Digital Home Thoughts: Nvidia Releases Dual-Tuner DVR, Where's The HD?

"With its unique two-tuner technology, the NVIDIA DualTV tuner transforms an MCE-equipped PC into a bona fide home entertainment system. With a touch of a mouse button, users can schedule recordings of their favorite TV shows and watch them when they want, record two TV shows simultaneously, or watch one channel while recording another, as well as watch pause, and rewind live or recorded TV shows. With the emergence of portable media players and ubiquitous broadband availability, NVIDIA DualTV users can watch their programs from almost anywhere—in the home, on the go, or over the Internet. Programs recorded with the NVIDIA DualTV tuner can be transferred to personal media players and portable game players that play back video, and many other portable media players. Live or recorded shows can be streamed throughout the home to game consoles or Media Center Extenders; and with Orb Networks software (www.orb.com), NVIDIA DualTV tuner users can watch live or recorded TV shows from anywhere in the world over the Internet for personal use. "



Taking press releases with a grain of salt, this still looks like a pretty cool product. Having two tuners is great, and really helps to diffuse any domestic arguments over what show to watch/record, and I like the whole “watch it on your PMP aspect, but I just don’t understand why people are making video recorders that are not HD compatible. I mean, come on! You are obviously marketing towards video guys (ordinary folks are not buying these kinds of products, they are using their cable box or a Tivo) so don’t you think these people are looking for High Def? Standard Def TV looks like ass on a computer monitor.