D: Turning Your System into a Personal Video Recorder
You may turn your system into a personal video recorder (PVR) by adding a TV tuner box,
which can connect to your system through a USB connector, and its bundled software.
You can get one such box from NewSoft (www.newsoftinc.com). The TV tuner box of
NewSoft, compatible with the digital video broadcast television (DVB-T) standard in Europe
and the NTSC standard in the U.S., can be used in Europe and Americas. The TV tuner box can
process both digital video and analog video signals for HDTV and conventional TV systems.
The TV tuner box supports the following graphic resolutions: 1920 x 1080 (HDTV), 1024
x 576, and 720 x 480. The box provides both scheduled recording and time shift recording,
subtitle display, electronic program guides (EPG) on daily, weekly, and monthly basis. Once a
user calls up the EPG, the user can set up the system for scheduled recording.
In addition to powerful TV video recording functions, the PVR comes with a high performance
DVD burning kernel that supports all kinds of DVD format burning, double layer format
burning, over-burn and menu authoring.
The box supports such media formats as DVB MPEG-2 transport stream and MPEG-2 stream
because they are built with powerful MPEG Codec that speeds up MPEG trans-coding process
with high performance quality encoding and decoding capability. The TV tuner box is also
designed to provide high denition decoding capability for HDTV.