Asus a mis en vente la semaine dernière un petit bijou de “Combo TV Card” avec leur PE9400 qui est compatible avec les TV numériques et analogiques. Cette carte PCI Express possède un décodeur MPEG-2 intégré qui réduit l’utilisation du CPU et assure une bonne qualité vidéo en enregistrement et lecture. D’autre part, les PBP (Picture Beside Picture) et PIP (Picture In Picture) sont de la partie.

Les anglophones peuvent en apprendre plus via le communiqué de presse qui suit:

“High Quality PC TV Solution
With the ASUS My Cinema – PE9400 Combo, users can watch and record high-quality digital (ATSC/QAM) and analog (NTSC) TV programs on their PCs simultaneously. This card adopts the brand-new PCI Express x1 interface, which is faster than the default PCI bus (133Mb/s) in transmission speed, and offers up to 500Mb/s or an improvement of almost 3 times over conventional technology. The PE9400 Combo also features less CPU resource requirements through an embedded MPEG2 hardware encoder so that CPU loading can be dramatically reduced whilst guaranteeing high-quality video when processing transmissions. This allows users to surf the Internet and watch TV programs at the same time! What’s more, the PE9400 Combo comes with a built-in hardware noise reduction technology for the best video enjoyment.

Easy Channel Surfing with “Microsoft MCE Certified” Remote Controller
This full function remote controller offers users instant access to TV viewing, TV recording, EPG viewing, and DVD playing; all in the palm of their hands. Users will never miss a moment of their favorite TV programs anymore with the handy “pausing” of live TV programs.”