Shuttle shows Off Complete Mini PC with DVB-S tuner

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Shuttle is better known for its full line of small form factor barebones computers that require the buyer to add additional hardware to complete the computer. However, the company has announced a new complete SFF computer called the H7 4500H today.

The machine features Windows Vista and has an integrated DVB-S TV tuner card that allows time shifting of TV programs and offers an electronic program guide along with recording functions. Connectivity options on the system include HDMI, SPDIF, eSATA, FireWire, and six USB ports. Read more

Posted on Mon, 30 Mar 2009 11:00:00 CDT | by Shane McGlaun

Pinnacle HD Stick USB HDTV Tuner

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Pinnacle has announced a new USB HDTV tuner stick for the PC. The device is about the size of a flash drive and is called the Pinnacle PCTV HD Stick and a HD Pro Stick is available as well. Both devices can support HD resolutions up to 1080i and only require connection to a USB port.

The tuners utilize ClearQAM tuners to OTA HD programs. Both sticks are compatible with Windows Vista and XP MCE. The small tuners are ideal for users looking for mobile TV viewing. The HD Pro stick adds the ability to view current analog programs, has a FM tuner and can receive signals from a cable or satellite box and camcorders. The HD Stick sells for $69.99 and the HD Stick Pro sells for $99.99. Read more

Posted on Thu, 26 Jun 2008 13:00:00 CDT | by Shane McGlaun

PC-TV Tuner Market Worth $1.7 Billion by 2012

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PC-TV tuners aren’t that popular here in the U.S., at least not nearly to the extent of the popularity they enjoy in Europe and Asia. According to Research and Markets the market for PC-TV tuners is quickly moving from analog to digital, which makes sense.

The company says that in 2005 60.1% of PC-TV tuners shipped were analog. In 2006 that percentage dropped to 48.3% and in 2007 the percentage of analog tuners shipped was 39.7%. The drop coincides with the time frame for the expansion of digital broadcasts in Europe, Korea and Japan. Read more

Posted on Wed, 25 Jun 2008 06:52:57 CDT | by Shane McGlaun

AutumnWave OnAir USB HDTV-GT Tuner Review

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Tweaktown published a review of the AutumnWave OnAir USB HDTV-GT Tuner.

Quote from the review: "There are quite a few products available nowadays that allow you to display and capture over-the-air High Definition television content to your home computer or laptop. While the number of choices are plentiful, most of them are designed for those outside the confines of the United States. The reason for this is simple; the US tends to lag far behind other parts of the world when it comes to transmitting high-def signals over the air. Read more

Posted on Thu, 10 Apr 2008 20:00:00 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

AVerMedia Launches AVerTV Hybrid Volar MAX USB Tuner

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AVerMedia was showing off a new hybrid TV tuner at CES 2008 back in January that connects to a PC via USB. The USB stick is called the AVerTV Hybrid Volar MAX and can receive HDTV, Analog TV, and FM radio on Windows XP or Vista.

Included software allows users to record unencrypted Clear QAM digital cable TV. The device can also save recorded programs in 320x240 format for playback on an iPod, the device is also designed for HD with 720p/1080i resolution. Read more

Posted on Mon, 31 Mar 2008 10:58:57 CDT | by Shane McGlaun

NXP Announces World's First Ultra-low Power TV Tuner

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NXP launched the world’s first ultra-low power terrestrial and satellite multi-band silicon tuner today aimed at portable TV use. The tuner is able to support five global TV standards for portable devices including DVB-T, DVB-H, DVB-SH, T-DMB, ISDB-T and five prominent frequency bands VHF, UHF, L1, L2, S-band.

"NXP's new silicon tuner is a significant achievement in driving anytime, anywhere availability of TV," said Philip Sun, Executive Vice President, Afa Technologies. "Afa is taking advantage of our collaboration with NXP to deliver low-power and high-performance TV solutions for portable and handheld devices." Afa Technologies will integrate the TDA18292 silicon tuner with new AF9100 multi-standard demodulator series, building on its successful collaboration with NXP. Read more

Posted on Wed, 23 Jan 2008 11:48:55 CST | by Shane McGlaun

CES 2008: Castrol Top Tuner Super Saturn Sky

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At the CES there is also a whole Car audio and media equipment show going on. Shane brings you photos of the totally pimped-out Saturn Sky.

