Originally Posted by BFever Multimedia Mike,
Looking to buy possibly a Theater 650 card when available but saw the review over at HTPCNews this a.m. about AverMedia's new card. Why should I buy the Theater 650 card over the AVerMedia AverTV Purity 3D MCE 250?
Linky.
http://www.htpcnews.com/index.php?op...=264&Itemid=26
Thnx,
Bfever
What about the Vbox 164e.
Cat’s Eye 164e
The Cat's Eye 164e is a revolutionary dual-channel hybrid HDTV receiver. Its two tuners allow you to view one channel while recording another, or simultaneously record two channels. Each tuner can receive either HDTV (ATSC) or analog NTSC signals, for complete flexibility
http://www.vboxcomm.com/product3.htm
(Scroll all the way to the bottom to view info on the Vbox 164e)
Drivers and documentation are already available for download and the actual card will presumably be released soon.
Therefore, functionally speaking, the Vbox 164e can do what the Theater 650 Pro can with respect to ATSC and NTSC tuning but the Vbox 164e can actually do it
simultaneously whereas the Theater 650 Pro cannot. Also take note that the Vbox 164e can supposedly be configured to run dual ATSC or dual NTSC,…..
simultaneously.
Pricing and availability are unknown at this time though.
***edit***
Almost forgot, the Vbox 164e is an X1 PCIe only card.
That’s unfortunate for many users but luckily my MCE systems all have PCIe slots. Hopefully they will come out with a PCI version and a USB 2.0 version though.