Another HiDef Tuner for WMCE 2005

The Avermedia AverTVHD MCE A180 high definition TV tuner has become the second HD TV tuner to earn the certified for Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005 logo. The first was the ATI HDTV Wonder.

The FusionHDTV hd tuner card works in WMCE but it doesn't come with the certified for WMCE 2005 logo.

All three of these hd tuners requires the presence in the WMCE box of an analogue TV tuner with hardware MPEG encoding. However, there are some hacked drivers, called Kram drivers, that will cause the ATI HDTV Wonder to work in WMCE, although there are reports that the picture quality of the video from the analogue tuner part of the HDTV Wonder is rather poor.

There seem to be few suppliers, Newegg, Buy.com, and the Avermedia online store being three I know of. Note that this card is an OEM part.