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Avermedia HDTV MCE A180 whitebox MTVHDA18
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Great product...easy setup!
(5 out of 5) by D. French on Jul 7, 2005 (Colorado)I recently built a home theater PC for my living room. With football season coming up, I wanted to be able to receive high definition TV from free over the air (OTA) providers. After shopping around, I found this product, and although it is relatively new, I decided to try it, as it is half the price of the only competing product I can find, the ATI HDTV Wonder.
I have zero complaints. After following the directions on the Avermedia website, Microsoft Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005 (which this product is designed for) recognized it with no problems.
For anyone who is not familiar with home theater PCs, HDTV, and such, I will caution you...there is a lot to learn in order to get it all to work. A great resource for you is the Windows Media Center webpage from Microsoft: http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone/communities/mediacenter.mspx
Read the articles and check out the forums--there are many highly qualified people there who can help you with all of your questions about building, or modifying your own HTPC. Good luck!
I have zero complaints. After following the directions on the Avermedia website, Microsoft Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005 (which this product is designed for) recognized it with no problems.
For anyone who is not familiar with home theater PCs, HDTV, and such, I will caution you...there is a lot to learn in order to get it all to work. A great resource for you is the Windows Media Center webpage from Microsoft: http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone/communities/mediacenter.mspx
Read the articles and check out the forums--there are many highly qualified people there who can help you with all of your questions about building, or modifying your own HTPC. Good luck!
10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:
This works great for me!
(5 out of 5) by S. Asturias on Aug 24, 2005I can't believe how easy this card was to install and setup. It was as easy as 1-2-3. I plugged the card into my HTPC, installed the drivers, and that's it! I've been watching, time-shifting, and recording lots of OTA HD material and it's been great. And now that Avermedia has released a new driver that supports dual A180's, I'm thinking I might have to pick up another one.
The previous poster that rated the card with a single card is just plain wrong. For one thing, Windows XP MCE 2004 does not support HDTV; only Windows XP MCE 2005 does. I don't understand why he would be complaining to anyone but himself since he was the one who was mistaken. It's clearly stated in the system requirements that it's 2005 ready, not 2004. And Avermedia has absolutely nothing to do with his transaction. His only option would be to either return the card to Amazon or simply upgrade his Media Center to 2005. I think it's unfair to judge the card on something that has absolutely nothing to do with the card itself.
The previous poster that rated the card with a single card is just plain wrong. For one thing, Windows XP MCE 2004 does not support HDTV; only Windows XP MCE 2005 does. I don't understand why he would be complaining to anyone but himself since he was the one who was mistaken. It's clearly stated in the system requirements that it's 2005 ready, not 2004. And Avermedia has absolutely nothing to do with his transaction. His only option would be to either return the card to Amazon or simply upgrade his Media Center to 2005. I think it's unfair to judge the card on something that has absolutely nothing to do with the card itself.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
Works great
(5 out of 5) by sayeah on Mar 21, 2006 (New Jersey, USA)Easy installation. Works flawlessly in MCE2005. You do need good video card and CPU to decode HD content.
Overall a solid product for the price.
Overall a solid product for the price.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
Works well
(4 out of 5) by Jaideep Vijan on Sep 26, 2005 (Redwood City, CA USA)It installed without any issues, and has been working well so far (no crashes etc. for a couple of weeks). I have 2 working simultanesouly with Media Center 2005 using the recently released drivers with dual-card support.
The only reason I gave it 4 starts instead of 5 is that the tuner is not the most sensitive I've seen. I have an old Samsung OTA HDTV box that is able to pull in channels this card can't. This is not a major problem though, as I can get all the major channels in my area.
The only reason I gave it 4 starts instead of 5 is that the tuner is not the most sensitive I've seen. I have an old Samsung OTA HDTV box that is able to pull in channels this card can't. This is not a major problem though, as I can get all the major channels in my area.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
Good Product
(4 out of 5) by Ryan M. Fisher on Jan 9, 2007 (Wisconsin)Product works as expected, delivery was good. Used the software you can download from Avermedia, and that didn't work for beans, but I mainly got it for Media Center, so it wasn't an issue. Just wanted to try it out.