What is an HDTV Tuner Card?
Over the years, computers have become an important part of people’s lives. After all, where before, people only used computers for accounting or making reports, people now turn to them for all sorts of entertainment. Computers can be easily customized and upgraded, too. Indeed, there are many computer accessories you can add or attach to your computer to personalize it or keep up with the times. The HDTV tuner card is one such accessory, and one quickly becoming popular as TV shows march towards High Definition. What are HDTV tuner cards? HDTV tuner cards are devices which receive HD signals, particularly MPEG-2 encoded packets which it then transmits to a software application. In this manner, they work in the same way as HDTV tuner boxes or Set-Top-Boxes (STBs), which receive HD signals and displays them on the screen of your HDTV. HDTV tuner cards are different from STBs in many ways, though, mainly because HDTV tuner cards are inserted or attached into a computer while an STB connec
