With the digital switch having happened in the US, you can’t buy a TV Tuner card for your PC without a digital side to it.  The law governing this has been in place for awhile now.  The problem most people have is that the analog NTSC tuner is still needed for analog cable.
This need for two different tuners gave birth to the combo card which is exactly what the AverTV Combo G2 is.  Sporting one ATSC/QAM digital tuner and one NTSC analog tuner, the Combo G2 has you covered.  …

AverMedia today announced the upcoming AVerTV Combo G2.  The card combines one analog and one digital tuner into one PCI-E tuner solution for Windows Media Center.  The digital tuner is ready for both ATSC OTA signals as well as ClearQAM channels that you may be able to receive from your cable company.
The AVerTV Combo G2 (White Box) has an Analog TV tuner with Hardware Encoding and 3D Comb Filter and a High Definition Digital TV tuner all on one PCI Express card. With advanced Hardware Encoding, you will be …

I’ve admitted on the show and here that I don’t have that really in depth knowledge when it comes to different signals, codecs, containers, etc.,etc.,etc.  Luckily for us though, there is someone out there who does. 
We’ve talked about him on the Entertainment 2.0 podcast, as well as quoted his articles here and now, the Master of Media Center, Ben Drawbaugh of EngadgetHD, has posted a complete primer on everything you need to know about OTA and Cable HD signals.
From Ben’s article:
Typical for the tech industry that the term …