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HDTC PC Card

FloppyDTV

Perfect DVB-S/2 Solution for the PC

PC in a fast and hassle-free way? And if you consider that most PCs are connected to high-resolution LCD monitors while the TV sets in living rooms still have a long way to go before being 100% flat screen it comes as no surprise that DVBShop decided to add the FloppyDTV card/

Most up-to-date HDTV satellite receivers come with Ethernet or USB 2.0 interfaces that allow transferring recorded events to a PC for post-editing and storing recordings on a portable storage medium (DVD etc.). However, most of these receivers regard satellite reception as their prime business and thus do not put much effort into making interfaces very fast.

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Have you ever looked at the size a movie-length HDTV recording requires on the integrated hard disk of a satellite receiver? You might

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be surprised to find out that 10 GB is about the norm. So wouldn’t it be convenient if recorded TV or radio events could be transferred to the

FireDTV box to its product range. While all electronic components are fixed onto a single board in both products, data transfer as such


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