DVICO (FusionHDTV7 Dual Express) PC HDTV Dual Tuner ATSC/NTSC/QAM with Multifunctional Remote Control
DVICO's popular HDTV tuners take a big step up with the newly released dual tuner model for PCI-Express. Featuring the latest generation receiver chip, you can tune and record from two separate channels whether you're using an over-the-air antenna or cable service. DVICO's Fusion cards offer all you need to get up and running on your HDTV system, the FusionHDTV7 Dual Express is XP, MCE and Vista certified. The new 7th Generation card supports NTSC, ATSC, and QAM (64/256 unencrypted) and include the RT function to allow you to turn your PC on with the Fusion remote and power-on-PC scheduled recording. DVICO's Fusion 7 ships with low-profile bracket for integration into the smallest of PC chassis. Record, watch, and store both over-the-air and unencrypted QAM broadcast HDTV shows on your PC.
The XC5000 is the world’s most highly integrated silicon TV Tuner. This next-generation tuner offers state-of-the-art performance for both analog and digital reception. The XC5000 is the only Hybrid Global TV Tuner with an on-board DSP controller. This unique architecture achieves world-class tuner performance for all major analog and digital broadcast television standards.
The new S5H1411 boasts a higher reception success rate than other devices in multi-path environments where signal interference is high, such as densely populated urban areas; dynamic environments with serious signal distortion among many moving vehicle; environments with major signal phase errors because of cable retransmission and remote areas where reception is generally poor.
Remote Control Not only does it provide perfect control of all HDTV functions with the Fusion, you will also be able to control Windows VISTA MCE and many other application programs with this multifunctional remote control.
Dual Monitor Support You can do general Windows work through the main monitor while watching an HD program through the sub monitor.
Supports 32 and 64-bit Vista FusionHDTV7 Dual Express supports the industry’s first 64bit HDTV driver for Windows XP x64 edition and will also support the upcoming Windows Vista 64bit edition as well. The 64bit HDTV driver for Windows XP x64 Edition works in Intel EM64T series CPU as well as AMD x64 CPUs. This 64bit driver enables the FusionHDTV7 Dual Express tuner to work on 64bit Windows and will consequently allow users to seamlessly transit from a 32 bit to a 64 bit environment.
DXVA based VGA cards Pentium3 750MHz or faster with 128M memory Celeron 900Mhz or faster with 128M memory All ATI Radeon series VGA nVidia MX420,440,FX series VGA Runs on WinME/2000/XP or later Ultra-DMA66 IDE controller-HDD for recording Requires one PCI slot
Non-DXVA based VGA cards Pentium4 1.6GHz or faster with 128M memory All Nvidia MX series and ATI Radeon series VGAs DDR266 or faster memory Runs on WinME/ 2000/ XP/MCE or later Ultra-DMA66 IDE controller-HDD for recording Requires one PCI slot
Drivers
Conexant CX23882 drivers Dvico tuner driver Dvico full software HDTV decoder Dvico DxVA software HDTV decoder
Software Package
FusionHDTV HDTV reception and display Record and playback the HDTV files Recording reservation for upcoming TV programs High resolution still-screen capturing HD2MPEG converter: Converts HD stream to DVD or DivX Direct DVHS control/ recording/ playback
FusionHDTV QAM tuning is limited to only the non-encrypted channels available (generally the OTA local stations).