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AVerMedia Delivers New TV Tuners

Among the products being shown at Microsoft Corp.'s Digital Entertainment Anywhere Launch are the Seattle (A169), M180, A180, E502, M105, M033, M150, M113, M17D, M155 and A16A TV-Tuner cards.

The Seattle dual NTSC TV-Tuner card is a high performance tuner card, which was designed specifically to meet the next generation TV-tuner specifications designed for Microsoft Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005.

The a169 Seattle card offers consumers the ability to take advantage of the Media Center Edition's capabilities by simultaneously watching one show while recording another. The built-in 3D comb filter delivers to consumers a clean, crisp picture quality. With dual TV-Tuners designed onboard, OEMs only need one PCI slot to function two TV tuners, which reduces their overall hardware costs and provides them with more flexibility for system expansion.

The AVerMedia M180 PCI based TV-Tuner was designed specifically to meet the high picture quality requirements of next generation Entertainment PC systems that represent the type of quality users will find in high-end televisions.

Existing system integrators can use the NTSC (Analog) TV tuner in the PC, by simply adding another A180 HD-ATSC TV Tuner or A16A DVB-T_TV Tuner allowing the users to experience the newest features in Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005. Besides providing the best picture quality possible with the High-Definition TV Tuner, the A180 HD-ATSC TV Tuner and A16A DVB-T TV Tuner enable anyone to "future-proof" the system, which makes it the ideal tuner card for the Entertainment PC.

The E502 CardBus TV Tuner Card is a Media Center Edition-compliant CardBus TV tuner card. Users can simply plug the card into their notebook systems running the Media Center Edition operating system to enjoy the selected TV program. The M105 mini-PCI TV Tuner Card is a mini-PCI TV tuner card which is a more integrated solution for the notebook platform. The M033 USB TV Tuner Box is more flexible to system integrators since it can be another solution for the Media Center Edition-based notebook, as well as a desktop.

The M150, M113, M17D and M155 are pure analog PCI TV tuner cards w/o 3D Y/C comb filter, however they could also be used as your TV tuner card choice for mainstream levels of our Media Center Edition-based platform. The AVerMedia MCE 1500 TV tuner card is now ready for distributors and retail.

Source: press release

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