PCIe and ExpressCard in LifeView TV-tuner range

[Bob Crabtree]

Improved sensitivity, lower power consumption and reduced heat output are the benefits that Animation Technologies claims for its latest LifeView TV tuner cards - courtesy of Philips' new chipset.

Unusually, the range includes five internal cards with PCI-E interfaces, along with a wide spread of ExpressCard models.

Check out the LiveView COMPUTEX showing in this COMPUTEX 2007 headline.

[Funkstar]

Shame they haven't got a dual tuner that benefits from the reduced power and heat.

Any ideas what that white connector at the bottom is for? Looks like one half of an AT power connector

(at a guess i'd say it was for development and that is a pre-production board).

[nichomach]

I can see the point of going for ExpressCard rather than USB, actually - EC's effectively a PCI-E x1 interface, so it's probably easier to implement if they're already doing PCI-E cards.