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Avermedia HDTV MCE A180 whitebox MTVHDA18

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Compatible Devices Desktop
Brand AVerMedia
Antenna Television
Remote Control Included? Yes
UPC 795522959959

About this item

  • Watch over-the-air digital TV and full quality over-the-air HDTV on your Media Center PC
  • Watch, record and save your favorite Digital TV programs to your hard drive for later viewing
  • Use the PVR and Time Shift features to pause, rewind and replay live HDTV
  • Connect your analog VCR or camcorder to capture uncompressed video data for editing on your PC
  • Supports free over-the-air ATSC signal 480p, 720p and 1080i, with wide screen support
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AVerMedia AVerTVHD MCE A180 is a full height PCI ATSC HDTV card for free over-the-air digital TV and full quality free over-the-air HDTV reception. It allows OEM/System Integrator to add value to their Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005 PC.

Enjoy free over-the-air Digital TV on your Media Center PC, watch, pause and record Digital TV programs, especially 1080i HDTV broadcast programs like NFL Football or the Oscar. AVerTVHD MCE A180 designs for Microsoft Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005 Operating System, it completes your Home Entertainment Center capabilities with High Definition TV viewing. Watch TV, or use the PVR and Time Shift features to Pause, Rewind and Replay Live HDTV so that you will never miss a moment of your favorite TV programs again.

Microsoft Windows¨ XP Media Center Edition 2005 Certified
Take full advantage of your Media Center Edition PC with AVerTVHD MCE A180. If is fully certified with Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005, watch free over-the-air Digital TV and take advantage of the PVR features on your Media Center PC.

Under Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005, there are specific hardware and software requirements to enable the AVerTVHD MCE A180 as a separate Digital TV Tuner device for Media Center.

  • A supported DirectX 9.0 compliant graphics adapter is preinstalled
  • Users will need to have an analog TV tuner card (like UltraTV 1500 MCE, AVerTV PVR 150 or AVerMedia M150) preinstalled in the system in order to get AVerTVHD MCE A180 to work properly in Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005
  • The Update Rollup 1 for Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005 with HDTV Support (KB873369) is required prior to installing drivers for AVerTVHD MCE A180. More information is available from Microsoft
  • A Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005 certified MPEG-2 Decoder is required for proper operation of Media Center. Please refer to the Windows XP Media Center Edition Partners site for details on available DVD Decoder component suppliers

    Record, Playback Digital TV Programs and Analog Video Capture
    With the AVerTVHD MCE A180 and MCE 2005, you can now treat your PC just like a Personal Video Recorder (PVR). Watch, record and save your favorite Digital TV programs in your Hard Disk for later viewing. It also allows Pause, Rewind, and Instant Reply Live Digital TV content. You can connect your analog VCR or Camcorder to the AVerTVHD MCE A180 in order to capture uncompressed video data to Windows¨ Movie Maker and other third parties software MPEGII encoder for video editing.

    Digital TV Recording Scheduler
    Pre-program your AVerMedia AVerTVHD MCE A180 to record a show days in advance. Or, you can choose to record on every Tuesday night at 7:00 p.m. for a month at a time. With the TV Recording Scheduler you can watch your favorite TV Program whether you are sitting in front of your PC or not.

    Digital TV Tuner Functions:

    • Microsoft Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005 software decodes Digital Transport Stream
    • Watch TV and capture video on your PC
    • Support free over-the-air ATSC signal 480p, 720p and 1080i (with wide screen support)
    • Fully Resizable Digital TV Window (up to Full Screen)
    • Signal strength bar indication
    • Parental Channel Lockout
    • S-Video and composite analog video and stereo audio input for uncompress video capture
    • Video capture resolution up to 720 X 480 (NTSC)
    • PCI Interface
    • Fully certified with Microsoft¨ Windows¨ XP Media Center Edition

      Personal Video Recorder Functions:

      • Record and playback Digital TV contents
      • Pause, Rewind and Instant Replay Live Digital TV

Customer reviews

3 out of 5 stars
20 global ratings

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A. Green
1.0 out of 5 stars AVerMedia AVerTVHD MCE A180 Hi-Def TV Tuner Card (White Box)
Reviewed in the United States on August 9, 2005
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I'm very disappointed in this card.I have not yet been able to get it to run. Apparently, even though I purchased my Media Center PC in 2005, it has Media Center PC 2004 edition and the card requires the 2005 Edition. Neither Microsoft nor HP (my PC's maker) provide an upgrade path to MCE 2005.

