Avertv MTVHDDUWB HD Duet (White Box)

by AVerMedia

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• Product Dimensions: 9.8 x 7.2 x 2.8 inches ; 3.5 ounces
• Shipping Weight: 8.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S.
• ASIN: B00266P6G4
• Item model number: MTVHDDUWB
• Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (45 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank:
  • #24 in Electronics > Computers & Add-Ons > Computer Components > Internal Sound Cards
• Date first available at Amazon.com: September 14, 2004

Product Description

The AVerTVHD Duet will give your existing HTPC a “Power Boost” to higher levels of HD digital entertainment. It’s designed to receive High Definition Digital TV Over-the-Air (ATSC) or Unencrypted Digital Cable (ClearQAM*) signals directly to your PC! The AVerTVHD Duet is a dual digital tuner, with a single input, that adopt the brand-new PCI Express interface, which offers a stable and higher bandwidth tranmission environment than the traditional PCI bus. One of the great features about a dual tuner is that the user can watch one program, while recording another, or record two programs simultaneously! AVerTVHD Duet is certified with Windows Vista and XP Media Center, and is the solid choice to enable users to watch HDTV in the home or office right on their PC. This product supports High Definition TV viewing up to 1080i resolution with aspect ratios of 4:3 and 16:9. The AVerTVHD Duet will enhance your existing home entertainment center capabilities with High Definition TV viewing. ClearQAM is only for AVer MediaCenter and Windows Media Center TV Pack 2008; Specification:Input Signal; 75 Ohms TV Antenna Input; System Requirement:; For TimeShift and Record in MPEG-2; Intel Pentium 4 3.0Ghz with HT (Hyper-Threading) or Equivalent AMD processor ; 128M VGA card with Direct 9.0c or above; 512 MB RAM or above ; PCI-Express x 1 slot ; Sound card ; Uses Windows XP Media Center 2005*, Vista Home Premium / Vista Ultimate, or AVer MediaCenter ; 200 MB hard disk free space;Analog TV Tuner & Certified MPEG-2 Decorder Required; Package includes: AVerTVHD Duet; Low Profile Bracket; CD (Includes: Drivers, Quick Guide and User Manual); Warranty Card

Customer Reviews

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15 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Works great on Windows 7 Release Candidate, May 22, 2009

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D. Begey - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Avertv MTVHDDUWB HD Duet (White Box) (Personal Computers)

I 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.

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Use Windows 7 for ClearQAM support, June 27, 2009

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Bears (United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Avertv MTVHDDUWB HD Duet (White Box) (Personal Computers)

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).

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great card for Win7 Media Center, September 19, 2009

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Michael Fettig "Lumpy" (Seattle, WA) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Avertv MTVHDDUWB HD Duet (White Box) (Personal Computers)

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 & Avermedia Combo 770, WIN 7 64bit.

Update: Since C***ast encrypyted all the expanded basic cable channels, all you will receive with these cards are the local stations. I still use my Duet to tune the locals but now I am using an analog tuner in addition to capture exapanded basic cable channels tv from a C***ast digital set tob box (digital transport adaptor). It is just low-def, but will suffice until Ceton cable card tuner is available so I can get HD cable channels in Media Center again..