This Saturn Sky has boxes everywhere and lots of other amazing tunings built-in. It still looks good too. Read more

Posted on Sat, 12 Jan 2008 04:00:00 CST | by Luigi Lugmayr

Polk Audio Introduces a Sirius Satellite Radio Component Tuner for Home Use

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Satellite radio fans looking to listen to Sirius Radio in their homes will appreciate the new product that Polk Audio announced today called the Sirius Satellite Radio Component Home Tuner.

The tuner is sized to fit into your component rack with your home theater or stereo gear and is called the SR-H1000. The tuner will sell for $349.95 and if you add the optional Home Connect Tuner SC-H1 the SR-H1000 can be used as a two audio stream/zone tuner that can receiver different Sirius programming at one time. Read more

Posted on Thu, 6 Sep 2007 13:29:41 CDT | by Shane McGlaun

GIGABYTE GT-U8000-RH digital TV Tuner Review

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Tweak Town reviews the GIGABYTE GT-U8000-RH digital TV Tuner, which connects via USB to your computer.

Quote from the review: "This is a Hybrid tuner, which means that it can tune in both analogue and digital DVB-T TV programs. GIGABYTE also has a digital only version, the U7000, which is a physically smaller model. Both models are based on a Dibcom chipset and if this doesn’t say anything to you, then what you should know is that this is one of the best DVB-T chipsets on the market for PC applications. Read more

Posted on Mon, 13 Aug 2007 07:00:00 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

AVerMedia Launches New TV Tuner Express Card

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AVerMedia announced today that they were launching the AVerTV Hybrid ExpressCard High Definition and Analog ExpressCard TV Tuner for laptops. The AVerTV Hybrid ExpressCard is used in a laptops Express Card slot and has a hybrid world-wide analog and ATSC tuner and is certified for Windows XP, MCE and Vista Premium.

The card is a 54mm Express Card combining both ATSC and analog into one tuner. The device allows you to watch and record shows in both HD and analog and has onboard hardware compression to reduce CPU workload. Read more

Posted on Wed, 1 Aug 2007 16:00:00 CDT | by Shane McGlaun

I4U Top Stories of the Week: Potter, DMB Phones, PSP TV Tuner

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This week brought a mix of technology news without major highlights. The last Harry Potter book raised the most attention. Mostly of course because of the photo leak, the early NY Times review and now the possibility that they can catch the photo leaker because he used a Canon Rebel and the serial number is in the meta data of the photos.

More top stories on I4U NEWS from last week below: Read more

Posted on Sun, 22 Jul 2007 02:00:00 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

Japan gets slim Sony PSP in 6 Colors and Digital TV Tuner for PSP

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Sony announces in Japan also the new slimmer Sony PSP, but has some additional treats in store for their Japanese gaming fan community.

The slim Sony PSP will be available in six colors. The U.S. and Europe will only see three colors.
Additionally Sony announces a digital TV receiver accessory for the Sony PSP. The 'Wansegu' receiver allows Japanese Sony PSP users to watch TV on the go - pretty nice. Read more

Posted on Tue, 17 Jul 2007 07:42:05 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

World's smallest digital TV Tuner by Sharp

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Sharp developed the world's smallest digital TV tuner. The small module works with Japanese Seg-1 terrestrial digital broadcast (Wansegu).

The Sharp TV tuner module measures only 7.3×7.3×1.25mm. This is small enough that Scalar could integrate it right away into their ultra-lightweight Head mounted displays. Read more

Posted on Wed, 13 Jun 2007 03:00:00 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

I-O Data Vista Approved TV Tuners

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If you are the media center type looking to jump on the vista bandwagon in the next few months I-O Data has the first Vista approved TV tuners. You can get internal PCI versions as well as external versions aimed at laptop users.

Internally both of the versions are the same with the exception that the internal PCI version sports a coaxial input. Other specs are S-video and composite inputs, 10-bit DACs and noise reduction capabilities. Channel tuning and PVR capabilities are a given. Read more

Posted on Thu, 28 Dec 2006 12:00:00 CST | by Shane McGlaun

Samsung LN-S3292D 32 inch HDTV LCD with ATSC Tuner

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The Samsung LN-S3292D 32 inch HDTV with integrated ATSC Tuner is still the best selling 32 inch TV on sell it for even less. (lowest offer currently at $1,005). Read more