The people at Aver Tech support were most unhelpful, and bordered on rude.
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Pedro Teixeira
2.0 out of 5 stars Reasonable card, not-so-reasonable drivers.
Reviewed in the United States on September 17, 2007
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Reasonable hardware, not-so-reasonable drivers.

Just so it is all clear, this is a ATSC receiving card, which is the US way of spelling DVB, losing some features in the process.
Also, this is a BUDGET card (as used in DVB's jargon), which stands for, no video/audio decompression is performed on the card itself. All goes to the CPU. This, however, is the way Windows Media Center likes cards to be.
Finally, this card has no CI, pardon, CableCard slot. This does mean that you will not be able to receive value-added (conditional access) channels not even if you request your cable/sat company for a CA module.
This card performs to satisfaction in Windows Media Center (tried Vista, not XP), even with all its drivers problems (see below), so it is a good bet for that.
Drivers are BDA but of very poor quality! Apart from the card's own software and MCE, all other BDA-aware software I tried crashed on start, even DirectX SDK sample/test application! If you try it using SDK's GraphEdit, you'll also notice that a graph cannot be stopped and restarted - it has to be torn down and recreated, otherwise Aver filters will also crash.
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A R
3.0 out of 5 stars Easy to use but...
Reviewed in the United States on September 24, 2005
I bought this item knowing that it will work with a non-MCE XP machine. This is true. What was not true was that the card displays HD content. The maximum output for North American ATSC is 720x480. Nowhere near 1280x720 or 1920x1080i(540p). Other than that it works as advertised. A good value for the money even as a non-true HD card.
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James W. Petrie
4.0 out of 5 stars Lives up to other reiews I have read
Reviewed in the United States on January 22, 2007
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The card installed without problems. The HD reception is very good. The signal strength supplied by an indoor antenna placed in the Attic bring in many channels with a strong signal. I am 38 miles from the towers and still get good reception. The interface to the MCE operating system was straight forward. The only problem I have is a video error on one channel when recording HD in MCE. Avermedia Support has been very helpful in trying to determine if this is their problem or the MCE. The error only occurs on the ABC HD channel and is still outstanding as of Jan. 22, 2007.
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Honest Reviewer
5.0 out of 5 stars Works great, used several years
Reviewed in the United States on December 12, 2016
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I made DVR out of my PC with this card. Works great, used several years.
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Dan Wheeler
2.0 out of 5 stars Doesn't work as well as TV's built-in tuner
Reviewed in the United States on February 6, 2006
This card installed very easily and was able to set it up very well in media center but I dont think the tuner is very well built. When compared to my Sceptre LCD TV's built-in ATSC tuner during bad weather this card does not work well at all. The TV's built-in tuner is watchable during bad weather while the AverMedia card is not watchable at all using the same signal/antenna. I wrote to AverMedia technical support about this issue and they acknowledged that their tuner is not as good as a built-in TV tuner.
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Adam Rosenberg
4.0 out of 5 stars works well but requires more
Reviewed in the United States on January 3, 2007
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This card needs a better a computer than it suggests. I have an older P4 2.4Ghz with only 256mb RAM and it sometimes doesn't load properly because it seems to be too slow. Also, MS Windows Media Center requires an NTSC tuner in the US as well and this was not stated clearly before I bought this card. Still, it does a nice job when it works and when I get a new computer it will be great.
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Gregory Cannon
5.0 out of 5 stars Great HDTV tuner for WIndows Media Center
Reviewed in the United States on January 3, 2007
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We have tried several different brands of HDTV tuners in our media center PCs and we have found that the AverMedia A180 is the best card. We have no trouble at all with this card and it performs flawlessly on each system we install it on. I highly recommend this card.
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