London, England - 4 October 2002: A tiny box that brings digital broadcasts to any TV or PC is set to revolutionise the set-top box market. Debuting yesterday at the Stuff Live! show, the Hauppauge DEC2000-t will be available in the UK from the end of this month. The device is the first ever to provide free-to-air digital terrestrial broadcasts to TVs and PCs, with sharper pictures, widescreen format and clearer sound. Priced at £129 including VAT, the DEC2000-t does not require a paid-for subscription, saving viewers £100's.
The DEC2000-t will receive the current twelve free-to-air digital terrestrial TV channels, which will grow to more than 30 free channels by the end of the year, with the launch of Freeview - a consortium of BBC, BskyB and Crown Castle.
In addition, with the DEC2000-t plugged into a home PC owners have a digital VCR! The USB port allows the box to plug into a PC and provided software turns the PC into a TV and VCR. Programmes can be recorded to disk and played back, or recorded onto a DVD-R drive for saving, and playback on any DVD player.
Hauppauge's "Digital Entertainment Centre" DEC2000-t is easy to install, requiring a regular TV aerial (within the digital TV region) and a SCART socket on the TV. Owners continue to receive the current five analogue channels while adding twelve new digital channels. The DEC2000 has digital audio output in the SP/Dif format, so you can listen to digital TV programmes through your home theatre system.
Future proof your digital TV! Using the DEC2000's USB port, a will allow you to connect to a PC or Notebook and record your favourite digital TV programmes to your computers hard disk. Play the recorded video back to your TV screen in full original digital quality.
The DEC2000-t is equipped with an "active tuner" to seek all available channels.
Taken from The Digital Television Group site at :
http://www.dtg.org.uk/
Regards
W.H.