Looking for a low-cost way to join the high-definition world? The newest TV tuner card from AVerMedia may be just what you need. The AVerTV Bravo Hybrid PCIe card costs just $79.99 (direct), yet it incorporates some of the newest technologies. For starters, the card is built around a hybrid tuner chip—meaning it can reconfigure itself on the fly to act as either an analog or a digital tuner. Beyond that, it supports QAM tuning through a beta plug-in; even Microsoft hasn’t fully ironed out the bugs of its QAM support. And it can output in real time to an iPod.

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