I'm pretty sure at this point TV tuner cards outnumber actual PCs in need of a TV Tuner card by a ratio of 2-to-1. That's hyperbole of course, but there seems to be a new TV tuner unveiled every week.
With the release of Windows Vista, Hauppauge has released a new line of Windows Vista compatible WinTV products. If you ask me it's all starting to get a little confusing, especially when considering the fact that the Win-TV-PVR-150MCE currently sitting in my Media Center box works just fine with Vista.
Anyhow, the new cards are as follows:
WinTV-NOVA-TD-500-For the European and Asian markets, WinTV-NOVA-TD-500 is a dual tuner digital DVB-T TV tuner board that can be used in either a dual tuner or diversity configuration. Diversity uses two tuners to give better digital TV reception on a single DVB-T digital channel, while the dual tuner mode enables you to watch one digital TV channel while recording another digital channel.
WinTV-HVR-1800-For the North American market where the ATSC digital TV transition continues, WinTV-HVR-1800 is a PCI Express TV tuner for receiving analog cable and high definition ATSC digital TV. In a half-height PCIe board, WinTV-HVR-1800 has separate tuners for analog NTSC and ATSC digital TV. With Vista's Media Center application, you can watch a cable TV channel while recording high definition digital TV from another channel.
WinTV-HVR-1600-This is an analog cable TV and high definition digital ATSC PCI TV tuner for Vista PCs. On a single full-height PCI board, WinTV-HVR-1600 has separate tuners for analog NTSC and ATSC digital TV. With Vista's Media Center, you can watch an analog TV channel while recording high definition digital TV from another channel.
WinTV-HVR-1500-A dual format hybrid analog and high definition digital 54 mm ExpressCard TV tuner, WinTV-HVR-1400 brings NTSC analog and high definition ATSC digital TV to laptop computers running Vista's Media Center in North America. Watch and record either analog or high definition digital TV on your Vista Media Center PC.
The above cards will be available starting this month costing between $99 and $149.
