Smallest TV Tuner Gigabyte E-8000 ~ Computer Hardware

Three days ago I’m not posting anything yet, it’s because I’m a little bit busy this day. And now let me post an article about TV Tuner. All of us know when we want play a TV channel on computer we need TV tuner to play it. TV tuner is one component to play TV channel in the computer and is also has tuner, remote, and antenna. In this kind of era, we’ve seen a lot of forms of TV tuner, there are USB form and also card form. If we use a USB platform the quality isn’t good enough if you use small antenna, but when we compare with card tuner it have a lot of difference.

And there’s problem come up when we use card tuner, which is because of the platform. The form is so big so it consume much space on computer and it can decrease the air flow and also the circulation. But, now Gigabyte give us a solution about this kind of problem. They launched E-8000 TV Tuner, and it half from the general TV tuner.

Even it’s in small platform it doesn’t mean it decrease the feature and its advantages. This TV tuner has a lot of feature. Such as noise interfering, high quality TV image, length adjustable antenna, support recording formats in MPEG1/MPEG2/MPEG4 and etc. Now, let’s discuss it one by one.

From the form we can save much space so it can combine although in mini-PC. And design also fashionable outlook so it’s good looking for our computer. this TV tuner dramatically enhances noise interfering capability and extension durability. The latest NXP chipset provides the best image quality when we play TV on our computer.

In the other hand, the antenna can be adjustable so it effectively improves TV signal receiving ability. Like the common TV, it also provide remote control that we can use easily and user-friendly. It also support Integrated Video interface, such as S-Video, Composite-In and Audio-In to connect with Multimedia player of Gaming machine.

And it can record in MPEG1/MPEG2/MPEG4 formats so you can play your record on iPod or PSP. For the other features you can see it below:

Instant and scheduled TV program recording
Support world-wide SAP and Stereo sound.
Support Teltext and EPG system.
TV Time Shift Viewing - Pause the Live TV
program or go back to the previous section without missing a second
Capture snapshots of TV images
Support HDTV 1080P signal input
Compact/low profile design - can be used for consumer electronics cases
Support Microsoft® Windows 2000, XP, VISTA MCE and Windows 7 MCE.

System requirement

Intel Pentium® 4 2.0GHz (or higher) processor or AMD Athlon 2.0 GHz processor (For the Time-Shifting function, Pentium® 4 2.4GHz or higher processor is recommended.)
One open USB 2.0 Port
256MB system memory (recommend 512MB or more)
Graphics card (supporting Microsoft® DirextX® 9.0 or update)
Sound card
CD-ROM or DVD-ROM player
100 MB or larger hard disc space for installation (1GB free hard disk space is recommended for the Time-Shifting function).
Windows 2000, XP, MCE and Vista MCE Service Pack 2 or update
Microsoft® DirextX® 9.0 or update