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Gigabyte GT-U7100 Tv Tuner Card Review

Gigabyte GT-U7100

Gigabyte has set new standards in the market by introducing the GT-U7100. This is the latest addition to this brand's huge lineup of extremely successful and popular products. It is an awesome TV tuner card that enhances viewing pleasure with its superb features.

DESIGN: The U-7100 has a sleek and stylish design that promotes it from being just another hardware component to a really impressive consumer device. It is extremely stable and durable. Also, it is small, lightweight and highly mobile. It has the ability to get excellent reception even while moving at a high speed.

COMPATIBILITY: This product can work perfectly in Windows 2000 SP4 XP SP2, and VISTA MCE. Its other system requirements are an USB port, minimum 512 MB memory (1GB suggested), Microsoft DirectX9.0, graphics card, sound card, CD-ROM or DVD-ROM, minimum 1 GB free disc space (for the time-shift function). It needs Pentium 4 2.0 GHz or similar processor for proper functioning. For viewing HD channels properly, P4 2.8 GHz is recommended.

FEATURES: This tuner card supports DMB-TH and is HDTV enabled. The product comes with an excellent user friendly remote control that functions with all the major PC TV viewing softwares and makes the PC more interactive. It supports Teletext and EPG systems and these features make it a superb tuner card and the TV viewing experience is simply mesmerizing. It can be connected via USB ports. Auto scan feature is available too. It contains the best TV player- Arcsoft Total Media 3.5.

FUNCTIONS: The user can store TV programs instantly or by pre-scheduling, as per his/her convenience. These saved videos can be transferred and viewed in iPods, PSPs, etc. Still-shots of TV program images can be stored as well. Live streaming of TV can be paused, and the TV time shift viewing feature makes sure that the user can switch between programs being aired at the same time without having to miss even a second of the airing programs on different channels. It consists of 8GL5, which is a 3rd generation TV tuner system. Free HD content can be viewed on the user's PC/laptop, with the help of this product.

EXTRAS: It comes with a TV dongle, an excellent and fully functional remote, a portable TV antenna, a TV signal adaptor, an installation CD and a user's manual.

Overall, this is an excellent tuner card with high functionality and consisting of user friendly, attractive feature .

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