AVerTV Combo PCI-e Tuner Card Review

Reviewed Spring, 2008
Revised Fall, 2010

PROS

• Runs with own software, Windows Media Center, and other 3rd party applications
• Tunes HDTV/Digital (currently OTA only) and Analog (OTA or cable)
• Works with clearQAM (digital cable) under Windows 7 Media Center
• Analog tuner has hardware encoding, which saves CPU processor overhead
• Works as the only tuner in MCE 2005 (1 analog, 1 digital)
• A low profile card, with bracket included
• Record one analog and one digital program at the same time
• Good at tuning weak and multipath over the air signals
• Digital tuner is cable QAM capable
• Vista and Win 7 certified drivers

• No remote or TV antenna

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• This PCI-e HD tuner is a combo tuner, one tuner is dedicated to only analog and the other is dedicated digital.

  This is a great tuner for MCE 2005 as it meets the analog tuner requirement and also tunes digital over the air signals. The analog quality is excellent as you would expect from a hardware encoder card, and in fact it is better than the hardware encoding Hauppauge PVR-150, a standard for analog MCE tuners.

  This card works great with Vista and Windows 7 Media Center as well as well as the XP version MCE 2005.

• CPU: Intel® Pentium® IV 2.8GHz, (Hyper-Threading) or Equivalent AMD Processor or Higher
• Intel Centrino Mobile 1.6GHz
• Operating System: Windows® XP / XP MCE 2005 / Windows Vista (x86 or x64 bit)
• Interface: One Free PCI-Express x1 slot
• Sound Card & Speakers
• VGA Card Supporting DirectX 9.0c or Above
• Certified MCE 2005 DVD Decoder

• Intel Pentium 4 3.0GHz (Hyber-Threading) or Equivalent AMD Processor
• Intel Centrino Mobile 2.0GHz
• 512MB RAM or Above

• VGA Card Supporting DirectX 9.0c and DxVA (HDTV)
• HDTV Will Only Function when the TV Signal is in HDTV Format

• AVerMedia AVerTV Combo PCIe TV Tuner Card
• Quick Installation Guide
• AVerMedia Warranty Card
• L/R Audio Cable
• S-Video to Composite Adaptor
• Low Profile Bracket (optional)

SOFTWARE DOWNLOAD SITE: http://www.aver.com/mpd/support/download/combopcie.html

For more information on AVerMedia products go to http://www.aver.com/multimedia.html