Dual TV tuners on a single PC card from Nvidia will engender more...
Dual TV tuners on a single PC card from Nvidia will engender more “place shifting” applications for notebooks, portable videogames and media players and other devices, the company said Wed. Its DualTV card is expected to be among a…
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class of such devices, like the ATSC minituner for laptop PCs that Thomson showed at Berlin’s IFA last summer and is expected to roll out at product briefings for the U.S. this month. Besides 2 tuners, the DualTV card offers personal video recording functions, Nvidia’s MediaSqueeze disc-space- saving technology, and support for Microsoft’s Windows XP Media Center Edition OS. The $169 card lets PC users schedule recordings of TV shows for viewing later, record 2 shows simultaneously or watch one channel while recording another, as well as pause and rewind live and recorded TV shows on the PC’s hard drive. The card also enables place- shifting. Programs recorded with the DualTV tuner can be transferred to personal media players and other portable devices with memories and displays, and live and recorded shows can be streamed throughout a home to Media Center extensions, Nvidia said. The MediaSqueeze technology lets users store more content on a PC’s hard disc or a portable device’s memory. Users can record shows at a lower bit-rate than normal or “transrate” previously recorded programs to a lower bit-rate to save disc space, without significant loss in picture quality, Nvidia said. The DualTV card was certified by the Imaging Science Foundation, signifying it meets the organization’s standards for home theater-quality TV tuning and recording, Nvidia said.