The 1st External USB HDTV

[Gregg Lengling]

Sasem Co., Ltd. proudly introduces a new product called OnAir USB HDTV. It is the first external USB HDTV TV tuner device that supports USB2.0 with PVR features in the world.

Goyang-City, Republic of Korea (PRWEB) December 24, 2003--SASEM Co., Ltd., a leading developer and manufacturer of analog and digital TV tuner cards for desktop PCs and laptops, today announced the external USB HDTV TV tuner device called OnAir USB HDTV.

The OnAir USB HDTV is the first external USB HDTV TV tuner device that supports USB2.0 with PVR features in the world. It is a software decoding type of HDTV TV tuner device that interfaces with a desktop PCs or laptops via USB 2.0. The OnAir USB HDTV, priced at US $249.99 and available in the US and Canada from Jan 2004, is designed to play live analog TV and digital TV or to record them on PCs and laptops as PVR. Its major technology's patents are pending.

The OnAir USB HDTV is very easy to install and connect with PCs or laptops unlike other HDTV tuner PCI cards. The other PCI type of HDTV tuner cards are limited to run only from desktop PCs, and it is difficult to install the TV tuner cards into their desktop PCs by disassembling the computer to plug in the PCI type of tuner cards on motherboard and reassemble the computer. Even some of PCI type of HDTV tuner cards are failed to install on a certain desktop PCs because of collision with the other hardware devices. In addition, the OnAir USB HDTV provides crystal vivid images of analog TV especially the digital HDTV by using external TV tuner. Using the external TV tuner provides free frequency interruption and better analog or digital TV signal reception compare to PCI type of HDTV tuner cards.

The OnAir USB HDTV is already earned the Microsoft WHQL logo for Windows XP that proves it compatible with Microsoft operating systems. In addition, it registered in Microsoft Catalogs, so it is easy to search its information and market availability in US and Canada. Moreover, the OnAir USB HDTV is ready to support the next generation of multimedia operating system, Microsoft Media Center 1.X (analog TV only) by simply plug and play. The OnAir USB HDTV has a full PVR features include the time shift. The time shift offers you to ability to record live TV while playing the live analog TV for pre-defined period of time. It helps users not to miss any part of live TV even though a user stay away from the TV sets for a while.    

The main features of OnAir USB HDTV are following:
- Support Full HDTV of 1920x1080 (ATSC)
- Real time recording and playing the live analog TV (NTSC) and digital TV (ATSC)
- File playback of recorded analog TV and digital TV
- Embed MPEG2 Encoder Chip to record the live analog TV to MPEG2 DVD format(720x480)
- Easy to create the DVD title for recorded live analog TV by DVD-RW
- Zoom-In: easy to zoom-in a certain part of live TV or playback file images
- Wallpaper TV Screen View
- D-VHS HD Stream playback or real-time recording(Windows XP only)
- Playback HD Stream File format (ATSC and Japan BS)
- Auto power on / off control by plug in or out of USB cable
- Provide remote control
- Bundling with InterVideo WinDVD4
- Lowest CPU resource usage to decode the HD Stream by using InterVideo's software HDTV Decoder
- Provide OnAir HD Editor: easy to edit recorded HD streams files

About Sasem CO.,Ltd

Sasem Co., Ltd. was founded in Seoul Korea in 1993. Since then, Sasem have been the leader TV tuner card market. The main business of Sasem is to develop and to produce multimedia computer hardware. OnAir TV series won the best choice award from every benchmark test of PC specialized magazine and vernacular daily new paper. At the survey of K-bench, the biggest Korean benchmark website, 63% of participants chose OnAir TV as the best TV Card to buy. Sasem considers humanity prior to technology and make an effort to benefit human life with innovative technology, to share knowledge with people and to learn from other people. For more details, please visit at //www.usbhdtv.com.
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