Home | Forums | Article Search | Subscribe & Shop | Contact Us | Log Out Nvidia DualTV MCE Email This Print This View My Personal Library Heavy Gear June 2006 • Vol.6 Issue 6 Page(s) 22 in print issue Add To My Personal Library Nvidia DualTV MCE DualTV MCE $169 Nvidia www.nvidia.com CPU Rating: 3.5 Specs: NTSC version: NTSC M/N; PAL/SECAM version: PAL I, B/G, D/K, SECAM D/K, L/L; connectors: TV (antenna or cable) F-connector (NTSC) or IEC-connector (PAL); FM radio (antenna) F-connector (NTSC) or IEC-connector (PAL); direct A/V inputs: S-Video input 4-pin DIN (composite video via included adapter), line-level stereo audio stereo minijack x 2 Nvidia recently released a new add-in card, but unlike the majority of its products, a GeForce GPU doesn’t powered this one. In the GeForce GPU’s place, the Nvidia DualTV MCE has a pair of Philips TV tuners and a ViXS XCode II multistream encoder and transcoder chip at its heart. As its name implies, the DualTV MCE is a TV-tuner expansion card for consumer-level PCs that features two independent TV tuners on a single PCI expansion card, not to mention an FM tuner and a pair of S-Video inputs and analog audio inputs. The DualTV MCE offers a comprehensive list of personal video-recording features, along with a technology dubbed MediaSqueeze that helps save disk space. MediaSqueeze works by compressing recorded video so that it consumes less space on a user’s hard drive. I found that installing the DualTV was very simple. After inserting it into an available PCI slot, I installed the included drivers and software and was up and running in only a few minutes. Also, I should note that the card requires Windows Media Center Edition 2005 (including the Update Rollup 2 upgrade). Due to the fact that a pair of TV tuners equip the DualTV MCE, users can record two TV programs simultaneously from different channels or watch one channel while recording another. With the DualTV users can watch, pause, and rewind live or recorded TV programming, as well. The DualTV MCE can capture uncompressed video at resolutions of up to 720 x 480 (standard definition), and it can record audio in PCM format with 16 to 24 bits per sample at up to 48KHz. The Nvidia DualTV MCE includes a compatible, useful remote control; a handful of video cables; and an FM antenna cable. Installation was a snap, and image quality was comparable to competing offerings from ATI. by Marco Chiappetta  User Reviews Be the first to write a review of this product Want more information about a topic you found of interest while reading this article? Type a word or phrase that identifies the topic and click "Search" to find relevant articles from within our editorial database. Enter A Subject (key words or a phrase): ALL Words (‘digital’ AND ‘photography’) ANY Words (‘digital’ OR ‘photography’) Exact Match ('digital photography'- all words MUST appear together) Home      Copyright & Legal Information      Privacy Policy      Site Map      Contact Us Copyright © 2010 Sandhills Publishing Company U.S.A. All rights reserved.