ATI TV Wonder HD 750 USB TV Tuner - Worldwide Compatibility Rocks
There's an undisputedly continuing trend people are switching to Netflix, Hulu and YouTube for TV entertainment. Yet traditional PC TV tuners still hold value for people who wish to take advantage of the PVR software to store a high-bitrate HD quality of the video for themselves while at the same time removing the ads. ATI TV Wonder 750 USB re-branded by Diamond is an external TV tuner that employs the the latest ATI Theater HD 750 chipset.
Unique to this TV chip is the ability to receive any over-the-air digital and analog broadcast signals you can throw at, including but not limited to ATSC, DVB-T and Clear-QAM (unencrypted digital TV). With this tuner, you can bring your laptop to Europe, and still be able to tune into any of their local HDTV stations. An on-board 12-bit A/D engine reduces noise, artifacts and color bleeding associated with analog TV reception. The TV Wonder 750 USB's TV guide is based on subscription-based TitanTV. Video quality largely depends on the reception level and the area you are in. If you have ATI Radeon HD 4600 or 4800 video card, its GPU-assisted acceleration even takes care of transcoding the TV stream to H.264, DivX or WMV without burdening your CPU. The TV Wonder 750 USB is a steal for $50 MSRP.
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Have a USB 3.0 Idea? Submit it and Win with Gigabytes Web Contest
Gigabyte is getting excited about USB 3.0 (who isn't?) and they are ready to share their new SuperSpeed USB motherboards with the world. For Free, if you submit the most popular USB 3.0 peripheral device. The winners of this contest will get a USB 3.0 motherboard and an external USB 3.0 drive. Gigabyte will act as a judge awarding points for creativity and design. Their top 3 picks will be awarded a motherboard and a SATA+USB3.0 SSD drive.
Gigabyte is really pushing the trifecta of a USB 3.0 speed, their own triple power USB ports along with SATA 3. There's a second contest where ideas are voted on by the public and the top 3 popular votes will win a motherboard and USB 3.0 external hard drive. By voting you are also entered to win one of three USB 3.0 motherboards being given away in a voter drawing. You may vote up to 10 times per day. Like all web competitions this is most likely a marketing push to grab email addresses and send marketing material. So expect to get some extra email from this. The contest ends April 30th so get your ideas out there now so you can start racking up the votes.
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Research Firm Predicts Flash Drive Sales to Hit Half Billion Mark in 3 Years
A recent treatise based on a the research findings of Global Industry Analysts, Inc (GIA) finds amongst other things that the ultra useful USB flash drive will continue going strong to the tune of nearly 600 million sales by 2015. This market group also cites the numerous poor economic factors that have caused this huge number to be a fraction of what they should have been if the economy were in better shape. The USB flash drive being almost exclusively consumer purchased, without a firm footing in the business world, was hit hardest by the fiscal challenges faced world wide. Consumers being quick to shore up their unnecessary expenditures to weather times of famine stopped purchasing drives in droves as they had before.
On the upside, the GIA also finds that the resurgence of new technologies and more creative uses for the drives to a better economy on the rise. New aspects of the technology being explored, like security or rich media have increased lately and may point to at least some increase consumer confidence in the technology. Let's hope all the major flash drive players can keep coming up with new creative ideas to keep people from going back to Yo-yo's and Pet Rocks.
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