AVerMedia Technologies HD MCE A180 User Manual

AVerMedia AVerTV™HD MCE A180

ATSC Terrestrial Digital TV Tuner

Watch and Record Digital TV on your Media Center PC

► Watch and record free over-the-air Digital TV on your Desktop computer
► Windows® XP Media Center Edition 2005 certified
► Two in One ATSC TV tuner & Analog Video Caption Card
► TV Scheduler for schedule recording
► Parental Channel Lock-out

PERFECT FOR:

• Enhancing your Media Center PC to
watch free over-the-air Digital TV
programs

• Individuals who want to watch and
record high quality 1080i Digital TV
program at an affordable price

• Analog Video Capture with Movie
Maker or Media Encoder 9

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AVerMedia AVerTV™HD MCE A180

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ATSC Terrestrial Digital TV Tuner

Watch and Record Digital TV on your Media Center PC

FEATURES:

ATSC Terrestrial Digital TV Tuner Functions:

►Watch Live Digital TV on your PC with Windows®
XP Media Center Edition 2005

• Digital quality video with widescreen support

• Theater-quality audio

• Supports only free over-the-air Digital TV

broadcast

• Digital TV Programming Guide

• Closed Caption for ATSC

• Parental Channel Lockout

• Signal strength indication bar

Personal Video Recorder Functions:

• Pause, Rewind and Instant Replay Live Digital TV

• Playback Your Recorded Programs While continuing

to Record in Real Time (Time-Shifting)

• TV Recording Scheduler

Analog Video Capture Functions:

►Capture analog video on your PC with Windows®
Movie Maker

• Capture from Composite or S-Video source

•

udio thru RCA connectors input

Features Subject to Change without Notice
† Software Digital TV Decoding Solution

SPECIFICATIONS:

• Input frequency range: 54MHz to 864 MHz

• Channel bandwidth: 6MHz

• Channels assignment: US standard

• Input signal level:

o -80dBm to -20dBm (8-VSB)

• Input impudence: 75 ohms

• Modulation modes: 8 VSB

• Warranty: 1 year limited parts & labor

• Compliance: FCC Class B, CE

SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS:

• CPU: Intel

• Operating System: Windows® XP Media Center Edition 2005

Display adapter with 64 MB memory & DirectX 9.0 or higher

•

• Interface: PCI Slot

• Speakers

®

Pentium® IV 2.4 GHz, 512 DDR memory

PACKAGE INCLUDES:

• AVerMedia AVerTVHD MCE A180 Tuner Card

• Driver download at

http://www.aver.com/support/faq_aver_tvhd_mce_a180.shtml

Under Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005, there are specific hardware and software requirements to enable the AVerTVHD MCE
A180 as a separate Digital TV Tuner device for Media Center.

- A supported DirectX 9.0 compliant graphics adapter is preinstalled

- Users will need to have an analog TV tuner card (like UltraTV 1500 MCE, AVerTV PVR 150 or AVerMedia M150) preinstalled in the

system in order to get AVerTVHD MCE A180 to work properly in Windows® XP Media Center Edition 2005

- The Update Rollup 1 for Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005 with HDTV Support (KB873369) is required prior to installing drivers

for AVerTVHD MCE A180. More information is available from Microsoft (view Microsoft document)

- A Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005 certified MPEG-2 Decoder is required for proper operation of Media Center. Please refer to the

Windows XP Media Center Edition Partners site for details on available DVD Decoder component suppliers

423 Dixon Landing Rd, Milpitas, CA 95035

Tel: [phone] • Fax: [phone]

Version 1.10
February 28

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, 2006