standalone products for consumers to easily convert desktop PCs or laptop PCs into multimedia PCs without the inconvenience of installing an aftermarket PC-TV […]

Avermedia Announces New Windows MCE 2005 Dual Driver

Wednesday, August 17th, 2005

AVerMedia Technologies, Inc., has announced the release of its Dual Tuner driver for the AVerTV HD MCE A180 Hi-Definition TV Tuner and Windows XP standard certified A180
Hi-Definition solution.
The AverTV HD MCE A180 is a certified PCI ATSC (Free-to-air) Hi-Definition TV Tuner card. The new MCE certified driver will allow MCE 2005 users to watch […]