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Avertv MTVHDDUWB HD Duet (White Box)
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Works great on Windows 7 Release Candidate
(5 out of 5) by D. Begey on May 22, 2009I just installed my AverTV Duet on Windows 7 Release Candidate. The install took about 2 minutes total using the included driver disk. There were no updates yet on the AverMedia website, so I just used the CD.
I am using this with Windows Media Center. I ran the TV setup and Media Center detected all ClearQAM (unecrypted digital and High Definition) channels on my Comcast cable feed properly and even mapped every single one of them to the correct guide channel with no intervention on my part. This was a much different experience than I previously had with Vista Media Center with the TV Pack using a Hauppauge 1600 card where I had to manually assign about 80% of the QAM channels to the correct guide number so they would show up with the proper TV program listings.
Picture quality using the Duet is superb. The Duet was even able to clearly display one QAM channel that the 1600 under Vista would only show with very blocky artifacts. The dual tuners work properly as well. I can record 2 high-def stations at the same time with no problems, or record one and watch another one live.
For someone looking for a pure ClearQAM/ATSC dual tuner solution, I would highly recommend this card so far. If anything changes, I'll post an update.
I am using this with Windows Media Center. I ran the TV setup and Media Center detected all ClearQAM (unecrypted digital and High Definition) channels on my Comcast cable feed properly and even mapped every single one of them to the correct guide channel with no intervention on my part. This was a much different experience than I previously had with Vista Media Center with the TV Pack using a Hauppauge 1600 card where I had to manually assign about 80% of the QAM channels to the correct guide number so they would show up with the proper TV program listings.
Picture quality using the Duet is superb. The Duet was even able to clearly display one QAM channel that the 1600 under Vista would only show with very blocky artifacts. The dual tuners work properly as well. I can record 2 high-def stations at the same time with no problems, or record one and watch another one live.
For someone looking for a pure ClearQAM/ATSC dual tuner solution, I would highly recommend this card so far. If anything changes, I'll post an update.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
Use Windows 7 for ClearQAM support
(5 out of 5) by C. Arnold on Jun 28, 2009 (Seattle, WA, USA)Excellent card, as the previous reviewer mentioned. It is important to note that ClearQAM support works with Windows 7 only; in Vista the card is recognized only as an antenna dual tuner.
I put this card into my new hp Pavilion, connected to my Comcast Limited Cable, installed Windows 7 RC, and ran through the Media Center setup wizard. It found all of the unencrypted digital channels, and after Googling I found how to edit each channel so the proper information would display in the Guide.
The card works flawlessly and I am so glad that I skipped the more expensive factory installed single tuner for this dual tuner.
Note that this package does not include a remote, but any Media Center remote should suffice (I got this one).
I put this card into my new hp Pavilion, connected to my Comcast Limited Cable, installed Windows 7 RC, and ran through the Media Center setup wizard. It found all of the unencrypted digital channels, and after Googling I found how to edit each channel so the proper information would display in the Guide.
The card works flawlessly and I am so glad that I skipped the more expensive factory installed single tuner for this dual tuner.
Note that this package does not include a remote, but any Media Center remote should suffice (I got this one).
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
Great card for Win7 Media Center
(5 out of 5) by Michael P. Fettig on Sep 20, 2009 (Seattle, WA)I installed this card into my media PC running Win 7 RC 64bit and it has been running flawlessly for a couple of months. I have it paired with an Avermedia 780 so I have a total of 3 digital tuners. (I send TV to my Xbox 360 and a media center extender hooked to other TV's in my house.)
If you are running Win7 or Vista Media Center with the TV pack, you should be good to go to receive unencrypted digital QAM cable. If you are using Vista without the TV pack or XP MCE you need to install a plug in from Avermedia for the card to detect QAM cable signals,
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user name: beta
password: betatest
If you are a noob to tuner cards, QAM cable, and Media Center please don't flame these cards, they work just fine. Media Center does not automatically configure all QAM channels, yet. Took me about 6 months of reading and tinkering before I mastered how to use these tuners in Media Center. TheGreenButton.xxx is a good place to start.
My rig: AMD 5000+ cpu, MSI 790 CF mobo, MSI 3870 graphics, 4 gig ddr800 ram, Avermedia Duet & 770, WIN 7 RC 64bit.
If you are running Win7 or Vista Media Center with the TV pack, you should be good to go to receive unencrypted digital QAM cable. If you are using Vista without the TV pack or XP MCE you need to install a plug in from Avermedia for the card to detect QAM cable signals,
[...]
user name: beta
password: betatest
If you are a noob to tuner cards, QAM cable, and Media Center please don't flame these cards, they work just fine. Media Center does not automatically configure all QAM channels, yet. Took me about 6 months of reading and tinkering before I mastered how to use these tuners in Media Center. TheGreenButton.xxx is a good place to start.
My rig: AMD 5000+ cpu, MSI 790 CF mobo, MSI 3870 graphics, 4 gig ddr800 ram, Avermedia Duet & 770, WIN 7 RC 64bit.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
AVerMedia MTVHDDUWB AVerTV HD Duet - OEM White Box
(4 out of 5) by S. Young on Aug 24, 2009 (Michigan)AVerMedia MTVHDDUWB AVerTV HD Duet - OEM
Works great and is very stable on Win7 RC100. No frills, the white box version requires Windows Media Center.
Dual channel recording is awesome. Picture quality is excellent regardless of window size. Tuner pulls in the same OTA over the air channels as my standalone HDTV does.
On an AMD quad processor PC, the processor usage is trivial. No stuttering, even while I was rendering video with another program.
This product is very decent and operates as advertised, but if I bought again I would buy the version that has the remote control and the Avermedia application included to give semi-transparent window capability.
Works great and is very stable on Win7 RC100. No frills, the white box version requires Windows Media Center.
Dual channel recording is awesome. Picture quality is excellent regardless of window size. Tuner pulls in the same OTA over the air channels as my standalone HDTV does.
On an AMD quad processor PC, the processor usage is trivial. No stuttering, even while I was rendering video with another program.
This product is very decent and operates as advertised, but if I bought again I would buy the version that has the remote control and the Avermedia application included to give semi-transparent window capability.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
Great for Windows 7
(5 out of 5) by Randy Baker on Aug 20, 2009 (Portland,OR)Works great with windows 7.Picks up all my digital clear qam and hd channels from comcast.Does not pick up hd or digital scrambled channels.Some channels come up with the wrong numbers but you can change them to whatever you want.Using windows media center with the remote that came with my hp m8330f desktop.Don`t bother with the provided software as it isn`t as good as windows media center.Great dvr with 2 clear qam tuners.Just to clarify,i`m picking up basic expanded cable channels without a cable box.I pick up the locals in hd and the rest like tnt,mtv,espn,yada yada yada,in digital.AverMedia has alot of different products.The one i`m using is called the "AVerTVHD Duet-OEM White Box".