Fusion III QAM HDTV Tuner Card Reviewed Build Your Own PVR Fusion III QAM HDTV Tuner Card Reviewed Build Your Own PVR : Fusion III QAM HDTV Tuner Card Reviewed
Posted by: rampy on Wednesday, August 18, 2004 - 11:07 AM

AMDPower site (which is currently being slashdotted, have pity) is running a review of the Fusion III QAM HDTV Tuner Card manufactured by DVICO. The DVICO site is severly lacking in userful prodcut info on the Fusions III QAM HDTV Tuner and the sites that they list as US distributors doesn't have much more info and is on pre-order.

This card, *should* allow you to record your digital cable without the separate box, which would keep the signal chain digital, BUT more importantly would allow for HDTV content broadcast via digital cable to be PVR'ed natively. Previously HDTV tuner cards only did OTA (over the air) terrestial digital TV signals.

I'm not sure how it works yet as I can't get to the deeper pages in the review. Is it using a CableCard? Something else? Suffice to say I'm real excited about the prospects of this card.

FALSE ALARM This card ONLY does unencrypted QAM/digital channels. I'm still very interested in the card and would like to review it, but I'm still looking for the holy grail PCI HDTV QAM capable card that perhaps uses CableCARDs for descrambling.

More details to follow... and read more for part of the text of their review.


Fusion III Gold QAM HDTV Tuner Card
Manufacturer: DVICO
By: Jack Kolesar 08-17-04


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