NVIDIA DualTV MCE Review

Specifications

Package Contents

• NVIDIA® DualTV PCI analog tuner card
• NVIDIA DualTV Installation CD with MCE-certified NVIDIA® PureVideo™ Decoder, NVIDIA® DualTV WDM Driver, and User's Guide (PDF)
• Sonic MyDVD LE*
• S-Video Cable* : Connects to set top box or other video equipment
• Composite Video (RCA to 4-pin DIN) Adapter: Connects to composite video cable
• Composite Video and Stereo Audio RCA Cable* : Connects to set top box or other video equipment
• Minijack to Dual RCA Cable : Connects to stereo input RCA cable
• Coaxial Cable* : Connects to cable TV service
• Coaxial Cable Splitter *: Connects to cable TV service coaxial cable, CATV input on the DualTV card, and to another device utilizing the cable signal
• FM antenna cable
• NVIDIA DualTV Quick Start Guide

Functions

• Dual-channel TV reception and A/V capture
  • Source type: analog terrestrial broadcast, analog cable broadcast, and analog A/V signal from set-top boxes or other A/V equipment
  • Signal type: radio frequency (RF from antenna, cable TV, output of set-top boxes) or baseband (S-Video or composite video)
  • TV standards
      - NTSC board: NTSC M/N
      - PAL/SECAM board: PAL I, B/G, D/K, SECAM D/K, L/L'
• Dual-stream MPEG2 A/V encode with MediaSqueeze technology
  • Video: MPEG2 MP@ML, 720x480 (standard definition)
  • Audio: MPEG1L2
• Uncompressed A/V capture
  • Video: 720x480 (standard definition)
  • Audio: PCM (16-24 bit per sample, up to 48 KHz)
• FM radio tuner
• Internal splitter for RF with in-line signal amplifier - only a single RF input is needed for the two internal tuners
• 3D comb filter and 3D noise reduction with PureVideo technology

Minimum System Requirements

• Microsoft Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005 (including Update Roll-up 2)
• 1.6 GHz Intel® Pentium®4, Celeron®, or equivalent AMD® Athlon™ or Sempron™ CPU (2.4 GHz recommended for all CPU)
• 256 MB system memory (512MB highly recommended)
• Available PCI slot
• Graphics with 64MB DDR, DXVA (motion-compensation), and Microsoft® DirectX® 9.0 support (128MB DDR recommended)
• 20 GB free space on Ultra DMA (ATA/66) hard disk (40GB or more recommended)
• DirectSound-compatible sound card or integrated audio
• CD-ROM drive (DVD-ROM or DVD recorder drive recommended)
• Microsoft DirectX 9.0 or later

Connectors on Bracket **

• TV antenna or cable TV