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First PCIe Dual TV Tuner coming to market: VistaView Saber 2020

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Posted by rampy on Aug 23, 2006 - 07:52 AM

[1]Got the scoop on a new product coming to market early September. VistaView [2] will be releasing the first analog dual tuner PCIe (pci express) TV card [3] called the Saber 2020 [4]

Some quick features of note: It will be MCE compatible/certified for Windows MCE 2005. It's low profile. Dual tuners (duh!). It's hardware mpeg2 encoding of course, and is using the ViXS chipset, which is the same as the Nvidia DualTV card -- except again this card is PCIe instead of regular PCI. The retail flavors will come with some PVR software which notably includes PIP (picture in picture) functionality. I think that about covers all my notes :)

So far there's only been single tuner PCIe options on the market (notably ATI's TheaterPro chipset). It's good to see more options available to HTPC builders and to have more cards to put into these PCIe mostly dormant slots!

Larger picture after the jump [5] ( Digg It!? [6] )



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  [6] http://digg.com/hardware/First_PCIe_Dual_TV_Tuner_coming_to_market