A DTV tuner/decoder card for PCs is shipping from ADS Tech at $12...
A DTV tuner/decoder card for PCs is shipping from ADS Tech at $129, the aftermarket accessories company said Tues. It described its Instant HDTV as an add-in PCI card that turns a standard Windows XP PC into a terrestrial…
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DTV receiver, with recording possible on hard drives or DVD/CD burners. Besides providing over-air DTV reception, the card acts as an analog cable TV tuner. The card comes bundled with SnapStream’s Beyond TV, which can produce overlays that provide information about the show as it’s being viewed, ADS Tech said. The application also lets users search for future broadcasts by title or keyword, and program them for time-shift recording. It also provides PVR-like functions such as letting users pause, fast forward and rewind live TV as well as recorded programs. The Instant HDTV card also comes with NeroVision Express, a DVD authoring program that automates the process of compressing the HD content stored on the hard drive for SD archiving on DVDs. The card is designed for PCs running Microsoft Windows XP SP2 or Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005.