Digital Trends

Personal Video Recorders (PVRs), commonly known as TiVOs (think Kleenex and Xerox, brand names associated as product categories), have become the one of the hottest products in the consumer electronics world. Just as the Internet introduced us to on-demand access to information, the PVR has introduced us to on-demand television. With a PVR, we no longer need to schedule our time around our favorite TV shows -- we can watch what we want, whenever we want.

Since a PVR records to a hard drive instead of a tape, it's possible to save one hundred hours or more of TV at a time. You can easily delete old content, and never need to worry about which tape has which episode. You can even ask a PVR to record every episode of your favorite show but ignore the repeats.

While you can buy a TiVO or rent a PVR from your cable/satellite company, an increasingly popular third option is to buy a TV tuner card for your computer. These PC solutions don't require a monthly fee, and it's possible to take advantage of the hardware and hard drive that you already own. Today we'll take a look at one of the best NTSC TV tuners for the PC, the NVIDIA DualTV MCE.