If you’re considering building a Media Centre PC, either based on Windows Media Center or a third party interface, your TV tuner will be an important component. TV is the most popular medium in the home and if you’re going for digital terrestrial TV, popularised as Freeview, it will also include all your radio stations.
To make full use of what Windows MCE can offer, you need two TV tuners, so you can watch one channel, while you’re recording another. Until now, this has meant slotting two PCI-based TV tuner cards into expansion slots inside your PC’s case. This is fine for a PC based on an ATX system board, but may cause problems with Micro ATX or barebones systems, which often have only one available slot.
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Nov 19, 2005, 07:37 AM
