While I haven’t written a ton of reviews in my short time running The DMZ (and Entertainment 2.0 before), I’ve always had something negative to say about the product being reviewed.  Whether it was a part of the interface, the setup or what have you, there’s always something bad to say.  This time though, the only thing I can think of that’s bad to say about the GlideTV is that I won’t use it.  Don’t let that statement fool you.  It has nothing to do with the device itself …

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.  …

While searching for products to review, I came across one that honestly, I’d never heard of.  That’s not to say that I know every piece of gear on the market but more that when something claims what Hava does, you’d think it would be well publicized in the Media Center community.  Especially with a product that’s been around since 2006.  There are a few reasons why we who use MCE, as well as other HTPC software users haven’t heard of Hava, but I’ll get to those in a bit.  …