Hauppauge has released yet another TV tuner intent on making the tuner you bought just a few months ago feel jealous.The WinTV-HVR-3000 is the company's first "tri-mode" tuner, meaning it can capture digital satellite, analog cable, or Freeview TV signals on a PC. You can also listen to FM, digital DVB-T or DVB-S radio.
The PCI card features hardware MPEG-2 encoding, and comes with software for recording from a VCR or camcorder in MPEG-1 or MPEG-2.
While this isn't a "triple tuner" card as some sites are suggesting, it does allow you to capture video from three distinct types of sources. And if you're capturing a digital and an analog signal simultaneously, you can flip back and forth between the two recordings, so it's more like a tri-mode, dual tuner card.
It also comes with what looks like Hauppauge's standard IR remote. The HVR-3000 is available now for under £100.
