VISTAVIEW Saber 2020 Dual Analog PCIe MCE TV-FM Tuner Card

Ever wonder why PC owners love Windows XP Media Center Edition? Here is one reason to jump for joy. Use your PC as a TV or video recorder. VistaView Saber 2020 turns your computer into a dual PVR. The dual tuner gives you complete flexibility to watch and record TV. You can record all your favorite shows, watch them when you want to or record them to disc. You can record 2 shows simultaneously or watch one show live while you record the other. Advanced Hardware Encoding gives you the finest picture without slowing your PC down. The Saber 2020 ?s hardware encoder can handle 2 streams simultaneously so your computers CPU remains free for other uses. The Saber 2020 is also a dual FM radio tuner. Listen, Record, Pause live FM radio.
The PCIe (PCI express) bus ensures video quality. With PCIe, other cards in the computer can not interfere with the video transport to the computer. Since the tuner gets a dedicated channel to the CPU, other cards can not interfere by ?stealing' bus cycles. The Saber 2020 comes with Microsoft MCE certified BDA drivers, which work flawlessly with Microsoft Media Center Edition. This combination of features makes Saber 2020 the TV tuner card of choice for both novices and power users. The onboard video encoder means that you can use older computers with XP and leading software packages to provide all the capabilities of the newer Media Center computers. Please check compatibility requirements (below) to determine compatibility. Easy installation of stable Microsoft XP Media Center Edition certified drivers Minimum System Requirements - CPU - Intel or AMD 2.0 GHz or faster; RAM - 512 MB minimum; Microsoft Windows 2000 (SP4) / XP (SP2) or higher;100 MB free hard drive space for software installation (additional space required for recording and timeshifting); VGA card/chipset with at least 32 MB RAM and full hardware DirectX 9.0c support; DirectX 9.0c or higher installed; AC97 c