14 DAY TRIAL // AVerMedia Technologies Inc. is well known for its products and relative experience in the computer multimedia domain, and now has another hot product for the public. They've just released a new TV Tuner for use on a PC, nothing surprising so far you would say, just another AVerMedia TV Tuner. Well, not exactly, this model, the AVerTV Combo PCIe is only suitable for desktop computers, having separate Analog and ATSC (a new standard deems to replace NTSC)/QAM (quadrature amplitude modulation) tuners on the same card.
The input signal on the card is on 75Ohm for both digital and analog antennas, accompanied by an S-Video and Audio In jack. With this card, you can watch ATSC TV both Over-the-Air and through a standard coaxial cable for Unencrypted Digital Cable content. As a proof of reliability, the tuner is certified for Windows XP, XP Media Center Edition 2005 and Windows Vista Premium Certified 32/64bit.
The analog tuner features advanced 3D Y/C Comb Filter with Ghost Reduction, hardware compression, and uses as an interface the PCI Express x1 slot. Now when it comes to hardware requirements, the situation changes a little bit, the card is somewhat of a power eater, so unless your system doesn't meet its demands, you probably won't get the same signal quality; that is if your application even starts.
It's necessary for the desktop users to have a system with an Intel Pentium 4 processor at 2.8Ghz with Hyper Threading or equivalent AMD processor or higher. For dual tuner recording, you need an Intel Pentium 4 at 3GHz or equivalent AMD processor or higher. And it's also worth mentioning that the package doesn't include a PVR application.