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Compro's digital TV tuner card

videomate dvb-t

Compro has a couple of new TV tuner cards for PCs coming out that can capture digital (as well as analog) television broadcasts. The VideoMate DVB-T comes in two versions, an internal PCI card for desktop and an external card that connects using USB 2.0. We were going to write something about how the VideoMate won't be compatible with all that new broadcast flag stuff that will eventually be required for receiving digital television broadcasts. But then we looked into it and realized that it can only receive DVB-T broadcasts, which is a standard for digital television that hasn't been adopted here in the US (though it is used in most of Europe, India, China, and a few other places).