Thursday, September 8, 2005
AVerMedia Announces the Release of the AVerTV Cardbus MCE PCMCIA TV Tuner
Posted by Jeremy Charette in "HARDWARE" @ 01:00 PM
"AVerMedia Technologies, Inc., the leading provider of digital multimedia and presentation technology announced today the release of the AVerTV Cardbus MCE, a Windows Media Center Edition 2005 certified PCMCIA TV tuner. This highly portable TV tuner allows users to take full advantage their MCE 2005 laptop's TV and video capability without the need to install internal tuner cards. Featuring hardware MPEG2 compression, the AVerTV Cardbus MCE allows users to easily watch, pause, rewind, playback and record live TV through their MCE 2005 operating system on their laptop. The unit simply inserts into a laptop PCMCIA slot and connects to either a coaxial cable or free air antenna. Users can also take advantage of the MCE 2005 recording scheduler to pre-set recording of their favorite shows. Furthermore, the AVerTV Cardbus MCE features image and video capture capability as well as the standard MCE 2005 closed caption and parental control capabilities."
If you have a laptop with MCE 2005, and no TV Tuner built in, this could be the solution for you. It's certainly alot less bulky than the external USB TV tuners you'd have to use now. AverMedia has a history of making high quality TV tuners for use in PC PVRs, and the Microsoft stamp of approval shows it. I'd love to see an Over The Air HDTV tuner card for laptops, but that may be a ways off still.
If you have a laptop with MCE 2005, and no TV Tuner built in, this could be the solution for you. It's certainly alot less bulky than the external USB TV tuners you'd have to use now. AverMedia has a history of making high quality TV tuners for use in PC PVRs, and the Microsoft stamp of approval shows it. I'd love to see an Over The Air HDTV tuner card for laptops, but that may be a ways off still.
