Tuesday, June 7, 2005
VideoMate DVB-U2200 - A HDTV DVB-T USB Tuner
Posted by Filip Norrgard in "HARDWARE" @ 11:00 PM
According to Akihabara, a Taiwanese company called COMPRO introduced at Computex the VideoMate DVB-U2200 which is a USB 2.0 digital TV tuner. The tuner features:
Since there aren't much HDTV broadcasts over terrestrial in Europe yet, it it hard to see a big demand for this thing just yet. But, I expect things to change when the analog terrestrial broadcasts in Europe are turned off and leave more bandwidth for HDTV. So I hope this box will arrive in time to Europe for the analog switch-offs and the arrival of (true) HDTV.
Has anyone in Australia managed to see/hear what the price tag will possibly be on this digital TV box? Maybe even had the luck to see it in action? ;)
- DVB-T digital terrestrial television and radio stations reception
- Watch TV on your PC laptop or desktop with high-speed USB 2.0 connection
- Supports digital FM radio reception (not DAB type)
- Supports Teletext and EPG (where available)
- Supports 1080i HDTV and 16:9 wide-screen formats (where available)
- Supports all DVB-T audio formats and Australia HDTV audio formats
- High-quality MPEG-2 recording, timeshifting, and channel surfing
- Multiple still frame captures and remote control snapshot
- USB bus powered, no external power adaptor required
Since there aren't much HDTV broadcasts over terrestrial in Europe yet, it it hard to see a big demand for this thing just yet. But, I expect things to change when the analog terrestrial broadcasts in Europe are turned off and leave more bandwidth for HDTV. So I hope this box will arrive in time to Europe for the analog switch-offs and the arrival of (true) HDTV.
Has anyone in Australia managed to see/hear what the price tag will possibly be on this digital TV box? Maybe even had the luck to see it in action? ;)
