AVERMEDIA® LAUNCHES NEW HD AND ANALOG HYBRID EXPRESS CARD TV TUNER

Jennyfur sends in the following press release… MILPITAS, CA – (August 1, 2007) – AVerMedia® Technologies, Inc., the leading provider of digital multimedia and presentation technology, announced today the release of the AVerTV Hybrid ExpressCard High Definition and Analog ExpressCard TV Tuner for laptops. Utilizing the latest component technologies, the new AVerTV Hybrid ExpressCard is the perfect TV Tuner solution […]

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AMD Demonstrates Next Generation GPU with DisplayPort

PAPutzback is speechless about this 🙂  DailyTech The AMD demonstration had the next-generation graphics processor output to a Genesis Microchip DisplayPort receiver. Display manufacturers such as Samsung are developing new display products using the Genesis Microchip DisplayPort receiver. Samsung plans to release a 30” LCD display with 2560 x 1600 resolution and 10 bits of color depth next year.

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DL.TV Has the Skinny on an HDMI Capture Card

Haven’t watched the video yet, but the blurb states that there are some ease of use issues. Oh well, if it works in Media Center, I would definitely buy it! Even for the $250 price tag. DL.TV IN THIS DL.TV CLIP: As a low cost way of capturing HD video using the HDMI connection, the premise of the Blackmagic Design’s […]

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The Media Center Show #117 – Todd Bowra on Extenders

Todd Bowra….what to say about him. The bloody guy knows more about Extenders than anyone on the planet…now if only we could make him ignore that silly NDA he signed when he joined Microsoft! C’mon Todd!! Seriously though, Todd is one of the behind the scenes guys working an insane amount at getting the MCE Extender platform out there. Show […]

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AMD’s 690G chipset comes out for an encore

The TechReport…. erm.. reports that AMD has refreshed their 690G with driver and BIOS changes to broaden its appeal :). They now list the X2 CPU speeds required to get smooth playback. You will need at least a 2.4 GHz CPU to playback H.264 and a 1.9 GHz CPU for MPEG2. The Gigabyte motherboard featured in the article would have […]

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My turn — under $1k HD-ready HTPC

So let’s make this quick and easy, this little box has HDMI and is ready to have a Blu-ray or HD DVD drive added to it. For a little bit more you can get whichever flavor of video card, AMD/ATI or NVIDIA, you’d like to ensure smooth MPEG-4 AVC [H.264] playback from the latest batch of HD DVD/Blu-ray releases. Read on for […]

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